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From Vietnam to Cornwall: Audley founder's latest travel project

Luxury
April Hutchinson
24 March 2021

Craig Burkinshaw’s journey towards creating Audley Travel may have started out with an advert in TTG to take tours around Vietnam 25 years ago, but now he’s working on something closer to home as he launches Three Mile Beach in Cornwall. 

Craig Burkinshaw and Joanne Le Bon are starting a business in Cornwall

Craig Burkinshaw strikes me as someone who has what my parents used to call “ants in his pants”; in this context, an irrepressible curiosity for the world and compulsion to keep busy and keep pushing himself.

He started Audley Travel just as I was getting into travel journalism, yet this is the first time our paths have ever crossed, albeit only via Zoom. Now, far from talking about the stresses of running an international tour operation, we speak at a stage when he is branching out into domestic tourism.