Tag: travel specialist
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Loving our Favorite Places from Afar
How do we support the places we love when a crisis hits? It is peak foliage peeping season and one of my favorite places in the past to peep has been in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Asheville, North Carolina. In fact, I have sent clients there to visit and experience all that…
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Autumn in Normandy: A Journey Through the Landscape that Inspired French Impressionism
As the leaves turn to shades of gold, burnt orange, and deep red, Normandy transforms into a palette of colors that seem to have been conjured straight from an Impressionist painting. There’s a palpable magic in the air during the fall—a perfect season to explore the region known not only for its historic landmarks and…
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My 2024 Virtuoso Travel Week Takeaways
This year I returned to Virtuoso Travel Week in Vegas for a deep dive on Luxury travel, redefined. As you may already know, Virtuoso travel week brings together more than 2,000 hotels, resorts, tour operators, and more – all in the name of helping advisors like myself to provide one-of-a-kind travel experiences are for my…
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Business Insider Article Announces Travel Agents are Back
This blog post is a repost of a recent Business Insider Article on how Travel Agents (in my case, I am a travel designer, as I plan out all the details from pre-travel planning throughout the trip and post-travel follow-up) are making a comeback with Gen Z and Millennials leading the way. It turns out…
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Beyond Safari in South Africa: food, wine, art and fashion and beautiful scenery!
African Adventures Part 4 When people think of South African travel, they often think of the traditional safari: looking for big game and staying in a safari camp. While South Africa offers some of the best safari experiences (stay tuned for future blog post), it also offers some of the most amazing food, wine, art,…
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Travel by Rail and take it all in: Southern African Adventures Part 3
There are many cases to be made for rail travel. This time of year, one might be inspired by the popular Christmas movie: The Polar Express. There is also growing interest in the Hogwarts Express (which is actually a train ride you can take in Scotland!) I myself have been feeling rail travel lately and…
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Southern African Adventures Part 1: Journey to Jo’Burg
Johannesburg has a bad reputation; not totally undeserved mind you. However, when traveling to South Africa or anywhere in Southern Africa, chances are very high you will land in this “City of Gold” or i-Goli. Many people choose to skip their visit to this city in favor of the wilder-side of South Africa. However, if…
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New Requirements for Travel to Europe in 2025
The ETIAS explained………… Not sure if you have heard the news, but starting in May 2025 Americans will need what is called an ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) approval before entering into 30 European countries. So what does this all mean and how will it affect your travels in the future? Here are…
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Top Virtuoso Travel Week Takeaways
While I have been back from Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas for a few weeks now, it has taken me this long just to process all the information I gathered and follow-up with the new connections I made so that I can actually share some of my whirlwind week with all of you. Virtuoso Travel Week…
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An Epic Adventure to Southern Africa
I recently returned from an epic trip and return “home” to a place near and dear to my heart: South Africa (and surrounds). I had lived and worked there on two separate occasions and stayed with two different families, living as their “daughter” in both…and I had not returned for 16 years. It wasn’t because…
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