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Most people plan trips as isolated events. Pick a date, pick a place, fill the gaps.

 

We start somewhere else: with the rhythm of your days, the moment your life is in, and the places that already pull at you. 

 

From there, we design not just a trip, but the pattern your travel can follow, with central themes shaping the feel of your experience.

How we Design your Travel Life

Most people plan trips as isolated events. Pick a date, pick a place, fill the gaps.

 

We start somewhere else: with the rhythm of your days, the moment your life is in, and the places that already pull at you. 

 

From there, we design not just a trip, but the pattern your travel can follow, with central themes shaping the feel of your experience.

Which theme inspires you?

  • Camelia Travel Design Studio | Luxury travel agency

    A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends. ​

     

    Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights. Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.  Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.  Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

  • This is a sensory storyline that explores the often-overlooked or unconsidered aspects of food, getting close to unique ingredients and learning from makers who define local taste. In Japan it becomes an immersion in seasonality and quiet precision, with fermentation, broth and regional produce guiding each meal. Seoul adds heat and momentum, where street culture and modern kitchens speak the same language of depth, built on long-aged sauces and expert technique. England offers a tighter link between landscape and plate, moving through farms, coastal craft and revived heritage flavours. Puglia brings it home to essentials, where olive oil, wheat, and sun-bright vegetables turn simple cooking into a doctrine - a true way of life.

    Camelia Travel Design Studio | Japan onsen luxury
  • Camelia Travel Design Studio | Japan travel luxury

    A honeymoon is one of those rare starts you only get once, which is exactly why it shouldn’t feel like you’re trying to “do it right” or cram in every must-see. It’s not really about collecting highlights or ticking off a list of places you’re “supposed” to go. It’s about setting the tone for the life you’re building together - how you move through the world as a team, how you rest, how you celebrate, how you make ordinary moments feel a little more meaningful just because you’re sharing them.

     

    Think of it less as a big production and more as a space you design on purpose. Quiet in the right places, exciting where it matters, and full of little moments that feel like yours. The kind of trip where you’re not rushing from reservation to reservation, but actually letting the days breathe. Where you have time to get lost on a walk, or sit somewhere too long, or change plans without it feeling like you’re “wasting” anything. The point isn’t to prove you had an amazing honeymoon. The point is to have one that feels true when you’re in it.

  • Camelia Travel Design Studio | Luxury travel design England

    New decade. End of a long project. Selling a company. Children leaving home. These moments matter, but they don't all need a stage or an audience.  Quiet Milestones are journeys that acknowledge those shifts in a private, precise way: a week tracing the empty curve of an English coastline instead of hosting a party: 

    time in a Japanese town where your days are shaped by small rituals, not meetings: unhurried evenings in a Puglian village, letting something end gently rather than abruptly: a few still days in a Korean hanok courtyard, giving form to a decision you've already made.
     

    Put simply, it's about creating a unique way to mark an important life moment.

  • Camelia Travel Design Studio | Personal travel designer

    Most travel is driven by novelty. New country, new city, new list.  Instead of chasing somewhere new, you choose to return on purpose, with more time and less pressure to 'see it all.

    Second visits unlock things first visits never touch: the shopkeeper who now recognises you, the walk that becomes 'yours', the restaurant where they start to ask what you'd like rather than hand you the menu.

  • Camelia Travel Design Studio | Italy travel luxury

    Travel shouldn't switch off the moment you unpack.

    Everyday Extensions are the ways we thread your journeys into ordinary days.

    That might mean a short list of Puglian recipes that actually fit weeknights, not fantasy weekends.  A reading list that follows the places you've seen in Japan.  A short piece of music from a Seoul night that you play before big decisions, to bring you back to how clear things felt on that trip.

  • A focused journey built for leadership teams, key clients, and turning-point work. One setting, chosen for privacy and pace, where meetings sit naturally alongside space to think - without conference-room energy or forced bonding.

    Days are shaped around clear objectives: a board or leadership offsite with decisions made, client hosting that feels effortless, a project close, a post-merger reset, or an incentive that’s mature and specific to your people. Quiet hotels, villas, or small cities that support attention. Good light, good food, early nights when needed.

    Camelia Travel Design Studio | Korea travel designer
  • Camelia Travel Design Studio | Private travel designer

    A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends. ​

     

    Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights. Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.  Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.  Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Japan personal travel designer

Seasonal Chapters

A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends.

Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights.

Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.

Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.

Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

Seasonal Chapters

A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends.

 

Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights.

Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.

 

Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.

 

Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Japan onsen luxury

Culinary Delights

This is a sensory storyline that explores the often-overlooked or unconsidered aspects of food, getting close to unique ingredients and learning from makers who define local taste. In Japan it becomes an immersion in seasonality and quiet precision, with fermentation, broth and regional produce guiding each meal. Seoul adds heat and momentum, where street culture and modern kitchens speak the same language of depth, built on long-aged sauces and expert technique. England offers a tighter link between landscape and plate, moving through farms, coastal craft and revived heritage flavours. Puglia brings it home to essentials, where olive oil, wheat, and sun-bright vegetables turn simple cooking into a doctrine - a true way of life.

