The world is out there. It waits for no one.

Welcome to Spirit of Travel

At Spirit of Travel, we don’t just plan holidays—we design deeply personal, luxury journeys that capture your unique aspirations. Whether it’s a once-in-a-lifetime bucket-list experience or a tailored escape, we’re here to unlock the full potential of your travel dreams.

Meet the Spirit of Travel Team

Ron Montgomery
Your Travel Architect

With over a decade of industry experience, I founded Spirit of Travel in 2018 to bring the art of personalised travel to discerning clients. My passion is in understanding your motivations and transforming them into meaningful journeys that reflect your identity and passions.

As a New Zealand-based, Canadian-born explorer, I weave my global experiences into every trip I design, ensuring that your adventure is one-of-a-kind. Known as the “bucket list guy” or “trip of a lifetime guy,” I take pride in helping clients realise their ultimate travel dreams.

Zoe Farmer
Operations Manager

Originally from the UK, Zoe’s love for travel began with childhood trips across Europe. After working and travelling through Australia, she settled in New Zealand, where she now plays a pivotal role at Spirit of Travel.

With a keen eye for detail and a passion for discovery, Zoe supports client itineraries, ensuring each journey is meticulously planned and reflects her deep knowledge of global destinations. When she’s not crafting travel experiences, she’s busy passing on her love for adventure to her two young children.

Why Choose Spirit of Travel?

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all travel. Our process starts with you—your desires, your tastes, your goals. From custom-crafted itineraries to bespoke enhancements of existing tours and cruises, every experience we design is unique. Our commitment to sustainability, curiosity, and continuous innovation ensures that your travel journey not only fulfills your dreams but also respects the cultures and environments you visit.

Spirit of Travel's Values

Ethically Focused

Cultivating a better world than we found by promoting sustainability across the environment, economy, and cultures of the locations we visit.

Partnerships

We partner with clients to achieve their goals, our focus is on excellent results, treating each client as an honoured partner.

We challenge

We encourage clients to consider alternative options if we believe it will benefit them, we question traditional methods if we identify an opportunity for improvement, and we continuously challenge ourselves to innovate and find superior solutions.

Inquisitive

We are curious and we are always learning, refining and asking the right questions.

"Delighted with the service we received from Ron at Spirit of Travel. He made it really easy to book our trip to Europe and worked patiently with us as we explored various options. His experience and insight into the travel industry got us a great deal and everything sorted in good time!"

"...can confidently recommend anyone to contact Ron Montgomery at Spirit of Travel, and discuss your travel aspirations. Out of these chats will come a plan that includes everything you wished. We began with Ron 5 years ago when we randomly approached him as a travel agent, and gave him a wish list for a potential 3 week trip to Borneo, a bucket list destination. There were no 'off the shelf' touristy packages that included everything, so Ron used his contacts and considerable people skills to put together exactly what we wanted."

"Ron is excellent at making sure he gets to know you first, understands exactly what it is you are looking for and "how" you like to travel. The trips he put together for us were both amazing and exceeded our expectations."

Make the first step to your adventure

Ron

Spirit of Travel is an affiliate of the TravelAdvocates Ltd network