Melissa
Schoen

Melissa leads the Tide Rock Team at Elli Travel. She combines a passion for travel, research, and cultural exploration with a highly personalized approach to client service, designing exceptional journeys tailored to each traveler. Since joining Elli Travel Group in 2018, she has focused on transforming a lifelong love of discovery into thoughtfully curated, seamless experiences.

While her personal travels throughout Africa, North and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific inform her perspective, her expertise extends far beyond the destinations she has visited. She designs complex, highly customized itineraries and once-in-a-lifetime journeys across the globe—from iconic experiences such as Machu Picchu and India to seamlessly orchestrated itineraries across Australia and New Zealand. She also specializes in luxury river and ocean cruises, thoughtfully integrating them into broader travel experiences.

Drawing on firsthand experience and a trusted global network of partners, Melissa creates travel that is both meaningful and memorable. Known for her attentive listening and meticulous organization, she approaches every itinerary—whether a simple escape or a complex, multi-destination journey—with the same level of care, creativity, and attention to detail.

Melissa divides her time between New York and the Lowcountry of South Carolina.