Luxury Travel + Shopping = iTravel iShop.com

You love to travel. You love to shop. Why not do both with a little help from iTravel iShop – the first luxury travel website dedicated to the sport of shopping.

Recently lauded by Wall Street Journal Europe as one of the Travel Blogs That Are Worth The Trip, they highlight a different city each week, featuring news about the best new restaurants and bars, stylish places to stay, and where to shop. Each city is broken down by outdoor markets, best shopping streets, top shops, and what to buy (and where to refuel), and some of the world’s most luxe hotels and resorts are also reviewed, including Raffles Singapore, Four Seasons Tokyo, The Imperial New Delhi, The Viceroy in Santa Monica, and Byblos Saint-Tropez. The Shop Talk section includes chats with stylish globetrotters such as jewelry designer Barry Kieselstein-Cord, socialite/fashion designer Tory Burch, hotelier Grace Leo-Andrieu and designer Karim Rashid - about where they travel, shop, stay and dine, and party after-hours.

However, what makes iTravel iShop special is that it’s edited and written by hardcore shoppers with an incurable travel bug. In order to suss out the world’s best shops, restaurants and hotels, Founders Christina Valhouli and John Vipond completed a Shop Around the World in 80 Days reconnaissance trip, covering nine countries, 16 cities, 22 hotels and 32,500 miles.

Highlights:
– where to score the best custom-made suits in Shanghai
- the best adventure in New Zealand (navigating a Class 5 rapids on the Wairoa river)
- the best meal (Fire at The Park New Delhi and T8 in Shanghai)
- the most stylish place to max out your credit card (Hong Kong or New York)
- the most valuable thing a traveler can bring with (your own toilet paper)

Lowlights:
– the “scariest” meal: viscous lamb soup in Beijing “which was like a biology lesson in a bowl (think hairy green stomach lining).”

Your passport to great travel and even better shopping awaits at iTraveliShop.com.

(Main Photo: Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury)

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