AndavoConnections 2026: Three Days in Nashville That Reminded Us Why We Do This

There’s something that happens at AndavoConnections that doesn’t happen anywhere else. It’s not something you can put on an agenda — it’s the conversation that starts between sessions and doesn’t end until well after dinner, the supplier relationship that gets deeper because two people finally had an hour in the same room, the newer advisor who leaves with a mentor they didn’t know they needed. That’s what this conference is built around. The programming is the structure. The people are the point.

This year, AndavoConnections 2026 brought the Andavo community to Nashville — and the city fit like it was made for us. Nashville runs on collaboration. Every hit song started with people in a room who trusted each other enough to be honest and push each other further. For a community of independent luxury travel advisors and the supplier partners who support them, that felt exactly right.

Over three days, our luxury travel advisors and premier luxury suppliers came together for destination training on some of the most sought-after luxury markets — Africa, Japan, and Australia — alongside working sessions on best practices, emerging technology, and the tools reshaping how independent advisors build and run their businesses. The vendor fair gave advisors real face time with luxury supplier partners — not a tradeshow, but focused conversations with people who understand what high-end travelers actually want and what it takes to deliver it.

The evenings were their own kind of programming. Networking dinners that stretched well past the scheduled end time, because that’s what happens when the conversation is good. And on Friday evening, the full group had private after-hours access to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum — dinner inside the museum surrounded by decades of American music history, followed by an intimate performance and songwriter session that no one will forget anytime soon.

Andavo Travel has been a Virtuoso® member host agency for more than thirty years. AndavoConnections is the annual expression of everything that means — a gathering of independent luxury travel advisors who take their work seriously, supplier partners who show up because the relationship is worth investing in, and a host agency that believes the most important thing it can do is create space for its community to grow.

If you’re an independent travel advisor thinking about your next move — whether you’re considering switching host agencies or going independent for the first time — we’d love to talk. Visit andavotravel.com to learn more about what Andavo offers its advisor community, or reach out directly. The best time to have that conversation is before you think you need to.