Shannon McEvoy is a Certified Accessible Travel Advisor and the founder of Defying Limits Travel, an accessibility forward luxury travel agency based in Clermont, Florida. She worked as a luxury concierge at top Orlando resorts from 2008 to 2022, and she opened Defying Limits Travel in 2022. She has 945+ trips booked for Defying Limits Travel clients and 99+ five star reviews for Defying Limits Travel.
Shannon is a queer Latina, and Defying Limits Travel is women, Latino, LGBTQ+, and disabled owned. She lives with non-celiac gluten intolerance (NCGI), so she knows from her own meals what it takes to eat safely away from home.
Her clients include travelers with celiac disease, alpha-gal syndrome, and severe food allergies, autistic and neurodivergent travelers and their families, wheelchair users and travelers with other mobility needs, and LGBTQIA+ couples planning honeymoons. Before she books anything, she verifies in writing the details that travel websites leave vague, from bathroom door widths to kitchen protocols. Her standard is that accessible doesn't always mean usable, so every detail is confirmed before the traveler arrives.
For Disney trips, Shannon does not coach clients on obtaining the Disability Access Service. When a family does not qualify, she builds a Lightning Lane plan around historically shorter waits and teaches them how to use it before they go.
Shannon is an IBCCES Certified Autism Travel Professional, a Certified Accessible Travel Advocate (SNG CATA), and Celiac travel trained and verified. Defying Limits Travel was voted a Central Florida Favorite Travel Agency by the Orlando Sentinel in 2025, and Shannon was named a KHM Travel Group Rising Rookie in 2026. She is an expert co-author on wikiHow and has been quoted by the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and GO Magazine.
Accessibility isn't a special request. It's built in from day one.
