MEET OUR FOUNDER : LUIZ FAYE
Luxury travel, experienced differently.
Luiz Faye founded The Inclusive Edit after years of travelling, staying in luxury hotels and noticing the space between what high-end hospitality promises and how it sometimes works in practice for disabled guests.
A wheelchair user, adaptive sport leader, former police officer and experienced storyteller, Luiz brings a perspective rarely centred in luxury travel: one shaped by lived experience, editorial judgement and a deep understanding of what access, service, design and guest confidence feel like in real life.
The Inclusive Edit was created to help travellers choose with more confidence, and to help the industry understand what excellence looks like when everyone is considered from the beginning.
Before The Inclusive Edit
Before founding The Inclusive Edit, Luiz spent ten years in policing. It was work rooted in service, responsibility and people. It taught her how to observe, how to listen, how to read a situation quickly, and how much the details matter when people are relying on you.
In 2016, Luiz was medically retired after being diagnosed with a degenerative condition affecting her spine, pelvis and legs. The life and career she had built changed in ways she hadn’t chosen, and she became a wheelchair user.
That change altered the way she moved through the world. It didn’t lessen her standards for how the world should meet her.
Before founding The Inclusive Edit, Luiz also built a body of work across television, advertising and sports media, combining lived experience, public storytelling and commercial audience growth.
The Punchbag in the Corner
During rehab with her personal trainer, Luiz noticed a punch bag in the corner of the room. She assumed it wasn’t for her.
Her trainer simply asked, “Why don’t you do it in your chair?”
It was a small question that opened something much bigger.
Luiz bought a pair of gloves, began training from her wheelchair and went looking for an adaptive boxing pathway. When she realised that very little existed, she started building one.
In 2019, Luiz became the World Boxing Council’s first female adaptive boxing coach. In 2020, she became one of the first wheelchair users in the country to qualify as an England Boxing coach. She went on to found Kronik Warrior UK, an adaptive boxing and wellbeing organisation supporting disabled people and people with long-term health conditions through movement, confidence and community.
The woman who had went to a gym for physio grieving what she’d lost would, four years later, help rewrite what felt possible within the sport.
Her work has since been recognised for its contribution to adaptive sport and community wellbeing, including attendance at The King’s Garden Party for services to sport, a feature on ITV’s Driving Force, and The Kartik Foundation Unsung Hero Award with Variety, the Children’s Charity.
That work shaped the way Luiz sees possibility. Not as something inspirational from a distance, but as something practical, structured and built properly.
Then she started travelling the world. And noticed something.
Travel became another way of understanding the world.
Luiz has travelled to 15 countries as a wheelchair user, staying in some of the world’s most celebrated properties. Visiting beautiful destinations and experiencing the difference between access that exists on paper and access that works in practice.
She found that the accessible room might be there. The lift might work. The website might mention step-free access.
But luxury is not only about whether a guest can physically enter a space.
It is about how arrival feels. Whether the room works. Whether dining is easy. Whether the spa, terrace, beach, transfer, excursion or city route has been thought through properly. Whether staff understand without making the guest feel like a problem to solve.
It is about confidence before arrival and ease once you are there.
That is where The Inclusive Edit began.
Luiz decided to be that person.
The Inclusive Edit
The Inclusive Edit is built on a simple belief:
The finest things should be considered from the beginning.
This is not an accessibility directory. It is not a checklist. It is not about lowering the standard or creating a separate version of luxury travel.
It is a luxury travel platform exploring what happens when access, service, design and hospitality are considered together.
Through first-person reviews, destination features, guest journey insight and industry commentary, The Inclusive Edit looks beyond published accessibility information to understand how a place actually feels in practice.
From hotels and spas to aviation, cruise, rail, restaurants, destinations and milestone travel, the work asks one central question:
Does the experience hold together beautifully for guests who experience the world differently?
When it does, The Inclusive Edit celebrates it.
When there are gaps, it explains them clearly, constructively and with the guest experience in mind.
Because true luxury is not fragile. It should be thoughtful enough, confident enough and well-designed enough to include more people in the experience it promises.
For Travellers And The Industry
For travellers, The Inclusive Edit offers confidence. It helps people choose places that understand access as part of comfort, dignity, beauty and ease.
For hotels, destinations and travel brands, it offers insight. Not from a policy document, but from real guest experience, editorial expertise and a commercially grounded understanding of what luxury travel is expected to deliver.
The Inclusive Edit exists for the travellers who want more than basic access information.
It exists for the brands who understand that inclusion is not a campaign.
It is part of the standard.
The Inclusive Edit
Luxury travel, held to the standard it sets itself.
Luiz Faye. Founder, The Inclusive Edit.
