Destination Editor - Travel Content

About Luxury Escapes

Luxury Escapes is a rapidly expanding travel company, engaging up to 7 million subscribers monthly by offering exclusive, time-limited offers at competitive insider prices. Our team is innovative and driven, pushing boundaries to enhance travel experiences for our customers. Recognized as one of the 'Best Places to Work’ by AFR, we prioritize employee experience with benefits such as daily catered lunches, an onsite gym with premium changing facilities, weekly social events, and extensive professional development opportunities.

Role Overview

We seek a Destination Editor to refine and enhance content developed by writers and AI for a designated cluster of destinations. This role involves developing in-depth knowledge of the areas you cover, verifying facts, elevating clarity and consistency, and ensuring all content is accurate and valuable to customers. Collaborating within a content pod, you will contribute your destination expertise across deals, tours, cruises, and editorial materials.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine and enhance AI-generated hotel deal descriptions for assigned destinations.
• Edit tour and cruise content using your understanding of itineraries, operators, and customer priorities.
• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of key hotels, destinations, travel seasons, and products in your region.
• Partner with the Senior Content Manager to align with destination keyword strategies and SEO objectives.
• Leverage customer data and content performance analytics to elevate accuracy, quality, and usefulness.
• Pitch ideas, draft, and publish destination articles—using AI for initial drafts and your expertise for final edits.
• Link editorial content with current deals and travel promotions.
• Stay informed on upcoming properties, offers, and content focus areas within your destinations.
• Communicate insights and recommendations to the Senior Content Manager and team to improve content effectiveness.
• Provide practical feedback and examples to refine AI prompts and editing procedures.

Candidate Requirements

• Previous editorial, content creation, or writing experience preferred, especially in travel, lifestyle, or e-commerce sectors.
• Excellent editing and proofreading abilities with meticulous attention to tone, detail, and accuracy.
• Capability to craft clear, appealing, and commercially oriented customer content.
• Comfortable integrating AI tools into your daily writing and editing tasks.
• Ability to analyze basic performance metrics and use insights for content improvement.
• Strong research proficiency and enthusiasm for mastering destination and product knowledge.
• Exceptional communication skills facilitating collaboration with Sales, Campaign Operations, and Marketing teams.
• Organized and adept at managing a steady flow of content within deadlines.
• Collaborative mindset, open to sharing ideas, feedback, and adopting new learnings.

Additional Benefits and Culture

• Comprehensive health and wellness program featuring access to an onsite gym, yoga, meditation, nutritious breakfast, and catered lunch five days weekly.
• Social and team-building activities like Friday afternoon gatherings with wine and monthly celebrations.
• Opportunity to partake in familiarization trips to experience the travel products firsthand.
• A lively and collaborative work environment supported by a passionate team.
• Generous discounts for employees, their friends, and family plus birthday leave.

Equal Opportunity and Inclusion

We encourage candidates to apply even if they do not meet every requirement. Our recruitment is based on your skills and experience without discrimination by gender identity, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. We foster a respectful, inclusive workplace and support adjustments during the interview process as needed.