Travel Design Role

Luxury Travel Designer

Design high-touch itineraries for travellers who value taste, pacing, and detail.

About this role

This role creates tailor-made luxury travel proposals, matches hotels and experiences to guest preferences, and turns complex briefs into commercially sound itineraries.

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Role Overview

What this job involves

The Luxury Travel Designer is responsible for shaping bespoke journeys from first brief to polished proposal. You will listen carefully, interpret taste and pace, and turn enquiry detail into itineraries that feel both imaginative and operationally grounded.

This is a role for someone who can hold aesthetics and commercial judgment together. A successful designer understands routing, hotel fit, experience sequencing, guest psychology, and the level of finish expected by premium travellers.

Key Skills for This Role

The skills and behaviors that matter most.

  • Itinerary architecture
  • Consultative listening
  • Destination storytelling
  • Commercial judgment
  • Written proposal craft
  • Cross-team collaboration

Role Snapshot

Key details at a glance

Job title
Luxury Travel Designer
Department
Travel Design
Employment type
Full-time
Location
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Work model
Hybrid
Experience level
Mid-to-senior
Reporting to
Head of Travel Design
Salary note
Competitive package aligned with experience and premium-travel expertise.
Date posted

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities and day-to-day focus

  • Design tailor-made luxury itineraries across Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and combination journeys based on client priorities, trip purpose, and budget range.
  • Translate enquiry notes into elegant proposals with clear routing logic, persuasive storytelling, and commercially sound pricing.
  • Recommend hotels, villas, guides, experiences, and transport arrangements that suit the guest profile rather than defaulting to standard combinations.
  • Collaborate closely with sales, concierge, and operations teams to refine proposals and ensure handovers remain precise once a booking converts.
  • Review supplier rates, seasonal considerations, blackout dates, and feasibility before proposals are issued.
  • Make thoughtful itinerary revisions in response to feedback while protecting brand positioning and margin quality.

Required Qualifications

What we need to see

  • At least 4 years of experience in luxury travel design, premium leisure sales support, or destination management itinerary planning.
  • Excellent written English with the ability to make proposals feel polished, clear, and globally credible.
  • Strong destination knowledge across Sri Lanka and an appetite to deepen expertise across the Maldives and complementary regional travel.
  • Commercial awareness in pricing, supplier selection, and itinerary feasibility.
  • Confident use of spreadsheets, proposal documents, and reservation or itinerary planning systems.

Preferred Qualifications

What would strengthen an application

  • Experience serving high-net-worth or premium international travellers.
  • Established familiarity with luxury hotels, boutique villas, wellness retreats, safari properties, or specialist guides.
  • A background in consultative travel sales or guest-facing planning roles.

Who This Role Is Ideal For

Who tends to flourish in this position

This role suits a refined travel planner who enjoys translating vague ambitions into compelling journeys and takes pride in getting both the feeling and the logistics exactly right.

Success in 90 Days

What strong early performance looks like

  • Learn the Elyndara proposal style, preferred partner set, and quality expectations across journeys, transport, and accommodation.
  • Take ownership of assigned enquiries and deliver polished itinerary drafts with increasingly confident product recommendations.
  • Build strong working rhythm with sales and operations so proposal-to-confirmation handovers are accurate and calm.
  • Demonstrate sound judgment on routing, pacing, and revisions without compromising the premium tone of the brand.

Why Join Elyndara

Why this role is worth pursuing

  • You will design journeys that reward intelligence, research, and taste rather than high-volume templating.
  • The role offers visible influence on the guest experience at the earliest and most strategic stage of the booking cycle.
  • You will deepen your expertise within a luxury travel brand that values thoughtful design as a core capability.

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Application

If this role sounds like your kind of work, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Send a polished application that highlights relevant experience, service mindset, and why this particular Elyndara role fits your strengths.

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