How is Sicily Concierge like the luxury-travel experts of the past?
Until the early 1950s –when commercial air travel itself was a luxury– few could afford holidays (vacations) which took them to far-away places purely for enjoyment, discovery or education, whether it was an American visiting Paris or a Briton visiting Naples. In those days almost all travel-for-pleasure (“leisure travel”) was, by definition, luxury travel, and the extremely knowledgeable travel experts who arranged it catered almost exclusively to the needs of the wealthy, the only ones who could readily afford either the expense or time it entailed. It was the golden age of the last luxury ocean liners and the first noisy trans-atlantic passenger planes. Making leisure travel available to a wider and more diverse clientele was a welcome development, but it brought with it great changes in the very concept of vacation travel, fostering a wide stratification in the quality and pricing of accomodations and other elements of your trip. With our focus on the highest quality and attentio
