Savanti Travel case study summary
Savanti Travel, a boutique luxury travel agency, needed to hire a Luxury Travel Advisor – someone who could serve ultra-high-net-worth clients spending $500K+ a year on travel. Weeks of self-recruiting on LinkedIn and Indeed surfaced no one who could actually do luxury travel, and the COO was handling all hiring herself.
lemonly considered 15,697 travel industry operators, personally interviewed 26, and introduced 8 candidates. Seven of the eight made Savanti’s shortlist, and both finalists came from lemonly’s search. The hire started in May 2026. Savanti now runs all their hiring through lemonly – three roles and counting.
Natalie Bosler, COO of Savanti Travel: “I’d recommend lemonly to anyone hiring in North America. Hiring is time-consuming, analytical, and tiring – lemonly makes it objective and easy.”
Case Study
The travel advisor
who actually gets luxury.
Savanti Travel · Boutique luxury travel agency
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15,697
operators considered
7 of 8
candidates shortlisted
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The Problem
Plenty of people love travel. Almost none can do luxury travel.
Savanti sells the world’s most luxurious properties to clients spending half a million dollars a year on travel. That takes someone who can book Sabre without thinking, anticipate a client’s needs before they ask, and stay calm when a trip unravels at 2am. After weeks of DM’ing on LinkedIn and reading every resume cover-to-cover, Savanti still hadn’t found one person who actually got luxury travel. That’s when they came to lemonly.
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in-house recruiters
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“We get people who are just like, ‘I love traveling, I Instagram.’ And it’s like – I need to know that you can book Sabre.”
Natalie Bosler · COO, Savanti Travel
The Approach
lemonly didn’t start with the job spec.
It started with a Role Kick-Off – understanding what actually mattered beyond the spec. From there, lemonly’s AI searched 15,697 travel industry operators across the open web, a lemonly recruiter personally spoke with every promising candidate, and AI screening confirmed each one objectively against Savanti’s brief. No spray-and-pray, no inbox full of travel-lovers – every introduction had earned its place.
15,697
operators considered
8
introduced
“lemonly really understood what we needed – we didn’t have to tell them twice. They worked as an extension of our team.”
Natalie Bosler · COO, Savanti Travel
The Screen
lemonly found the needle in the haystack.
Sofia D.
Luxury Travel Advisor
Matches the brief
- 6 years in luxury travel
- Has served HNW and UHNW clients
- Books complex multi-leg itineraries
- Canada-based, works Pacific hours
Sofia's bonuses
- Built her own book as an independent advisor
- Five-star hotel background
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The Search
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15,697
Operators considered
7 of 8
Candidates shortlisted
2 of 2
Finalists from lemonly
The Result
8 introduced. 7 made the shortlist.
Both of Natalie’s finalists came from lemonly’s search – and lemonly interviewed the eventual hire just 8 days after the role opened. Savanti now runs all their hiring through lemonly: three roles and counting.
“I don’t want to go back to what we were doing before – acting as our own recruiter, posting jobs, reading resumes. After this experience, I just can’t.”
Natalie Bosler | COO, Savanti Travel
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