A buyout of Massimo Bottura’s impossible-to-secure Osteria Francescana is easy enough for this team, but they’ll also happily supply a curated list of restaurants to your tastes. Portuesi co-owns an Italian cooking school in NYC and thus certainly knows his stuff. Hungry for Italy? Authentic Explorations is a go-to for any gourmet keen to indulge in truffles, bresaola and Barolo, among other Italian delicacies. Image Credit: Courtesy of Authentic Explorations Gary Portuesi & Jennifer Schwartz, Authentic Explorations “My clients always get the best suite pre-blocked,” he says, “I often handpick it myself.” From his base in San Diego, Calif., Clifford works worldwide and he can as comfortably score you a last-minute Christmas vacay to Uxua in Trancoso as get you to Iceland’s Hotel Husafell in peak season. Over that time, he’s developed a particular reputation for catering to LGBTQ+ travelers. John Clifford has almost four decades of experience as a trip designer for high-net-worth folk. John Clifford, International Travel Management Gray combines thrilling, adrenaline-powered programming with much-needed indulgence, whether that’s organizing biking in the mountains of Mallorca or chartering a fishing expedition in the waters off Chile.
Few manage to design and book high-end active trips with more finesse than the Canadian, who lives in Santa Monica, Calif. If you’re outdoorsy, ready for anything and prepared to sweat, call Cari Gray.
The firm’s also offering Octopus, the renowned 413-foot explorer yacht owned by the late Paul Allen, for charter in the polar reaches.
If you want a private trip to Antarctica, there may be no team better to organize it: Henry holds the world record for kite-skiing to the Pole of Inaccessibility, and Cookson Adventures was the first private company to take a submersible to Antarctica. He’s carved out a niche that focuses on a small number of elaborate adventures a few dozen custom itineraries are developed on demand each year. Henry Cookson worked as a horse-riding safari guide in Africa before establishing his London-based firm. Image Credit: Courtesy of Cookson Adventures It was an early champion of sustainability: The firm is committed to offsetting the carbon impact of its own research trips via CommuniTree, a Nicaraguan reforestation project (clients can sign up, too). The 25-strong, UK-based agency, steered by the three-decade veteran Wilmot-Sitwell, is known for deftly combining adventure travel-think long-haul jaunts to hard-to-reach Asian and African sites-with no-beat-missed luxury. Image Credit: AJ Heath/Courtesy of Christopher Wilmot-Sitwell Christopher Wilmot-Sitwell, Cazenove & Loyd If you’re traveling this year, don’t leave home without contacting one of them.
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We’ll be rolling out a series of new initiatives with them, as well as featuring their expertise and insights regularly. This inaugural list of master operators, presented below in no particular order, will be refreshed and refined every year.
There are fewer than two dozen, nearly all of them specialists in certain regions or types of journeys. To celebrate them, and to help you, we have brought them together under the banner of Travel Masters. Only a handful of operators worldwide, however, have the expertise, clout and ambition to make the unimaginable real. There are hundreds of travel specialists, after all, most of whom will argue convincingly that they have contacts and connections to open doors around the globe. It can be hard to know who to trust to create your dream adventure or even a jaunt back to your favorite destination. The difference between a good trip and a great one-perhaps a life-changing one-is so often about tapping the right people to help plan it. Travel can be both profound and transformative.
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