Travel Planner

Day to day, you're designing custom travel experiences for clients — researching accommodations, mapping out day-by-day itineraries, selecting transportation options, identifying experiences that suit the specific travelers. Each trip is a small custom build; you're not pulling a package off a shelf but assembling the pieces into something coherent and memorable for that client.

The rhythm mixes client consultation (discovery calls, refinement conversations, final approval) with research and supplier coordination (checking availability, getting quotes, confirming bookings) and follow-through (sending documents, tracking pre-travel details, handling pre-departure questions). Existing clients return for the next trip; new clients come through referrals from those clients. Building the supplier network — knowing which boutique hotel to call, which ground operator has the best guides in a specific region — happens over years.

The satisfaction is in the building itself: constructing an itinerary that reflects a client's travel style and aspirations in ways a search engine can't. The frustration is the invisible work — hours of research and supplier coordination that the client never sees — and the occasional client who does it with you and then books somewhere cheaper.