TRAVEL. The only thing you buy that makes you richer.

Travel is more than leaving home – It is your chance to bounce away from home, exploring what other places have to offer. Did you know:

• Travel increases your intelligence
• Travel gives cultural, social opportunities
• Travel let’s you bask in all that is the Sun’s glory
• Travel broadens your horizons
• Travel improves you by boosting your confidence and communication skills.
• Travel creates lifelong memories

So – travel can really open you to the world, and yourself; the next question is how do you travel?

Reaching out to travel agents so that they can book your hotels, tours and airfare is great but, have you ever thought of contacting travel designers? You may not have known that there is a difference between travel agents and designers. Below we’ve prepared a guide which will help you to decide where to reach out for your next travel plan. The general difference between a travel designer and travel agent is their deep personal relationship between the professional and the client. There’s a level of trust and depth to their designs, deeper than that of a travel agent.

Travel Agent

Travel Agents help individuals, groups, and business travelers plan and organize their travel schedules, from purchasing tour packages to booking flights and hotels. They are familiar with the process and skilled to reply to customer queries in a timely manner. Here’s a list of common tasks Travel Agents achieve while delivering the travel plans:

• They work on client requests within the defined requirements of their client and rarely go the extra mile to deliver an exceptional holiday, but rather the basic pre-packaged holiday’s from their vendor. In other words they follow the guidelines strictly, which may or may not always result in a positive experience.
• They plan and organize basic vacation trips for individuals, families, or groups, overseeing all basic details including flights, hotels or accommodations, means of transportation, and activities.
• They stick to selling pre-made, at time’s ‘cookie cutter’ type, travel and vacation packages to their clients designed by hotels or cruise lines.

Travel Designers

The Travel Designer is very close to a travel agent but they are professionally edgy! Crafting and curating the perfect experience for your next holiday is a full-time job they believe in. Sourcing boutique or grande hotels, seeking out the best activities + their policies, learning the restaurants tucked away on side streets that serve the most mouth-watering local cuisine requires a professional’s in depth, personal touch, which only Travel Designers can do.

Your Travel Designer begins your planning by getting to know you personally, in depth and to your personal preferences so as to plan your personal experience rather than your vacation; they know how a marriage between your personality and your preferences can deliver an exceptional journey, and they’re skilled at it.

It’s about building the relationship in which travel designers are experts. Some could say they are perfect ‘destination matchmakers’. With years of experience, in-depth research skills, interpersonal vendor relationships, your travel designer always come up with exotic, curated, custom options within your budget. Travel designers work for you exclusively handling each client as a VIP. Travel Designers don’t hold a ‘list hierarchy’. It their eyes, their clients are all VIP. That’s why sometimes a travel designer is reserved for your more robust, customized travel intentions, and the latter Travel Agent is used to book a vacation. Here are some more points where they stand as designers:

• Travel Designers pride themselves on their distinctive tastes, detailed knowledge and they work in niche market segments. They might recommend lesser known boutique hotels, even destinations, that don’t necessarily have the instantly recognizable label or brand appeal. Most chosen properties are based on their experiences and relationships with that vendor. These are not easy to book either, as they don’t sell online or are dream getaways with highly curated itineraries.
• Travel Designers typically work with the niche end of the market, dealing with clients who are looking for comprehensive travel planning and guidance. They work with you to plan your travel as an experience and not as an itinerary. They prefer to offer out of box travel plans, opposed to a ‘cookie-cutter’ approach of an agent.
• Our Travel Designers develop long-term relationships, planning travel based on children (or not) ages, personal travel style, wish-list destinations, specific experiences, deep preferences, eccentricities and more…
• They connect best with travelers, and not tourists. Most often a traveler doesn’t know where they are going, and a tourist doesn’t know where they’ve been. Our clients, know where they’ve been. They’ll know it intimately.
• Travel designers work in a controlled ecosystem where they bring together ultimate players in the market and use their own expertise to design your quality experience which offers seamless satisfaction for you, our client.
• As a professionally edgy Travel Designer, they will dive deep with your preferences, desires, wants, needs and fantasy, curating an everlasting experience, each one bespoke. custom. curated.