About us

Meet Zahra, the heart behind Trendy Travel.

Trendy Travel Co. is owner-led by Zahra Samji Johnston, a Calgary-based travel connoisseur who helps clients request and review trips through her Trevello advisor channel.

Our team

Staff at Trendy Travel

Today, Trendy Travel is led by Zahra. Her work is personal, detail-minded, and shaped by a genuine love of helping people see more of the world.

Zahra Johnston, owner of Trendy Travel Co. Owner

Owner, mom, and travel connoisseur

Zahra Samji Johnston

Zahra built Trendy Travel Co. from a love of travel that has always been about more than flights and hotel rooms. To her, travel is the feeling of stepping into a new place, sharing a meal you will talk about for years, watching your children experience something for the first time, and coming home with stories that belong only to you.

As a mother of four, Zahra understands how much trust goes into planning time away. She and her husband, Kevin, are raising a blended family; two of their children came into her life through Kevin's previous marriage, and they are hers too in every way that matters. That family lens shapes the way she plans: thoughtful, practical, warm, and always aware that every trip is tied to real people, real budgets, and real memories.

Zahra is also a Director of Mahogany Scholars Preschool in Calgary, where her daily work is rooted in care, patience, organization, and helping families feel supported. Those same strengths carry into Trendy Travel. She listens carefully, compares options clearly, watches for value, and helps travelers feel confident before requests move through her Trevello advisor workflow.

Her goal is simple: to share her love of travel with everyone she serves. Whether someone is dreaming about a premium Palace Resorts stay, a family-friendly all-inclusive, a romantic escape, a cruise, or a once-in-a-lifetime itinerary, Zahra wants them to feel looked after from the first idea to the final boarding pass.

On the site: cartoon Zahra is the friendly guide version of the real Zahra, pointing visitors toward booking, deals, premium stays, and planning help.

Zahra's approach

Travel planning with heart, taste, and follow-through.

Zahra brings a personal eye to every booking. She wants clients to feel the joy of travel without getting buried in tabs, confusing supplier rules, and package fine print.

She loves the discovery.

Zahra enjoys the hunt for the right destination, the right resort, and the right value. She looks beyond the headline price to understand the experience: location, room category, dining, transfers, family fit, adult atmosphere, and the little details that can change a vacation.

She wants travel to feel possible.

Trendy Travel was created to help people compare options with clarity. Zahra knows that a dream trip can feel overwhelming at first, so she breaks the process down into comfortable choices and helps clients move forward with confidence.

She believes value matters.

Getting a good deal does not always mean choosing the cheapest option. For Zahra, value means matching the trip to the traveler: the right dates, the right airport, the right package, and the right level of comfort for the occasion.

What clients can expect

A real person who cares about the trip as much as the booking.

Zahra's promise is to treat every itinerary like it matters, because it does. A vacation might be a honeymoon, a birthday, a reset, a first family trip, or the one week a year everyone can finally get away together. Trendy Travel exists to make that time feel well chosen, well supported, and worth looking forward to.

Careful listening before quoting Local departure options when available Premium and family-friendly package guidance Human support before final booking and after travel
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