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A private travel advisory placing paying clients in adventure and expedition travel. Everything your rates desk or partnership team needs to check is on this page.
Wadi Rum, Jordan
The practice in one paragraph
The Travelling T is a private travel advisory for adventure and expedition travel: polar voyages, safari and wildlife, rail, small ships, wild coasts, and the places worth staying between them. We travel each route before we sell it, then send clients. We book through Trevello, a member of Virtuoso, so your contracting, commission and amenity systems already know how to handle us. Our clients are active, well-travelled people, most of them over forty, travelling from across Canada and the United States, who want one advisor to arrange the whole trip and stay accountable for it.
The register
Set as type, not as badges, so you can copy each line straight into a profile or a rate-loading request. Registration numbers are shared on request.
What partners can expect from us
A rates desk sorts inbound approaches into advisors and creators. We are the first kind. The content we make is a by-product of travelling the routes, never the price of a rate.
01 · Travellers
Clients arrive knowing the room, the rhythm of the day and what the property is good at. We send a written note a week before arrival, and again the day before if anything changes.
02 · Reach
Field reports in our journal, a newsletter and our social channels reach people already planning with an advisor. Coverage is earned by staying, and is never bundled into a rate request.
03 · Briefs
Occasions, dietary needs, mobility, pacing and preferences in one clean note, sent once and early, so your team is not piecing a guest together from three emails.
04 · Payment
Deposits and balances paid on your schedule through Trevello, the host agency. Commission on your usual terms, reconciled against your statements.
05 · Visits
We would rather see a property than read about it. We welcome site inspections and fam trips, and we say plainly when a visit was hosted.
For owners
A separate, private service: an anonymous stay or guided day, followed by a personal Guest Letter on how it felt to be your guest. The Quiet Guest →
The partners we look for
If you run one of these, and your guests would recognise our clients as their own, we would like to hear from you.
Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and Arctic sailings with strong guiding and small landing groups.
Botswana, Rwanda and Uganda first, with ground teams who brief guests well and handle the in-between days.
Journeys that are the trip rather than the transfer, with the hotels at either end arranged as one piece.
Where the boat is the hotel: Raja Ampat, the Red Sea and wild coastal routes with a dozen cabins or fewer.
Properties that are a reason to go, from the Colombian coffee region to the Canadian Rockies.
DMCs and guiding companies in Peru, Jordan, Indonesia and Mexico who run private departures well.
How we present partners
Every card on our Stays page says whether it is a place we have stayed or one on our desk shortlist. We use your permitted imagery or our own photographs, we say what the Virtuoso amenities are and what they are not, and we never show a price on a stay. Where we have stayed, the card links to our field note in the journal.
Tuscany, Italy · Field note in the journal
A former monastery on the hill at Fiesole, above Florence. Right for a slow three nights after a busy week in the city.
Example layout. Amenities shown are the typical Virtuoso set; each card carries the property's own published amenities.
What partners get
We photograph every place we stay. Partners can use these images with credit, and the same frames appear on our Stays page and in the journal, captioned with the real place. A few from recent stays:
All six are our own photographs. Where we cannot be certain which property a frame shows, we do not name one.
Media kit
Profile, registrations, client profile, regions sold, journal and social channels, and examples of how partners appear on the site. Audience figures are counted, not estimated, and dated.
A separate conversation
The Quiet Guest is a paid, confidential service, an anonymous stay and a personal letter afterwards. It is kept apart from bookings on purpose, so a rate never buys a report and a report never buys a rate.
Partner enquiry
A rate to load, an advisor program to join, a site inspection, a fam, or simply an introduction. Write to us here or at info@thetravellingtunia.com, and we reply within two business days.
Trevello, a member of Virtuoso