PIERPAOLO DI NARDO

Travel Experience Designer

Eyes to feel

My Story

Travel is my life, storytelling is my tool, communication is my daily work with my partners.

I have been traveling the world for over 30 years. I have made over 90 trips to India sharing bread with the Rabari shepherds of Gujarat and dining with the Maharajas of Rajasthan. I walked from the mountains of Tibet to those of Ladakh, walking at an altitude of over 5000 meters; I lived with the Buddhist monks of Bhutan; I got lost in the tea plantations of Sri Lanka and played cricket in the Kolkata Maidan.

I am an expert in hospitality and travel concepts. I have an in-depth knowledge of the hospitality criteria and taste of western travellers.

Travel Designer
Luxury Hotels and Resorts
Glamping and Boutique Hotels

For 30 years I have been organizing luxury experiences in India, Ladakh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, Oman, Chile and Peru, countries where I lived, which I have visited several times, and where I have organized numerous expeditions.

I collaborate with communication agencies, tour operators, travel agencies, hotels and resorts, Dmc and tourism organizations, creating marketing and communication contents, aimed at placing luxury experiences and brands on the market.

I deal with luxury boutique hotels, resorts and Spa, Ayurveda retreats and luxury camps, and I organize events in exclusive locations.

I think that travel is a natural medicine to love yourself and to love others: a regenerating experience that involves the body and mind in a path of inner growth and enrichment.

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Maldindia

MALDINDIA is a team of Travel Designers specialized on Indian Subcontinent experiences.

Travel is our passion and our job.

As professional Travel Designers, we have been travelling to South America, North Africa, Central Asia, Middle East, but our homeland still remains India.

Our daily challenge is about inspirations, creative projects and new partnerships. We are always looking for unique locations, wonderful boutique hotels, real experiences, authentic local lifestyle, exploring the wilderness in amazing deluxe camps... This is what we are doing every day for our valuable clients all over the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas.

We are based in Milano, New Delhi, Barcelona, Paris, London, Lima and we can easily meet you anytime and everywhere for a cup of tea.

MALDINDIA is the real Subcontinent specialist for tailor made tours, and this is why the italian market recognize us!

My books

In my travels around the world there is never a lack of note books, a pair of pencils, a white kurta pijama to blend in with the people, and the time to be alone, in silence, to write about emotions and encounters...

I have collected the many things about India in books and travel guides: North India, 330 million gods and one people (Polaris); South India, in the land of the gods (Polaris); Maldindia: because you cannot longer do without it (Polaris); Maldindia's travels (Scalpendi).

People say about me...

Corriere della Sera

August 2020

"Traveling is accumulating knowledge, a path that often touches the deepest chords of each of us".

From this idea of travel, as something extremely personal, the figure of the travel designer was born. A job made of creativity, passion and the desire to get involved in the first person, as told by Pierpaolo Di Nardo, who has been involved in travel for 25 years, even writing books on the subject.

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Morning Future

August 2020

Travel designer, or the tailor of bespoke trips: curiosity, organizational skills, flexibility, knowledge of the territories and storytelling: these are the skills of the trade.

Then, today more than ever - explains Pierpaolo di Nardo, a pioneer in the sector - we also need to be a bit of a "psychologist" for our customers.

"A Travel Designer designs spaces of freedom to offer to his travelers: it is the most beautiful job in the world".

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Accademia Creativa Turismo

July 2020

Pierpaolo Di Nardo, tireless traveler, professional travel designer and writer among the most popular of travel guide books and more. With over 80 trips to the Indian subcontinent, he truly managed to blend his passion for travel with his professional life, becoming one of the greatest Italian travel designers. In 2016 he founded "Maldindia Travel Experience Designer", a Tour Operator speclialized in the luxury travel tourism, and il 2020 "BeeBest" a team of expert consultants in hotel restyling.

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Hotel Experience Designer

Hospitality is not just a comfortable bed to sleep in: a hotel must be a living place of sociability and positive feelings. Therefore it is essential to understand what we, as hoteliers, want to communicate to the guest we host: this requires a hospitality concept that guides the work of hotel staff and managers every day.

The Hotel Experience is first of all made by people and then by structures. There are wonderful hotels that are unable to offer any hospitality experience because they have no hospitality concept behind. Hotels without vision are empty boxes: places for sleeping and not for living.

How to design a Hotel Experience?

Through briefings and inspections, the potential and limitations of the facility will be highlighted. Highlighting the strengths and minimising the weaknesses through simple design and decoration measures, we will elevate the customer experience and create the identity and uniqueness of our hotel.