Meet Stacy

A former luxury travel magazine editor and jet-setting journalist, Stacy Small founded Elite Travel International in 2005 with the goal of changing the landscape of offerings for the new generation of affluent luxury travelers. Fourteen years later, Stacy is the go-to luxury travel advisor for a mixed portfolio of Silicon Valley executives, celebrities and entrepreneurs seeking a global-minded approach and efficient, fast, knowledgeable response time to any level of luxury travel request.

Along with her dynamic team spanning the globe from LA to NYC, Atlanta to San Diego, Mexico to Maui, Small specializes in taking the hassle out of high-level travel. As the founding editorial director of the private jet magazine, Elite Traveler, along with 25 years’ worth of friendships with luxury travel suppliers everywhere, Small knows how to navigate the complex world of information overload for her curated clientele. An early adopter of social media, she has built a following of 100,000+ on platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook as @stacyhopesmall. Fans and followers look to her for live-time updates and photos to assist in their own travel-planning decisions.

A graduate of the Newhouse School of Communications (1991) at Syracuse University, Small has traveled to hundreds of cities since graduating and embarking on her travel writer-turned-travelpreneur career and has written about her experiences for dozens of travel and business publications. She is regularly quoted as an expert source on luxury travel in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Forbes and Travel + Leisure, and is often tapped as a speaker on topics from travel to social media to small business success.

The winner of Virtuoso’s Most Innovative Travel Advisor award in 2013, Small continues to set the pace as a “different” kind of travel professional and lives up to her nickname (given to her by clients) as “the Google of Travel.” A passionate fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Small now resides in beautiful Carlsbad, CA with her three rescue dogs. Her first book, “WHYNOTME?!?, 12 Lessons a Year on an Island Taught Me About Living My Dreams, and How You Can Live Yours Too” will be published by Balboa Press and available for sale on Amazon and at bookstores Spring 2019.