” So, you DON’T want to book a group tour, or a private trip with every arrangement pre-booked as a package, but if you did, there are some excellent tour operators and travel agents for that.

But let’s say, all you’d like is to know where to go, which accommodation to book, and what to do when you’re there. Accommodation can be safely booked online (often fully refundable) and travel and day trips can be booked locally, with more of the cash going directly into the local economy. But since you don’t know the destination well, you want advice from someone that does, without the pretence that you’ll book a trip with them.

Tripwen can help with that. Just ask. 问 Wen is to ask.

Right now is a time when safely booking travel arrangements online couldn’t be easier, and this coincides with a surplus of travel professionals thrown out of the industry by the pandemic. The traveller gets real travel advice from a real expert in that area, and the destination expert gets an income from using their vast pool of knowledge.

The traveller is then able to book travel arrangements directly with hotels or trusted third-party websites, with confidence that they are booking arrangements that are right for them.

The savings made on tour operator fees are vast.”

Simon, the traveller behind Tripwen