Photo courtesy of With Meraki Travel Collection Forest Farm

Photo courtesy of With Meraki Travel Collection Forest Farm

Photo courtesy of With Meraki Travel Collection Forest Farm

Photo courtesy of With Meraki Travel Collection Forest Farm

It began in Tagaytay

At With Meraki Travel Collection Forest Farm, dinner began before the kitchen. Rain decided what the garden would give; the table followed. Place set the terms.

What the farm taught us

Not what could be added, but what was already there — alive, specific and worth entering more carefully.

Photo courtesy of With Meraki Travel Collection Forest Farm

The map widened slowly

The Philippines was already personal. Italy arrived through lived familiarity. One introduction led to another; the collection grew without chasing pins on a map.

Photo courtesy of With Meraki Travel Collection Forest Farm

The people behind the invitation

Hosts, makers, guides and collaborators who make access feel natural.

Barbara Kitane

Barbara Kitane

Product & partnerships

Barbara reads a region through the people already working within it: hosts, makers, operators, cooks and cultural practitioners. Her background across tourism, hospitality, culture and sustainability keeps the route accountable to what is actually there.

Ampersand Future · GSTC Professional Certification in Sustainable Tourism · 20+ years across tourism, hospitality, culture, sustainability and experience design

Ria Cortez

Ria Cortez

Growth & operations

Ria notices the question that gets someone across town, then keeps them talking on the way home. Her work in media, storytelling, community-building and growth shapes how the invitation reaches people and how the experience holds together from first interest to return.

Founder, Kaya Pala Media · Media, storytelling, community-building and growth

Gabe Mercado

Gabe Mercado

Master storyteller

Gabe listens for character, timing and the detail that turns information into something people remember. Decades in improvisation and performance inform how he works with hosts and the team to sharpen what belongs in the room.

Founder of SPIT Manila · President, Third World Improv · Producer, Manila Improv Festival · 30+ years across theater, television, film, music and applied improvisation

Where it led

New experiences enter only when the reason to go is stronger than the urge to add another stop.

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In the making

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New experiences will appear here as soon as they are released.

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