Welcome to the third annual list of Robb Report’s Travel Masters.
Travel can be both profound and transformative. Exhilarating and unforgettable. But not always. The difference between a good trip and a great one—perhaps a life-changing one—is so often about tapping the right people to help plan it. It can be hard to know who to trust to create your dream adventure or even a jaunt back to your favorite destination. There are hundreds of travel specialists, after all, most of whom will argue convincingly that they have contacts and connections to open doors around the globe.
Only a handful of operators worldwide, however, have the expertise, clout and ambition to make the unimaginable real. To celebrate them, and to help you, we have brought them together under this Masters of Luxury banner. There are barely more than two dozen, nearly all of them specialists in certain regions or types of journeys.
They come with our endorsement.
We’ve worked closely with the first group on stories, including asking them to nominate the hotels they consider the greatest places to stay in the world, tapping them for insider scoops and asking their recommendations for the best travel products (cashmere’s the key, it seems).
We’ve also partnered with the Travel Masters for our new, luxury e-commerce site, The Vault, asking them to create unique, exclusive experiences solely for Robb Report readers—more of those, to come.
As always, if you’re traveling this year, don’t leave home without contacting one of them—and make sure to mention Robb Report sent you.
10. Max Rosenthal & Stacy Fischer-Rosenthal, Fischer Travel

Max Rosenthal (center) is the third generation of his family to join Fischer Travel. The New York-based firm was founded by his grandfather Bill Fischer, but is currently run by his mom Stacy. The 30-strong operation is more like a members-only club than a conventional travel agency, with a $150,000 initiation fee and annual dues of $25,000. For that, the team opens up its little black book to create one-off experiences worldwide. Indeed, it was Fischer Travel clients who were the first to experience Camp Sarika at Amangiri a month before it opened to anyone else. Another client wanted to see Wadi Rum in Jordan, but the local hotel didn’t pass Fischer’s quality control, so the team shipped in 10 staff from the Kempinski in Aqaba to temporarily run the camp at a higher level.