During our owner, Sandy Staples' Freshman Summer, she embarked on her first ever flight going to Hawaii with family. After that trip she knew she wanted to continue traveling and flying the World. She started her career with an internship at PSA Airlines. In the next years she worked for a Hawaiian wholesale company in reservations and flight ticket operations, followed by a long career as an International Travel Agent at a large corporation, with a focus on exotic, adventure, and cruise vacations.

After retiring from that position, she worked as District Sales Manager for Princess Cruises and Cunard. After over 25 years in the industry, in January of 2012 she decided it was time to fulfill one last dream and open an agency of her own, specializing in luxury travel and high-end, custom client services. With that in mind she applied to and was accepted into Virtuoso, a prestigious network of the World's best travel agencies, and thus "Artistico Travel Consultants, Inc", was born.

Attention to detail and client's requests, and overall experience in the industry have been key to the continued success of this long travel career. These career choices have allowed her the luxury of traveling the World, while learning from each and every adventure. Years long relationships all around the industry have provided the opportunity to build a solid team of passionate advisors that have have more than 100 years combined travel planning experience. This relates to strong partnerships around the World that our client's benefit from and are privy. As the saying goes, "You can not VIP yourself!"