For hotel and supplier rates desks
The advisor, not the press trip
A private travel advisory placing paying clients in adventure and expedition travel, on six continents. Everything a rates desk needs to check is on this page.
Raja Ampat, Indonesia
The register
Who we are, in the form you need it
We book through a host agency, so the registrations here are the ones your contracting and commission systems want. Copy them straight off the page.
More on the practice is on our about page, and what travellers pay us is on how we work.
How a booking works
A commissionable booking, and a guest who arrives briefed
We book direct with the property under our IATA number wherever the brand allows it, because that is the route where the guest keeps their own loyalty number and status, and you keep the relationship and the data rather than handing both to a wholesaler.
The guest pays what you charge. There is no markup on the room and no booking fee, and the commission comes from you on the usual terms. That is the whole commercial arrangement, and it is the same one printed on our client-facing pages, so nobody is being told two versions of it.
What we are asking for
Your advisor or agent rate, and the name of whoever handles it. If a rate needs loading, or you would rather quote each booking by email, say which and we will work that way.
What you get from the booking
A guest who has been told what to expect before they arrive. We send every client a written note about a week ahead, and again the day before if anything has changed, which is where most of the small complaints at check-in come from.
What we will not ask you for
A complimentary stay in exchange for coverage. If a property wants an independent read on its guest journey, that is The Quiet Guest, a separate paid service on its own page, and it is never bundled into a rate request.
Where we place clients
The extent of it, by destination
Every one of these is a trip we plan and have travelled ourselves, written up in full on the journeys pages. It is the honest answer to whether our clients go to places like yours.
- Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falklands
- Ice · expedition ship
- Antarctic Peninsula
- Ice · expedition ship
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia
- Below the surface · liveaboard
- Red Sea, Egypt
- Below the surface
- Colombia
- On foot
- Peru
- On foot
- Jordan
- On foot
- Botswana
- Animals · safari
- Rwanda and Uganda
- Animals
- Tuscany, Italy
- Slow
- The Douro Valley, Portugal
- Slow
- The Yucatan, Mexico
- Slow
If you were sent here by mistake
There are two different conversations, and this is the first one
Rates, bookings and commission
This page. Write to us and we will tell you what we are working on and roughly when.
Partnerships and an independent guest review
Advisor programs, site inspections and fams are on our partners page. An anonymous review of your guest journey is The Quiet Guest, a separate paid service. We keep the two apart on purpose, so a rate never buys a report and a report never buys a rate.
Get in touch
One address, read by the people who book
Tell us the property, the rate you can extend, and who handles it. If it is easier, send us your trade terms and we will read them and come back with anything we need.
We are often somewhere between time zones. Email reaches us wherever we are, and it is the only address we answer from. Prefer a form? Use the partner enquiry.