Annie Fitzsimmons has covered hotels, travel, lifestyle, restaurants, and destinations around the world for the last two decades across many platforms and in a constantly evolving media landscape. She has worked with top media and travel brands, including at Indagare as editorial director, AFAR Media, and Virtuoso. She held various roles over the course of almost a decade at National Geographic Travel, including luxury editor, editor at large, and the first and only Urban Insider, reporting on cities, culture, and people around the world. So far, she has hosted more than 40 trips across Europe for small and large groups, planned itineraries for private clients, and created hundreds of travel guides. Fitzsimmons has been a keynote speaker and panelist about trends and luxury travel at conferences and events around the world and a host for podcasts, online series, and shows. From Scottsdale, Arizona, she lived in New York City for ten years and has been a licensed New York City tour guide since 2008. Currently based in London with her family, Fitzsimmons has traveled to six continents for work and will make it to Antarctica one day.

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