Claudia Gordon has provided luxury travel services to discerning individuals and businesses. Over the 35+ years she has developed great relationships with her travel partners, which makes all the difference when making arrangements for her clients.
She works closely with her clients from start to finish to match the right vacation to the client’s needs and desires. She takes great satisfaction in surpassing her client’s expectations. She focuses on personalized service and attention to detail and this distinguishes her from other travel advisors and mass-market websites. These are some of reasons she has been selected to the Travel + Leisure A-List for 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009. Claudia received her CTC designation in 1989 and has been quoted in national and local travel publications. She has two Destination Specialist designations in France and the South Pacific. She completed training for a Space Travel Specialists for the Virgin Galactic suborbital space travel exploration. An avid photographer, she recently published a book of photographs from the wedding of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge titled “Reflections of the Royal Wedding.” www.ReflectionsOfTheRoyalWedding.com She was selected to have lunch with the Duchess of Cambridge in 2015, 1 of only 24 of the world’s most accomplished travel professionals. Eonline video: Daily Motion Video Report; News Press; EonLine Video
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Claudia plans group and individual vacations, multigenerational cruises, safaris, cultural trips, adventure travel, destination weddings and culinary trips. Claudia has traveled extensively to most parts of the world including: Asia, India, China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Peru, Ecuador, Central America, Russia, United Kingdom and most countries on the Continent of Europe, Norway, Sweden. Italy has been a yearly vacation for each of the past 15 years. Her specialties include luxury small ships, residential cruise ships, private jet travel and world cruises. This is why she is Naples preferred agency for around the world by private jet. She also loves hotels! Wherever she travels, she enjoys visiting and inspecting hotels. Once a client selected a hotel in Florence, Italy from a guidebook, which she knew they wouldn’t like. While traveling in Italy, she photographed this hotel and then took more photographs of the hotel where she thought they should stay. She sent the photographs and suggested the client reconsider. Her clients phoned and thanked her and said they wouldn’t trust a guidebook or an Internet website ever again – only Claudia.
To say her passion is travel is an understatement! Claudia has sailed on almost every luxury cruise ship and the only residential luxury ship at sea The World, been on safari in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, East and Southern Africa, sailed by private yacht around Corsica and to the Italian Riviera, stayed in many of the world’s luxury hotels and explored sights by private car and guide. All these personal experiences have allowed her to better advise her clients.