FXExpress Publications, Inc., the family of publications including Global Traveler, trazeetravel.com and whereverfamily.com, named its 2024 winners for the FXExpress Traveler of the Year awards. This marks the second year the company has awarded these titles.
Eric Chiang © Details Nashville
FXExpress accepted essay submissions across seven categories:
Airlines: Most Trips in the Last Year
Hotels: Most Interesting Stays
Destination, Leisure: Most Interesting Trip
Destination, Business: Most Interesting Trip
Hotel Points: Best Use of Points on Trip
Airline Mileage: Best Use of Mileage on Trip
Affinity Credit Card: How a Card Program Helped Plan the Trip of a Lifetime
Sue Castorino © Details Nashville
Most winners were honored at an event at The Joseph, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Nashville, on Aug. 12, in conjunction with The Trazees awards from trazeetravel.com, and the other was celebrated Sept. 19 at an event at New York City’s Lotos Club, in concert with the Wherever Awards from whereverfamily.com.
Jonathan Fuchs with Miss Tennessee © Details Nashville
The following winners were named:
Airlines: Most Trips in the Last Year — Lori Lucas, who travels so much she has gained United Airlines Global Services status
Hotels: Most Interesting Stays — Jonathan Fuchs, listing these three top hotels from recent stays: Park Hyatt Siem Reap, Park Hyatt Auckland and Andaz Vienna
Destination, Leisure: Most Interesting Trip — Iris Childress, traveling by train from London to Edinburgh and staying at Witchery
by the Castle
Eric Ludwig © Details Nashville
Destination, Business: Most Interesting Trip — Tucker Axum, visiting Sarajevo and reinforcing what he already knew: We are more alike than different.
Hotel Points: Best Use of Points on Trip — Eric Ludwig, who planned a delayed honeymoon trip to Hawai‘i, 10 years later and with two kids, using points
Airline Mileage: Best Use of Mileage on Trip — Sue Castorino, using American Airlines and United Airlines miles to fly premium class to Italy for her birthday
Iris Childress © Details Nashville
Affinity Credit Card: How a Card Program Helped Plan the Trip of a Lifetime — Eric Chiang, who used the United Club Infinite Card by Chase to take his 18-year-old nephew to the Paris Olympic Games
At the Aug. 12 event, one winner was selected to win two business-class tickets on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. The winning name, Jonathan Fuchs, was drawn at random.
Tucker Axum © Details Nashville
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