While luxury travel keeps selling the destination, one Boca Raton advisor is quietly proving readers will pay a premium for the story instead, three sold-out tours in, and now the subject of a New York Times feature.
BOCA RATON, Fla., July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Luxury travel has long sold the destination. Novel Travels is selling the story first.
The Boca Raton company, founded by Corinne Levine of Eltee Travel, a member of Global Travel Collection and the Virtuoso network, builds literary journeys around the books, authors, places, and histories that shaped them. Its scheduled small-group departures, capped at fourteen travelers, are designed for women, while custom itineraries can be created on request for any traveler bringing their own group. The model has proven out: two sold-out tours, a waitlist, and a feature in The New York Times travel section this month that triggered a surge of national inquiries.
The company occupies a gap most luxury operators have left open. Literary travel exists at the enthusiast and academic level, but rarely at the level of service, intimacy, and design that high-end travelers expect. Levine built Novel Travels to close that gap.
"I stood where the main character stood, and I thought, I can't be the only one who wants to do this," Levine said. "I'd loved that novel for years before I ever got to St. Petersburg. To finally stand inside it, and to know other readers would want the same thing, that was the whole idea."
The design is the engine. Each journey is built around literature, a single novel, a cluster of books tied to one place or period, or the literary life of a city. Levine's earliest journeys, built around the work of novelist Fiona Davis https://www.fionadavisbooks.com/ , sold out three times and proved the model: a repeatable, defensible way to turn deep reading into high-end travel.
Its literary tour of New York this November has sold out. Additional journeys are in development.
Novel Travels also welcomes conversations with literary journalists interested in experiencing a journey firsthand. Writers covering this space are invited to reach out directly to discuss what that might look like.
Levine has worked in luxury travel since 2012 and is affiliated with Eltee Travel, Global Travel Collection, and the Virtuoso network. More at novel-travels.com. instagram.com/noveltravelsofficial
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