Tina Cusumano

Tina Cusumano brings to her work something that cannot be taught and cannot be faked: genuine wanderlust. Her career as a travel consultant has been built on a foundation of personal travel that rivals most travel writers. She's walked the cobblestone lanes of Lisbon and Ljubljana, eaten her way through the markets of Marrakech and Palermo, and watched sunsets from the caldera rim of Santorini with the quiet confidence of someone who has earned that view through years of purposeful exploration.

Her European expertise is anchored in the Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Croatia), where she's developed the kind of insider knowledge that only comes from extended, repeated visits. She knows which Greek islands are worth the extra ferry journey, which Spanish paradors offer the most remarkable experiences, and which coastal villages in Portugal have been preserved from the tourist tide. Her itineraries feel authoritative because they are built on authority: the authority of someone who has been there, loved it, and knows how to help others love it too.

In the Caribbean, Tina's approach is equally personalized. She resists the temptation to match clients to the loudest or most-marketed properties, instead investing time in understanding exactly what kind of experience they're seeking: active or restful, social or intimate, structured or free-flowing. The result is a recommendation that feels tailored, because it is. Clients often tell her that the trip they took with her was the best vacation of their lives, a compliment she accepts graciously and takes as a mandate to exceed it next time.