Tour Operators Editing and Proofreading Services

A tour itinerary is a promise about how fourteen days will feel, written by someone who knows the route and read by someone who does not. The document that sells the trip is the same document the traveller judges it against, and the two most common failures are opposite: an itinerary that reads as a relaxed cultural journey and is in fact five hours on a coach most days, and one so packed with listed inclusions that nobody notices the four sites in a single afternoon are twenty minutes each.

We edit what tour operators and packaged travel companies produce — day-by-day itineraries and their pacing, inclusion and exclusion lists, accommodation descriptions and standards, transport, transfer and journey time information, meal arrangements and what is included, optional excursion descriptions and costs, group size and traveller profile information, fitness and mobility requirements, single supplement and room-sharing arrangements, tour leader and local guide information, pre-departure documentation, booking conditions and financial protection statements, cancellation and amendment terms, and post-tour feedback and repeat traveller material. Our editors work on the itinerary as the document the trip will be measured against.

The day-by-day itinerary is where expectation is set, and honest pacing is the discipline nobody applies. Itineraries are written as lists of destinations because destinations are what sells, and the driving between them is compressed into a phrase — "we continue to", "en route we stop at", "arriving in the late afternoon". We rewrite these so every day states the actual travelling time and the road, since six hours on a mountain road is a different day from six hours on a motorway; so what is a full visit is distinguished from what is a photograph stop, because four sites in an afternoon means four short stops and travellers should know which is which; so the free time is stated as free time rather than concealed, as it is what many travellers most want; so the early starts are named, since a 5:30 departure on three mornings changes who should book; and so the physically demanding element of any day is flagged where it occurs. Operators who write the pacing honestly get travellers who chose that pace and rebook.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including itineraries, supplier arrangements and commercial terms. We are editors rather than travel, legal or regulatory advisers, and we offer no view on package travel regulation, financial protection requirements or any operational matter. What we can do is make the itinerary describe the trip the traveller will actually have.