With a celebrity host to manage, twelve hundred guests to keep happy and 3,600 plates of food to serve, organising the Globe Travel Awards is no mean feat.

So what actually goes into getting the industry’s biggest event of the year off the ground? And what’s is the weirdest thing a celebrity host has requested backstage?

We find out all from the lovely Linda Lucas, our events director. Linda and her team are responsible for everything that happens on the night from booking the host to engraving the trophies.