I Spent My Career Making Travel Better.
Now I Put That Entirely in Your Corner.
WHERE IT BEGAN
I grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and travel has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My first job out of school was booking holidays for Qantas customers in their contact centre. I had no idea at the time that I was starting a 17-year career with one of the world’s great airlines, or that it would eventually lead me back to exactly that. Helping people plan the trips of their lives.
At Qantas, I worked my way from the phones to the executive team. I was part of the project that introduced the A380 aircraft into the fleet. I headed up the build of the First and Business class lounges at Los Angeles International Airport and managed the customer service operation there. My final role was leading the Inflight Entertainment department. Seventeen years of understanding, from the inside out, how the travel industry actually works, what airlines prioritize, where the value hides, and how to make things happen.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF ADVENTURE
In 2019, I left Qantas and opened a café in Sydney. Running a small business taught me things that no corporate role ever could. How to read people quickly, how to build something from nothing, how to care genuinely about every single person who walks through the door. I sold it in 2023, and not long after, something unexpected happened. I won the Green Card lottery and moved to the United States.
It was the kind of moment that makes you think seriously about what comes next. My passion has always been travel. I book trips for family and friends the way other people flick through Netflix, happily and for hours. So when I arrived in the States and asked myself what I actually wanted to do with this next chapter, the answer was obvious. Life is too short not to do the thing you love.
Adventures By Adam was born from that decision.
I’VE DONE THE TRIPS I RECOMMEND
I’ve stood on the summit of Kilimanjaro at dawn. I’ve spent a week at Burning Man in the Nevada desert. I’ve driven the length of Western Australia’s coastline, eaten (and drank) my way through Margaret River, snorkeled Ningaloo Reef and watched kangaroos wander across the sand at Lucky Bay. I visit my family in Brisbane regularly and my partner’s family in Auckland, so Australia and New Zealand are not destinations I read about. They are places I return to.
My first cruise was with Atlantis Events, and it showed me something I’ve never forgotten. That travel, at its best, creates a space where people from all walks of life feel completely at home. That spirit of connection and belonging runs through everything I design today.
I’ve since sailed with Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, Princess, Oceania, Silversea and Virgin Voyages. I know these ships, these itineraries and these experiences personally. When I recommend a cruise line, it’s because I believe it’s right for you, not because it’s the easiest option to sell.
BASED EVERYWHERE. AVAILABLE ALWAYS.
I don’t have a fixed office. My partner and I work remotely and travel constantly, often from cruise ships. Which means that when I tell you I understand what it feels like to be a long way from home and need someone reliable in your corner, I mean it in the most literal sense possible.
Wherever you are in the world and wherever I am, I’m reachable. Before your trip, during it, and after you’re home. That’s not a policy. It’s just how I work.
WHY ANY OF THIS MATTERS
Travel connects you with people you would never otherwise meet. It shows you the world from perspectives that no amount of reading or watching can replicate. It teaches you things about yourself that only come from being somewhere unfamiliar, navigating something new, or sitting quietly in a landscape that makes you feel very small in the best possible way.
I’ve seen it happen to clients. I’ve felt it myself. One well-designed trip can do more for a person than a year of staying put. That’s worth taking seriously. It’s why I care so much about getting the details right.
A LITTLE MORE
My family is spread across Brisbane and Auckland, and I visit both as often as I can. I have young nieces and nephews in Auckland who are growing up watching their uncle travel the world for a living, which feels like a pretty good thing to be showing them.
Brisbane will always be home in the way that only the place you grew up can be. But right now, home is wherever we are next.
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It’s a conversation about where you want to go and what you want to feel when you get there.
Most people find that’s the easiest part.