Varun Sharma
Presenter of INSIDE LUXURY TRAVEL
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Varun caught the travel bug from his parents. Every summer while growing up, they used to pack up an estate car and drive round Europe taking in the sights, sounds, smells ... & hotels!
Varun's journalistic flair and magnetic personality were spotted early on by the BBC, when as a fresh graduate in 1994; he was selected as one of eight from several thousand media hopefuls to join the BBC National News Trainee Scheme. Here he was trained in every aspect of bi-media journalism, working on BBC television's Business Breakfast, Working Lunch, World Business, Newsround and Political Units.
His presenting career took-off in 1996, when he graduated from the BBC to become lifestyle presenters on Bloomberg Television and on "Bloomberg on the Money" for Talk Radio. He held this role for three years before going freelance. Varun's freelance career has included reporting on London Tonight and presenting on BBC World News.
In 2000, he set up hugely successful The Luxury Travel Show which still airs in over 50 countries around the world.
After a year editing a luxury lifestyle magazine for the spa brand Ligne St Barth in 2005, Varun started planning a new television series under the banner of Inside Luxury Travel.
He and his team have spent much of 2007 on the road - producing "Inside Luxury Travel with Varun Sharma" - a luxury travelogue and "Inside Luxury Travel with Varun Sharma: The Finest Collection" that looks at the best hotels in any one location. The team has gained unique access to some of the greatest and camera-shy hotels & resorts in the world - including The Ritz in London, Hotel de Paris in Monaco and the Casa Casurina in Miami.
2007 took the team to Monaco, London, Miami, Los Angeles, Hong Kong & Tokyo ... with much more to come in 2008...
Happiness for Varun is a hip-flask of single malt, a fine cigar, on a golf course ... accompanied by his pup Gemima!
To get even more first class information and tips on luxury travel, be sure to tune into INSIDE LUXURY TRAVEL – THE FINEST WITH VARUN SHARMA exclusively on Travel Channel.