Savita Curating 120 Personalised Trips a Year

(March 26, 2026) When Savita Reddy says that planning, researching and curating are personal joys, she means it in the most literal sense. She has visited 52 countries — attended the Rio Carnival in Brazil, stood at the edge of Iguazu Falls, wandered through the mystique of Machu Picchu, trekked the raw wilderness of the Amazon and contemplated the silence of the Atacama Desert in Chile. She has thrown tomatoes at strangers in Spain’s Tomatina Festival and felt the pull of places like Croatia and Iceland so deeply that they remain close to her heart years later.

This is not the résumé of a casual traveller. It is the foundation of an entrepreneur. “Each journey is a story, each destination a perspective. Experiential travel is what I love,” Savita, Partner and Co-Founder of Travel Trunk Global, tells Global Indian — and it is precisely that lived, firsthand experience that sits at the core of her venture. For Savita, the leap from passionate traveller to travel entrepreneur was not so much a pivot as an inevitability. The more of the world she saw, the more she understood what great travel could look like, and what was missing from the way most people experienced it.

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Six women and a globe

Founded in 2018 by Savita and two close friends, Travel Trunk Global was built on a premise that the best travel experiences are designed by people who have actually been there. What began as an idea sparked after organising a group trip with friends has since grown into a full-service travel enterprise offering personalised itineraries across the world, from celebratory holidays and adventurous expeditions to corporate getaways and wellness retreats.

The company has taken on a distinctive character along the way. It is an all-women enterprise. All three co-founders’ daughters are now part of the core team, giving Travel Trunk Global an unusual generational depth. “They say three is a crowd, but six is a party — around the globe,” smiles Savita.

The numbers reflect steady, confident growth. Travel Trunk Global now conducts around 120 trips a year — nearly 10 departures a month — backed by a global network of partners. “At least one of us has visited most of the countries we plan for, and that gives us the edge,” says Savita. That on-the-ground knowledge is what allows the team to move well beyond brochure tourism and craft itineraries that feel genuinely tailored. Sharing personal experiences from their own travels, the team brings a layer of insight and authenticity that no catalogue can replicate.

Co-founders of Travel Trunk Global

The years that tested them

The early years were far from smooth. The pandemic struck soon after the company’s launch, bringing the travel industry to a near-complete standstill and testing the resolve of even long-established players. For a company still finding its footing, it could have been the end of the road.

Instead, it became the making of them. “The years 2019 to 2021 were rough. But adversity, as it often does, became a foundation. Starting in difficult times made the team more resilient, more resourceful and more determined.”

Growth came slowly and organically — through small groups, word of mouth and the quiet accumulation of trust. There were no aggressive marketing campaigns, no elaborate launches. Just the quality of each experience, passed along from one traveller to the next. It is a model that has served the company well, and one that Savita sees as central to what Travel Trunk Global stands for.

A childhood built for this

Savita’s instinct for travel was shaped long before she ever imagined turning it into a business. Born into an Indian Air Force family, she moved to a new city every two years — a childhood that unfolded across India’s varied landscapes and instilled in her an ease with the unfamiliar that most people spend years trying to acquire.

“We moved to a new city every two years. I loved every bit of it,” she says. School vacations were never idle — they were invitations to explore. Bhutan, Ladakh, Shillong, Cherrapunji, Rajasthan: the map of her childhood reads like a well-curated itinerary in itself. The family also spent four years in Oman, where her father was deputed to the Sultanate’s Air Force, adding an international dimension to an already well-travelled upbringing. “I had covered most of India during my childhood itself. Travel was never a luxury — it was a way of life.”

Savita Reddy, Cofounder of Travel Trunk Global

That restlessness found a temporary home in fashion design, a career Savita built over 25 years with the same eye for detail and aesthetics she now brings to crafting travel experiences. But the pull of the world never really loosened its grip. It lingered — in memories, in friendships, in the instinct to plan and organise — until 2018, when a conversation after a group trip with friends set everything in motion.

The horizon keeps moving

Today, Savita travels internationally four to six times a year, often alongside client groups, and is actively developing new verticals for the business — MICE (corporate travel), wellness retreats and experiential journeys that go well beyond sightseeing. “The way people travel is changing. We want to evolve with that.”

Her own next frontier is Antarctica. A planned voyage earlier this year was postponed due to weather conditions — her journey pausing at Punta Arenas, at the very edge of the possible. She departs in December, undeterred. “The plan is to sail across the Drake Passage, embracing both the unpredictability and the thrill.”

On the current global climate — with ongoing conflicts casting uncertainty over international travel — she is candid but optimistic. “People will wait for the war to get done and travel anyway.” In the meantime, domestic tourism is absorbing much of the demand, and Travel Trunk Global is adapting accordingly, as it has always done.

It is, in many ways, the story of the company itself: built through uncertainty, grown through trust, and always — without exception — ready for the next departure.

When she’s not planning trips

Away from travel, Savita is a woman of many pursuits. Known to friends and family as the Dancing Queen, she is equally at home on a scuba diving expedition in Mexico or Egypt, or behind a bridge table, which became something of an obsession during the lockdown. For an adrenaline fix, she turns to TSD rallies; for mental sharpness, chess — which she describes simply as her “brain gym.”