Couple Embracing Outdoors
Camelia Travel Design Studio | Travel designer luxury online

The First Chapter

A honeymoon is one of those rare starts you only get once, which is exactly why it shouldn’t feel like you’re trying to “do it right” or cram in every must-see. It’s not really about collecting highlights or ticking off a list of places you’re “supposed” to go. It’s about setting the tone for the life you’re building together—how you move through the world as a team, how you rest, how you celebrate, how you make ordinary moments feel a little more meaningful just because you’re sharing them.

 

Think of it less as a big production and more as a space you design on purpose. Quiet in the right places, exciting where it matters, and full of little moments that feel like yours. The kind of trip where you’re not rushing from reservation to reservation, but actually letting the days breathe. Where you have time to get lost on a walk, or sit somewhere too long, or change plans without it feeling like you’re “wasting” anything. The point isn’t to prove you had an amazing honeymoon. The point is to have one that feels true when you’re in it.

Everyday Extensions

Travel shouldn't switch off the moment you unpack.

Everyday Extensions are the ways we thread your journeys into ordinary days.

That might mean a short list of Puglian recipes that actually fit weeknights, not fantasy weekends.  A reading list that follows the places you've seen in Japan.A short piece of music from a Seoul night that you play before big decisions, to bring you back to how clear things felt on that trip.

Seasonal Chapters

A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends.

 

Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights.

Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.

 

Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.

 

Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

Quiet Milestones

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Personal travel designer

New decade. End of a long project. Selling a company. Children leaving home. These moments matter, but they don't all need a stage or an audience.  Quiet Milestones are journeys that acknowledge those shifts in a private, precise way: 
 

a week tracing the empty curve of an English coastline instead of hosting a party:

time in a Japanese town where your days are shaped by small rituals, not meetings:

unhurried evenings in a Puglian village, letting something end gently rather than abruptly:

a few still days in a Korean hanok courtyard, giving form to a decision you've already made.
 

Not spectacle. not escape - just clear: quiet lines in your memory between 'before' and 'after':

Seasonal Chapters

A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends.

 

Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights.

Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.

 

Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.

 

Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Luxury Itinerary Designer

Seasonal Chapters

Return Journeys

Most travel is driven by novelty. New country, new city, new list.  Instead of chasing somewhere new, you choose to return on purpose, with more time and less pressure to 'see it all.

Second visits unlock things first visits never touch: the shopkeeper who now recognises you, the walk that becomes 'yours', the restaurant where they start to ask what you'd like rather than hand you the menu.

A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends.

 

Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights.

Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.

 

Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.

 

Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Food experiences Italy

Travel shouldn't switch off the moment you unpack.

Everyday Extensions are the ways we thread your journeys into ordinary days.

That might mean a short list of Puglian recipes that actually fit weeknights, not fantasy weekends.  A reading list that follows the places you've seen in Japan.  A short piece of music from a Seoul night that you play before big decisions, to bring you back to how clear things felt on that trip.

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Design your travel life

Everyday Extensions

Everyday Extensions

Travel shouldn't switch off the moment you unpack.

Everyday Extensions are the ways we thread your journeys into ordinary days.

That might mean a short list of Puglian recipes that actually fit weeknights, not fantasy weekends.  A reading list that follows the places you've seen in Japan.A short piece of music from a Seoul night that you play before big decisions, to bring you back to how clear things felt on that trip.

Seasonal Chapters

A single journey shaped around one season, catching a place when its colours, light and daily rhythms are most alive. The focus is the season itself - how it changes the streets, the food, the landscape, and the way each day begins and ends.

 

Winter might mean stillness in a Japanese ryokan, hot springs and early nights.

Spring could be countryside walks in England, blossom in village lanes and long pub lunches.

 

Late summer might belong to Puglia: stone towns, warm evenings, tables that fill slowly.

 

Autumn could be Seoul or Busan, markets and city parks where the air shifts but the pace stays gentle.

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Corporate hospitality designer

Executive Residencies

A focused journey built for leadership teams, key clients, and turning-point work. One setting, chosen for privacy and pace, where meetings sit naturally alongside space to think - without conference-room energy or forced bonding.

Days are shaped around clear objectives: a board or leadership offsite with decisions made, client hosting that feels effortless, a project close, a post-merger reset, or an incentive that’s mature and specific to your people. Quiet hotels, villas, or small cities that support attention. Good light, good food, early nights when needed.

Not a trip bolted onto an agenda - an agenda designed to travel well.

Camelia Travel Design Studio | Online travel designer

Looking for something different?

For travellers who want a trip with a point of view - shaped by a single, defining thread that changes everything: a craft, a landscape, a sound, a rhythm after dark.

Follow ceramics studios and hot kilns instead of landmarks. Track a coastline by small boats, long lunches, and rooms that face the weather. Go all-in on one beautiful obsession - modern architecture, jazz basements and listening rooms, textile houses, vineyards with a story. Or design the days around the night: food, atmosphere, late calm, and cities at their quietest.

Off-menu, deeply considered, and impossible to mistake for anyone else’s.

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