todd@avenueapart.com

Todd Bliwise

Todd says “Travel is and always has been one of the richest and most magical things we can do and with this short life we have-we should be out there seeing all we can at every turn. I can only rest my head soundly at night when I know that every client that books with us is out there experiencing the world the way it was meant to be explored. In that way, just maybe I can inspire the next dreamer to dream far beyond his wildest imagination and reach for the stars.”

Born in California, Todd has always had a drive to explore the world. On his 15th birthday, he gave himself the goal of traveling to 50 countries by the time he was 25. He knew that somewhere on this incredible journey he would discover what it is he wanted to do.

Over the 10 years that followed, he traveled to 60 countries and flew nearly 1,500,000 miles across this beautiful planet. He learned and studied every trick in the book with respect to airlines and airfare, learning the ins and outs first of every economy cabin, then business class, and eventually first class cabin. Paying his dues as he did, he prided himself on experiencing every airline on earth, learning every product, every seat type, plane type, and frequent flyer program. Throughout college as an international Business Major at the University of Redlands in Southern California, his business emerged. While he was studying and along with other academic responsibilities, he took every opportunity to travel somewhere, whether it was freshmen year of college hopping on a 15 hour flight to China for 72 hours during fall break or spending a semester abroad studying in Milan, Italy, living with a local family and studying at an Italian university; his time spent traveling across the world taught him many lessons, lessons about people, about life, humility, relatively, and happiness. At a relatively young age he experienced lavish wealth juxtaposed next to indescribable poverty. He found kindness in the most unexpected destinations and he saw beauty beyond his wildest dreams. He discovered that the very art of travel is being able to accurately define who you are based upon finding your place in the world, and even now he still wants to learn more about the world we live in.

This all lead to the founding of An Avenue Apart, which he describes as the easel within which we paint everyone’s perfect trip. Along with all the airline studies he had also begun studying hotels and destinations the same way while in school. From relaxing in the turquoise blue lagoons of Tahiti to hiking the peaks of New Zealand, to exploring the villages of Nepal and Bhutan, he learned there is something out there for everyone and he made it his personal responsibility to make sure to match the client with their perfect destination based upon all that he saw and experienced. The differentiation strategy for An Avenue Apart is that he (along with the growing team) spent and continues to spend so much time on the road actually experiencing these properties and destinations first hand, that they never have to send clients anywhere An Avenue Apart doesn’t already know. Todd lives by the moto that he never wants to be a run of the mill travel company who searches things we don’t know; An Avenue Apart should be a never ending encyclopedia of knowledge-and we are doing just that. The love and passion he has for what we do stems from the same passion that drove him to explore the world in the first place. He makes sure that he and his team work hard to not just plan trips for people, but that we really spend the time getting to know the client to find the root of what is driving an individual to a particular destination and design a unique and customized trip that will shock and awe at every turn.

As of summer 2024, Todd has flown 2,500,000 miles and to more than 100 countries as he continues to explore the best the world has to offer for An Avenue Apart clients.

New York, NY

Founder & Owner