About Me

Travel has been part of me since I was little. At 9 months old, I took my first intercontinental flight, and by age 6, I had already moved 5 times and lived on 2 different continents. Today, I can count 13 different homes, 3 countries lived in, 4 continents crossed, over 27 nations visited, and 3 languages spoken. I love warm countries, and you could say a swimsuit is my uniform. These days, I'm based in Italy, my home country, but the pull of travel has never really stopped.

From travel coordinator to travel designer

My path didn't start behind a desk, but out in the field: I spent years working as a coordinator in the tourism industry for a well-known Italian tour operator, handling pre-trip organization, on-the-ground operations with groups, and real-time problem-solving. That's where I learned what no catalogue can teach — how a trip's operations really work behind the scenes, which details make the difference between an ordinary experience and one you remember for years, and how to stay clear-headed when something goes wrong at the last minute.

That experience is why, today, when I design an itinerary, I don't work on hearsay. I know which questions to ask a property before recommending it, what to check to understand whether an area suits a group or a family, and I can tell the difference between a brochure promise and a property that actually delivers on it.

The more I coordinated, the more experience I gained, which led me to design my own itineraries as a Travel Designer and manage them as a Travel Producer for a major tour operator in Italy.

Why "travel designer"

I design tailor-made itineraries — that's the work of a travel designer: listening, research, building an experience shaped around the person who will live it. But my role goes beyond the design on paper: as a travel producer, I take care of every detail that makes an experience coherent and well-orchestrated from start to finish, backed by reliable information and contacts you can count on.

Why the swimsuit

It's not a pose. It's a summary of how I work: I travel to truly understand the places I talk about, not to describe them from a distance. The Maldives, Malta, Madagascar, the UAE — the places you find in my itineraries are places I've been through myself, not just looked up online. When I suggest something to you, it's because I've experienced it firsthand, or verified it with the same care I'd want my own trip to be treated with.

When I'm not designing
I'm probably planning my own. Travel, for me, isn't a break between one job and the next: it's the job, and it's also the reason I'm so good at it. If you have an important trip in mind and want someone to think it through with the same care they'd bring to living it, I'm here.
Write to me here or follow me on Instagram @adaia_eden for a more casual look at where I am right now.

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About Me

From travel coordinator to travel designer

Why "travel designer"

Why the swimsuit

When I'm not designing

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