Brand Partnerships
Partner with Angela Hughes
Angela Hughes works with tourism boards, luxury hotels, cruise lines, travel brands, and destination marketing organizations to connect destinations with travel advisors and luxury travelers through education, media campaigns, and industry partnerships.
Partner with AngelaWho Is Angela Hughes
Angela Hughes is widely recognized as a leading voice in the global luxury travel advisor community. With more than forty years of experience, she connects destinations with the travel advisors and luxury travelers who shape where the world travels. Her partners include:
- Tourism boards
- Destination management companies
- Luxury hotels
- Cruise lines
- Travel brands
Angela is the CEO of Trips & Ships Luxury Travel and the founder of Luxury Travel University. Through these platforms, she grows the premium and luxury travel market by working with advisors, brands, and destinations worldwide — through:
- Education
- Media collaborations
- Destination campaigns
- Industry speaking engagements
Angela also leads a professional community of more than 59,000 travel advisors, DMCs, travel brands, hoteliers, and travel industry professionals. That makes her one of the most connected voices in the luxury travel advisor ecosystem.
Brands partner with Angela Hughes because she understands both sides of the travel industry. She understands how suppliers position their products and she understands how travel advisors successfully sell travel experiences to their clients.
Why Brands Partner with Angela Hughes
Angela Hughes has built one of the most recognized personal brands in the luxury travel advisor community. Her work combines education, influence, and industry leadership, allowing brands to connect with both travel professionals and affluent travelers.
Through Luxury Travel University and Trips & Ships Luxury Travel, Angela works directly with the professionals who design, recommend, and sell travel experiences around the world.
Her audience includes
Ways Angela Hughes Partners with Travel Brands
Angela works with travel brands through a variety of partnership models depending on the goals of the campaign.
Influencer & Brand Ambassador
Destination storytelling, hotel showcases, cruise partnerships, and social media campaigns that educate travel advisors.
Podcast Features
Interviews on Luxury Travel with Angela Hughes reaching travel advisors, agency owners, and travel professionals.
Keynote Speaking
Industry conferences, tourism board events, and forums connecting brands with travel professionals and decision makers.
Media Campaigns
Television features, commercial campaigns, destination promotions, and digital media collaborations.
FAM Trips & Education
Curated familiarization trips and advisor training programs for destinations, hotels, and cruise lines.
Tourism Board Partnerships
Destination education, keynote presentations, advisor workshops, and media storytelling campaigns.
Influencer & Brand Ambassador Collaborations
Luxury travel brands frequently partner with Angela as a trusted industry voice to introduce destinations, hotels, cruises, and travel experiences to travel advisors and luxury travelers.
Angela focuses on authentic partnerships that educate travel advisors and help them confidently position luxury travel experiences to their clients.
Collaborations may include
Advisor Education in Action
Angela Hughes works with tourism boards, destination partners, and travel brands to create advisor-facing education that is visually compelling, strategically structured, and designed to build confidence in selling premium travel experiences.
This is the type of destination education Angela creates to support advisor confidence, destination positioning, and stronger partner visibility.
Podcast Features & Industry Conversations
Angela hosts the podcast Luxury Travel with Angela Hughes, where she interviews leaders across the global travel industry including tourism boards, luxury hotels, cruise lines, and travel innovators.
These conversations reach travel advisors, agency owners, and travel professionals looking to grow their businesses and stay informed about industry trends.
Brand collaborations may include
Keynote Speaking & Industry Conferences
Angela Hughes is an internationally recognized speaker. She frequently appears at global travel conferences, tourism board events, and industry forums, where she shares insights on:
- Luxury travel trends
- Advisor success strategies
- Destination marketing
- The evolving role of travel advisors in the global travel ecosystem
Her presentations focus on growing the premium and luxury travel market, helping travel advisors build profitable businesses, and connecting destinations and travel brands with the advisor community that influences where travelers choose to explore.
Angela has spoken at events hosted by
These speaking engagements place brand partners directly in front of highly engaged travel professionals and industry decision makers.
Media Campaigns & Commercial Partnerships
Angela Hughes collaborates with travel brands, tourism boards, and hospitality companies on media campaigns and commercial storytelling. These campaigns introduce destinations and travel experiences to a broader audience — helping brands reach travel advisors and consumers while building credibility through trusted industry leadership.
Media collaborations may include
Featured Media Collaboration
Angela Hughes featured in conversation with Sydney Banks of FLYWIRE, highlighting industry insight, brand storytelling, and travel partnership visibility.
FAM Trips & Advisor Education Experiences
Angela regularly collaborates with travel brands on curated familiarization trips designed to educate travel advisors about destinations, hotels, cruise lines, and travel experiences. These experiences allow advisors to confidently recommend partner brands to their clients.
FAM partnerships may include
Tourism Board Partnerships
Angela Hughes frequently collaborates with tourism boards and destination marketing organizations to help travel advisors better understand destinations and how to successfully position them to luxury travelers.
Angela has partnered with
Collaborations may include
Destination Campaigns
Angela also works with tourism boards to design destination campaigns that introduce locations to travel advisors and inspire luxury travelers to explore new parts of the world.
Affiliate Partnerships
Angela Hughes collaborates with select companies through affiliate partnerships that align with the needs of travel advisors and the luxury travel industry. These relationships focus on education, transparency, and long term industry collaboration.
Featured Brand Collaborations
Angela Hughes has collaborated with leading luxury travel brands, tourism boards, hotels, cruise lines, and travel companies around the world.
Brands Angela has worked with
Destination partners
Examples of Collaborations
Luxury hospitality partnerships highlighting brands such as Four Seasons, Bulgari Hotels, Baglioni Hotels and Resorts, Soneva Resorts, and Heritance Aarah Maldives.
Destination campaigns developed with tourism boards to introduce destinations through advisor education, speaking engagements, and media storytelling.
Cruise line collaborations with Riverside Cruises and Windstar Cruises focused on advisor training and luxury cruise awareness.
Tour operator and destination management collaborations with Italy by Experts, VIA Croatia, and Nziza Hospitality that introduce advisors to curated travel experiences.
Partnership Opportunities
Luxury travel brands, tourism boards, hotels, cruise lines, and travel companies partner with Angela Hughes to connect with the travel advisor community and reach luxury travelers through trusted industry leadership.
Media & Speaking
Angela Hughes is an internationally recognized speaker and media contributor in the travel industry. To view Angela's media appearances, press coverage, and speaking engagements, visit the Media and Speaking page.
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Angela Hughes — Luxury Travel University
luxurytravelcoach@tripsandships.comwww.luxurytraveluniversity.com
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Additional 2026 Destination Masterclasses
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