Elevate
Journeys designed
to restore what
the world depletes.
A boutique wellness travel advisory and retreat venue sourcing practice founded by a twenty-year hospitality veteran. Specializing in retreat venue sourcing for facilitators, corporate wellness retreats, and luxury wellness travel for travelers who want presence over performance.
Retreat venue sourcing for facilitators. Corporate wellness retreats. Luxury wellness travel.
The wellness travel and retreat planning advisor trusted by leading hospitality publications, with insider access to global luxury consortia.
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I am Emily Johnson, founder of Elevate Hospitality Collective and a Fora-affiliated travel advisor with two decades inside hotels like The Breakers Palm Beach, Four Seasons, Taj, and Kimpton.
I plan travel the way I built commercial strategy: with rigor, taste, and an understanding of what actually creates returns for the traveler. Rest, reconnection, and a sense of having been somewhere that mattered.
Where I work best.
Four travel practices, each built around a specific kind of need. All curated personally, none outsourced.
Corporate Wellness Retreats
Executive offsites and team retreats built around wellness, restoration, and intentional team development. For companies investing in employee wellbeing as a commercial asset rather than a perk. Venues sourced from a vetted collection across the Mid-Hudson Valley, Catskills, Plymouth wine country, and international wellness destinations.
Luxury Wellness for Two, or One
Hand-built itineraries for couples and solo travelers seeking properties that take wellness seriously. Six Senses, Aman, Miraval, Canyon Ranch, Belmond, and independent boutique properties most travel sites have never indexed.
Family Wellness Travel
Trips that genuinely work for parents and kids. As a mother of two who has planned a national parks road trip with my own children, I know the difference between a family-friendly property and one that actually understands what families need.
Retreat Venue Sourcing for Facilitators
My core specialty. For yoga teachers, breathwork leaders, coaches, and wellness practitioners building their own retreats: I know the boutique properties, the contract terms, the pricing benchmarks, and which venues actually deliver on what they promise. You focus on holding space. I handle the rest.
The best wellness travel is not
louder. It is quieter, more intentional,
and made for the traveler in front of you.
An insider network
Fora affiliation grants access to Virtuoso, Four Seasons Preferred Partner, Belmond Bellini, and other consortia. Translation: upgrades, breakfast, resort credits, and amenities at no additional cost to you.
A curated shortlist
I do not show you everything. I show you what fits. Every property I recommend has been vetted against your stated priorities, your pace, and your definition of restoration.
A commercial mind
Twenty years of hotel sales experience means I read between the lines of rate cards, terms, and packages. You get the trip you wanted at the cost the property actually intended.
A few corners of the collection.
From the Catskills to the Cyclades, properties I know personally and recommend selectively.
Credentials that go past the title.
I am one of a small number of advisors who has worked on both sides of the wellness travel industry. I built the strategies that hotels use to attract guests like you. Now I help those same guests find the properties worth their time.
- 01 Twenty years in hospitality sales and marketing across Four Seasons, Kimpton, Taj, Marriott, Melia, and The Breakers Palm Beach.
- 02 Fora travel advisor with access to Virtuoso, Four Seasons Preferred, Belmond Bellini, and Rosewood Elite consortia.
- 03 Certified Reiki practitioner and circle-certified retreat leader. Not adjacent to wellness. In it.
- 04 Featured in Travel + Leisure, Yahoo Travel, HOTELS Magazine, Hospitality Net, and HotelSpeak.
- 05 Penn State Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, valedictorian. MBA, ENEB.
Tell me where you
want to go.
Share a little about what you are hoping for and I will be in touch within two business days. No automated funnels, no follow-up sequences. Just a real reply.
Sanctuary, found.
Elevate Hospitality Collective