About
A small practice, with a long memory.
Over a decade of private travel design, from a small studio in Toronto.
I began this practice the way most of the advisors I respect began theirs: with one phone call, from one family, in 2016. Years later, that family is still my client. Their children have honeymooned. Their grandchildren have taken their first plane.
I keep the practice small on purpose. I take on a deliberately limited number of new families each year, and I turn down briefs I cannot run personally. The trips I plan are bespoke in the original sense of the word, measured to the family, not built up from a template.
Most of what makes a trip work is invisible. The hotel manager who returns my call on a Sunday. The guide who knows your youngest by name on day two. The supplier who flags, before I have asked, that a property has a renovation booked for the week you were planning to stay. These are relationships I have built over the years. They are the practice.
I live in Toronto with my partner and have three grown children. I am happiest at the family cottage in Georgian Bay over the summer, by the sea in the shoulder months, discovering new lands or returning to those dear to me.
Maryann
Maryann Gaskin · Toronto

About Gaskin Travel
Gaskin Travel is Maryann's practice, small by design, and run on relationships rather than scale. Every trip begins with a conversation, never a form, and each arranged personally.
It operates in partnership with a host agency, Travel Edge, Canada's largest independently-held luxury travel host. That partnership provides access to the many Preferred Partner programmes and an operations team that backstops every itinerary with documented contingencies.
Condé Nast Traveler · 2025, Top Travel Specialist
Condé Nast Traveler · 2026, Top Travel Specialist
Travel Edge · Chairman's Club
Ensemble
Hyatt · Privé
Four Seasons · Preferred Partner
Rosewood · Elite
Belmond · Bellini Club
Marriott · STARS & Luminous
Mandarin Oriental · Fan Club
Air Canada Preferred & Circle of Excellence
IHG Preferred Hotels & Resorts
Legend and LVX Collections, Preferred Platinum Partner
Accor Preferred by HERA
Rocco Forte Hotels Worldwide
Shangri-La Group the Luxury Circle
Leading Hotels Preferred Membership, Leading Hotels of the World
Within by Small Luxury Hotels
Relais & Chateaux Preferred Partner
A conversation begins every journey.
Maryann reads every enquiry herself. Most are answered the same day.