Emma Holmes

My love of travel started with an interrailing trip across Europe after university. That was it — I’d caught the bug, and it’s shaped everything since.

In my early twenties, I worked my way around New Zealand, Australia and Canada on working holiday visas, which gave me the chance to live in each country properly rather than just pass through. I rounded things off with a long backpacking trip through South East Asia, following the classic route before heading home to the UK and starting my career in travel.

Since then, I’ve worked with every kind of traveller you can imagine: students heading off on their first big adventure, couples planning honeymoons, people taking a sabbatical from busy careers, and travellers looking for something a bit more special later in life. The part I enjoy most is getting to know what someone really wants from a trip and helping shape it into something that feels right for them.

I’ve now visited more than 60 countries, and the list keeps growing. For me, travel is about experiencing different cultures, seeing landscapes you can’t quite believe are real, and, of course, eating very well along the way.