Our Story
DesignScape Luxury Travel was founded to offer something rare: travel that feels personal, thoughtful, and quietly transformative.
Luxury begins with understanding. Each itinerary is grounded in careful listening to values, pace, and what brings genuine ease. This approach allows us to design experiences that reflect both the traveller and the organization they belong to.
Every journey is handled privately, with the same attention to detail our founder developed through years in fine dining and global hospitality.
Trust Through Travel
Our work strengthens relationships between brands and their members, between families and generations, and between travellers and the places they visit.
We design meaningful travel that reflects what matters most to those you serve.
Meet Alex
Growing up as an international equestrian competitor, Alex Kriss lived and trained across Europe and beyond, embracing local customs, languages, and traditions. She learned to adapt quickly, communicate across cultures, and find ease in unfamiliar settings. Managing the logistics of sourcing, transporting, and caring for competition horses developed calm under pressure and precise coordination.
Upon returning to Canada, Alex spent more than a decade in high-touch hospitality, leading fine-dining teams and refining attentive, detail-focused service.
Together, these influences of cultural insight, global perspective, operational discipline, and thoughtful hospitality shape every journey DesignScape creates today. Clients experience it as steady guidance, clear communication, and plans that simply work.
Milestones & Credentials
Trusted Organizational Partnerships
Collaborations with private clubs, wealth advisors, and boutique hotels across Ontario.
Referral-Based by Design
Built intentionally as a private consultancy, DesignScape works exclusively through introductions and trusted referrals.
Global Partner Network
Supported by long-standing relationships with boutique hotels, ground operators, and destination specialists across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Starter Company Plus Grant Recipient
Recognized by Kingston Economic Development for entrepeneurship and digital strategy
KORE Travel Education Graduate
Alex Kriss became the first Canadian to graduate from this prestigious travel program and has gone on to become an ambassador.
TICO Certified
Registered with the Travel Industry Council of Ontario upholding the highest standards in professionalism and consumer protection.
Philosophy
At DesignScape, we design strategic travel systems that strengthen your organisation’s relationships. We begin by listening to your goals and your clients’ priorities, then shape clear service tiers from invite-only group journeys to dedicated steward support. Each program lives quietly within your brand and is delivered with care and confidentiality, protecting the confidence and stature you have earned.