What Luxury Means to Us

By Parik Laxminarayan | CEO & Co-Founder The world is full of beautiful places. True luxury is having the time to actually feel them. We spend our lives measuring time—dividing weeks into hours and hours into obligations. When we finally step away, airport transfers, hotel check-ins, and endless micro-decisions try to steal that time back—pulling us away from the very presence we set out to find. In 2004, while completing my MBA at INSEAD, I invited a group of international classmates to explore my homeland of India. Watching my peers be transformed by the real India—far beyond standard tourist circuits—changed my understanding of travel forever. Conventional tourism was not giving travelers the rich experience they hoped to have. It connected people with famous landmarks, but missed the true soul of the destination. To bridge expert local insight with flawless, invisible logistics, I founded Enchanting Travels on a simple realization: your time is the most precious thing you will ever trust us with. Travel should feel as warm as stepping into the home of a lifelong friend. A welcomed guest feels at ease the moment they arrive. We design your personalized journey with this exac...