James Dunford Wood

Founder of Europe's first boutique hotel booking website, Travelintelligence.com, in 2000 (bought by Travelzoo in 2013), James is a director and co-owner of The Hotel Guru, and co-founder of Ometria. James has spent much of his life travelling: from early voyages across the sands of the Sahara and up the Niger to Timbuktou, to one of the last of the 'Magic Buses' to run the route from the Charing Cross Road to Delhi, from jail in Morocco to the snows of Kilimanjaro. He has a passion for hotels and places to stay of character, and has reviewed nearly 1000 in the past 15 years.