Who are we
Everything you want to know
At CBT Luxury Edition, we believe luxury can only be offered by those who have lived it. Every destination we recommend has been visited in person — the roads walked, the properties inspected, the guides met face to face — long before it is ever offered to a client. This is the standard we hold ourselves to, and the reason our journeys are never assembled from a brochure.
Founded in Vancouver by Natasha Phillips, CBT Luxury Edition draws on more than 25 years in the travel industry, including the founding of one of the first privately owned travel agencies in post-Soviet Russia. That experience — and the relationships built over decades with hoteliers, guides, and industry partners — gives us access and insight not available through conventional booking channels.
In an industry increasingly defined by call centers and automated platforms, we remain committed to something more traditional: a personal relationship with every client we serve.
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As a young girl, I watched planes take off and dreamed of seeing the world. That dream has taken me to more than forty countries, several of which I have returned to again and again. I built my first agency in Russia during the industry’s earliest days, then brought that same dedication to Vancouver, where CBT Luxury Edition was born. I remain convinced that luxury travel can only be genuine when it is designed by someone who has experienced it — and that belief still guides everything we do today.
Natasha Phillips
Owner
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Our Story
We Make every Travel special
CBT stands for Capital Business Travel — the agency Natasha Phillips opened in Vancouver in 1998. In its early years, the focus was on complex corporate itineraries and worldwide incentive travel, serving businesses that needed more than a booking system could offer: judgment, discretion, and someone who picked up the phone.
Over time, the requests began to change. Clients weren’t just asking for flights and hotels — they wanted a private retreat with no fixed schedule, a milestone celebration that felt like it had been designed just for them, a journey shaped entirely around how they wanted to feel, not where they needed to be. That shift, gradual but unmistakable, became CBT Luxury Edition.
The name changed. The instinct behind it never did. A quarter-century later, the belief that built this company remains the one that guides it today: the best journeys are never assembled from a brochure. They’re built, one relationship at a time.