Milena G

June 23, 2023

Chasing a brand

This month’s gratitude email is a special one. We’re midway in our celebratory year, the one marking 10 years since we started Beyond Dracula with the idea to show Romania to travelers who wanted to discover it. This idea was simple enough that without any experience in the travel industry and none building and running a business, I got it.​It made sense.​Ultimately, […]
May 19, 2023

PURE luck

This month’s gratitude email is about PURE, the trade show we’ve been attending since 2014. Do you recall how Pawan, our Nepalese godfather, said he goes to WTM in London to help his country but gets business from PURE?  Clueless about he meant, I took notes and checked everything out.  I remember finding PURE’s website and feeling confirmation. What we set out to […]
April 7, 2023

This is about you

Good Friday feels like the right time to send this month’s gratitude email. And this is a very personal one because we would not be here, 10 years after Beyond Dracula was just an idea, without you. Every single interaction we had, whether it led to a call, an email exchange or a trip, made us who we are today. The agencies, agents, travel […]
March 10, 2023

Our Godfather is Nepalese

The title is not a mistake. Let me explain. ​Beyond Dracula has a godfather, and he is Nepalese. As part of the series of gratitude emails that mark our 10 years anniversary, I want to share this special story with you. Me and my business partners had a simple idea: put Romania on the map of bespoke travel one trip at a time.  […]
February 10, 2023

The people behind Beyond Dracula

You might not know this, but in 2023 we’re celebrating 10 years since we started Beyond Dracula. Yuhu!  In June 2013, I joined Giulio and Alexandra da Sacco, as the managing partner for something which, at the time, was an idea only: to put Romania on the map of bespoke travel. What you might also not know is that when I […]