Israel - Circle of Trust
Naama Vered
Product Development | Vered Hasharon Travel Group
International Journey Designer & Global Connector
Trusted Member of the Epic Explorations Circle of Trust
Naama Vered is trusted because she understands that the most memorable journeys are not assembled from a list of attractions—they are designed around people, stories, relationships, and purpose. From our very first conversation, she recognized what Epic Explorations was trying to create and confidently challenged us to imagine experiences that could become genuinely meaningful.
Meet Naama Vered
Naama Vered represents the next generation of leadership at Vered Hasharon Travel Group, a family-rooted travel organization with a history reaching back to 1965. Her work spans sales, product development, and the North American and Oceania markets, bringing together creative journey design and the operational knowledge required to turn an ambitious idea into a seamless experience.
Vered Hasharon began in Israel and has grown into a multi-region destination management company with a network extending across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The company creates tailor-made journeys ranging from faith-based travel and cultural exploration to agriculture, gastronomy, nature, industry, and specialized educational programs. Its philosophy is grounded in respect for different religions, cultures, and people, while maintaining the personal attention of a smaller organization.
Naama brings that global reach into a very personal conversation. She listens for the purpose behind a journey and then begins connecting the right places, people, and possibilities. She is willing to move beyond the predictable itinerary, ask better questions, and help create something that reflects the interests and character of the travelers themselves.
Her approach is confident, practical, and refreshingly direct. When Naama believes an experience can become more meaningful, she says so—and then helps make it happen.
Guests traveling through an experience shaped by Naama should encounter more than historic places and celebrated landmarks. They should meet people who give those places meaning, hear stories that deepen their understanding, and experience moments that cannot be created by simply following a conventional itinerary. They should return home knowing not only where they traveled, but why the journey mattered.
What Naama Brings to an Epic Explorations Journey
Naama brings a rare combination of imagination, destination knowledge, international relationships, and practical product-development experience. She understands how to take the beginnings of an idea—even one that is still unconventional or difficult to define—and develop it into an experience that is both emotionally resonant and operationally sound.
Her contributions may include:
- Creative development of meaningful, customized itineraries
- Access to a far-reaching international network
- Connections with local guides, experts, hosts, and storytellers
- A deep understanding of Israel and the wider Middle East
- Experience with faith-based, cultural, agricultural, culinary, and special-interest travel
- Insight into the expectations of North American travelers
- Careful coordination between creative ideas and local operations
- The confidence to challenge familiar approaches when something more meaningful is possible
Naama does not merely ask where travelers want to go. She helps us explore what we want them to understand, whom they should meet, and what they should carry home with them.
What Naama May Help With
Naama and the team at Vered Hasharon Travel Group may help Epic Explorations with:
- Privately designed journeys in Israel
- Faith-based and biblical travel experiences
- Cultural and historical exploration
- Meetings with community leaders and local experts
- Agriculture, food-production, innovation, and technology programs
- Culinary and gastronomic experiences
- Nature and wildlife itineraries
- Educational and special-interest travel
- Experiences connecting ancient history with contemporary life
- Multi-country and multi-region journey planning
- Logistical coordination for complex group travel
- The development of new concepts that extend beyond traditional touring
Through Vered Hasharon’s international network, Naama may also help us explore possibilities well beyond Israel whenever a journey requires trusted local knowledge, specialized access, or creative coordination across destinations.
Why Naama Is Part of the Circle of Trust
Trust is built through what happens after the introductions have been made and the exciting ideas have been discussed. It is built by listening carefully, being honest about what is possible, solving problems, respecting the intent behind the journey, and following through on the details.
Naama is part of the Circle of Trust because she has demonstrated those qualities through the meaningful experiences we have designed together. She understands our belief that travel should connect guests with the humanity of a place rather than simply carry them from one attraction to another.
She also shares our willingness to begin with an idea that may not fit neatly into a conventional travel package. Instead of asking us to make the vision smaller or more familiar, she helps us discover how it can become real.
That combination of imagination, capability, candor, and shared purpose is precisely what the Epic Explorations Circle of Trust represents.
Naama’s Perspective
Naama approaches travel as an opportunity to create understanding between people. A destination becomes most powerful when travelers can encounter its traditions, beliefs, challenges, innovations, landscapes, and everyday life through the people who know it intimately.
Her perspective is also rooted in personalization. Every group arrives with different interests, backgrounds, expectations, and questions. The responsibility of the journey designer is to recognize those differences and create an experience that feels relevant to the people making the journey.
For Naama, meaningful travel does not happen accidentally. It comes from thoughtful design, strong local relationships, careful execution, and the willingness to look beyond what visitors already expect to see.
I remember the first time I met Naama. We were attending the National Tour Association’s Travel Exchange when she walked up to my table and, very matter-of-factly, told me that we were going to design some really meaningful experiences together.
There was no cautious sales pitch and no vague promise that we might find a way to work together someday. Naama had already recognized the common ground between us. She understood that I was not interested in creating another predictable itinerary, and she knew that she and the Vered Hasharon team could help us build something deeper.
She was right.
Since that first conversation, we have designed meaningful experiences together—journeys shaped not merely by where we could take people, but by what we wanted them to feel, discover, and understand. Naama has consistently brought ideas, connections, confidence, and an ability to see how the right people can transform an itinerary into a story.
I value people who are willing to speak clearly, dream boldly, and then do the hard work required to deliver what they envisioned. Naama does all three. That first declaration at Travel Exchange was not simply an introduction. It was the beginning of a trusted creative relationship—and the meaningful experiences she predicted have become a reality.
Experience Israel Through the People Who Know It Best
Naama helps Epic Explorations reveal Israel through its people, faith traditions, history, contemporary culture, and unexpected stories—creating journeys that connect the places travelers have imagined with the people who bring them to life.