PRESS RELEASE
LUXURY TRAVEL VETERANS ANNOUNCE FORMATION OF WORLDS AWAY TRAVEL, A NEW MODERN TRAVEL COLLECTIVE
New luxury travel group becomes independent affiliate of Virtuoso® Agency Travel Edge – North America’s Premiere Luxury Travel Company
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - New York, NY February 8, 2021 - Four seasoned travel veterans – Heather Solish, Ania M. Wroblewska, Jennifer Anderson and Jackie Cittone Magid – have joined forces to create a new luxury travel company, Worlds Away Travel LLCP. As independent luxury travel consultants under the same former Virtuoso host company in New York City, each join with their own established independent travel business.
“COVID created an unforeseen opportunity for us to step back and reevaluate our businesses, assessing how we could be more productive and create more value to our clients. We all collaborated often and had all these amazing ideas we wanted to implement” says Heather.
“We realized pretty quickly that establishing our own company as equal partners would be much more powerful than working in silos. Pooling our resources, leveraging our different skill sets and contributing our different areas of expertise allows us to work smarter and more productively. With two law degrees and two MBAs between us, we each have a strong management ethic. But we also have a lot of fun.” Jennifer continued.
“The new umbrella company, Worlds Away Travel, will be a modern travel collective in that it enables us to grow our business in ways that are a priority for us, such as building a hosting platform for ICs, expanding a donor travel arm, and curating more original travel content while continuing to create extraordinary, personalized travel experiences for discerning clients” added Ania.
“Even though we will each retain our independent luxury travel businesses and identities to our clients, we are very much equally vested partners in our new company. The expression ‘Worlds Away’ means being something completely different from anything else. It felt perfectly fitting as the new name for our company as we strive to have a fresh perspective for our business. We think it also accomplishes the goal of creating a sense of wanderlust and excitement to travel” adds Jackie.
The four independent businesses under Worlds Away Travel LLCP, represent over $4MM in annual leisure travel:
Heather Solish, Heather Solish Travel
Ania M. Wroblewska, Polished Traveler
Jennifer Anderson, Reserve Travel
Jackie Cittone Magid, Inviato Travel
Worlds Away will be an independent affiliate company under host company Travel Edge in New York. Jackie continued “We looked at a few hosting companies, but no one excited us as much as Travel Edge. They just had the whole package – from the support team, advisor resources, supplier relationships, and technology. We were extremely impressed by their vision for and investment in the future and feel like they are a perfect fit for our new business.
“We are truly excited to welcome Worlds Away Travel to the Travel Edge Family” said Michael Johnson, President of Travel Edge. “Travel Edge believes we all win when we celebrate our advisors as our business partners – rather than just as a host agency.”