Couple overlooking Saint Lucia's Pitons at sunset

Romance Travel Group Honored with Four Top Awards from Lomas Hospitality

Romance Travel Group received four major awards from Lomas Hospitality, including the Lomas Legacy Award, recognizing its destination wedding sales and longstanding partnership. Shelli Nornes credits the RTG team, resort partners, and couples for the relationships and experience behind the honors.

Shelli Nornes, CEO & Owner, Romance Travel Group
By Shelli Nornes
CEO & Owner, Romance Travel Group
Published September 16, 2026
Last updated September 16, 2026

Romance Travel Group was honored with four major awards from Lomas Hospitality during its recent awards celebration in Mexico, recognizing RTG for its destination wedding sales, partnership, and longstanding relationship with the Lomas organization.

Romance Travel Group received:

  • Top Lomas Travel Producer
  • Top Wedding Producer
  • Pearl Award, the highest level of sales recognition
  • Lomas Legacy Award, the highest overall honor presented during the evening

While each award was incredibly meaningful, the Lomas Legacy Award was an especially unexpected honor.

During the presentation, the Legacy Award was described as recognizing qualities including “loyalty, vision, energy, creativity,” with Lomas calling it the “true MVP of the night.”

For Romance Travel Group founder Shelli Nornes, the recognition represents much more than sales.

“I am incredibly grateful and humbled by these awards, but none of this happens because of one person,” said Nornes. “I have an amazing team at Romance Travel Group, and every wedding we sell, every couple we care for, every problem we solve and every relationship we build is a team effort. I may have been the one accepting the awards, but they belong to all of us.”

Attendees at the Grupo Lomas awards celebration in Mexico

A Partnership Built Over Many Years

Romance Travel Group has specialized exclusively in destination weddings for nearly three decades, helping couples plan weddings throughout Mexico and the Caribbean.

Over those years, relationships with trusted resort and hospitality partners have become an important part of the company’s success. The relationship with Lomas Hospitality is one of those longstanding partnerships.

“We are extremely grateful for the trust, loyalty and support the entire Lomas team has shown Romance Travel Group over the years,” Nornes said. “Great partnerships are built by people who trust one another, support one another and genuinely want to see each other succeed. I’m very proud of what we have accomplished together and even more excited about what is still ahead.”

Group on stage during the Lomas awards celebration with Romance Travel Group displayed behind them

What These Awards Mean for Our Couples

Awards are wonderful, but for Romance Travel Group, their real value is what they represent: experience.

Destination weddings are all we do.

That specialization has allowed our team to develop deep relationships throughout Mexico and the Caribbean, understand the complexities of destination wedding group contracts, and advocate for our couples and their guests throughout the entire planning and travel process.

After nearly 30 years and hundreds of destination weddings, we are still learning, building relationships and looking for ways to make the experience better for the couples who trust us with one of the biggest celebrations of their lives.

To the entire Lomas team, our incredible Romance Travel Group team, our resort partners, and especially the couples who have trusted us with their destination weddings over the years... thank you.

These four awards belong to all of us.

And we cannot wait to see what comes next.

To learn more about Romance Travel Group or to work with their team of destination wedding experts to plan your wedding, visit www.RomanceTravelGroup.com.