Mantis has formed a partnership with Mr & Mrs Smith, a global boutique hotel specialist. The partnership will see Mantis’ new booking engine channel being powered by Mr & Mrs Smith’s proprietary technology, which will offer hotel members increased sales capability, and consumers, an improved user experience.

Monica Witmer, pre-Opening Manager, Pikaia Lodge, speaks to Breaking Travel News at ITB Berlin 2013.

Mantis, a collection of privately owned boutique hotels and eco -escapes around the world, has been rewarded with five titles before a select audience of the industry’s leading luminaries and international media at the World Travel Awards 2012 Grand Final Gala Ceremony. The Oberoi, Gurgaon, New Delhi, India was the impressive venue for the red-carpet event, which was hosted under the patronage of Incredible India.

Mantis, a family run collection of award winning, privately owned, five-star properties located around the world, has picked up six trophies at the World Travel Awards 2012 Europe Gala Ceremony. The event took place at the new Conrad Algarve.

Mantis Collection group marketing director Paul Gardiner bring viewers up to date on the brand’s involvement as official sponsor to the latest Extreme Frontier series.

Charley Boorman will be returning to South Africa for his most intense journey through the country yet as part of the new Extreme Frontiers series to be broadcast on Channel 5. Following a launch party at the Mantis Collection-operated Cannizaro House in London, Boorman will start in Cape Town before traversing the Western Cape by motorbike, exploring everything it has to offer culturally, geographically and gastronomically.