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If you’ve outgrown cookie-cutter travel …

Welcome to the good stuff. At Winkaffe Global Travel, we craft immersive, high-touch trips that trade tourist traps for connection and clichés for depth. Think: local flavor, low-impact luxury, and logistics so seamless you’ll forget they exist.

Whether it’s a once-in-a-lifetime epic or a multi-stop adventure you’ve been plotting for years, we’ll help you travel like the kind of person who knows the back entrance and the bartender’s name.



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Planning an epic trip should feel exciting—not overwhelming. Whether you’re craving barefoot luxury, cultural deep dives, or just want someone to please handle the logistics, we’ve got the perfect advisor for you. Take this quick quiz and we’ll match you with your ideal WGT travel designer—someone who knows exactly how to make your dream trip happen. Spoiler alert: We’re all excellent, but one of us is your excellent.




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Hi, I'm Kristin Winkaffe

I’ve shared tea with women’s cooperatives in Peru, gotten stuck in a blizzard on Mount Kilimanjaro, and broke the Ramadan fast with friend in Malaysia.

Before founding WGT, I ran human rights programs around the world and designed travel for NGOs and diplomats. Now, I design custom luxury trips for people who want more from their vacation than a fancy hotel (though yes—we do those, too).

This isn’t off-the-rack travel. It’s personal, purposeful, and polished. And if you’re chasing goosebump moments and travel that changes how you see the world—well, we should talk.

Founder, Travel Designer,
Globe Trotter

MEET KRISTIN

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Every Kind of Trip—Except the Boring Kind

Romantic cultural deep-dives? Check. Glacial hikes followed by
five-course dinners? Done. Multi-gen memory-makers that
don’t involve a cruise ship conga line?

 Oh yes.

We’ve got a global network of the most dialed-in partners in the biz. If you can dream it, we’ll build it.

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Luxury, Your Way

Luxury That Does More Than Look Good


Every trip we design starts with this: how do we make this incredible and impactful?

We only work with hotels and experiences that respect their communities and ecosystems—and we vet them hard. We prioritize women- and Indigenous-owned businesses, and 10% of our profits go towards making travel a force for good - 5% directly back to local organizations in your destination and 5% towards industry-wide change.

This is not performative travel. It’s the real-deal kind. And trust us: doing good looks damn good on you.

HOW WE TRAVEL

For us, “sustainable travel” isn’t just the latest trend

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Ready to make it official? Fill out our quick trip request form to kick things off. 

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