Dakar-based Nouvelles Frontières (+823 34 34, nfsenegal.com) can tailor-make itineraries with English-speaking guides.
Salvador travel agent Tatur Turismo (+71 3450 7216) can tailor-make itineraries staying in one or more of these locations, including local transport and transfers.
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The Gigwell mobile app lets them vet offers and make travel itineraries on the go.
Simpson Travel will tailor-make an itinerary, pre-booking hotels and putting together a route.
Kubu Queen, Botswana A simple but comfortable houseboat plying the waters of the Okavango River, the Kubu Queen takes guests on tailor-made itineraries, making use of two accompanying tender boats to explore narrow channels and lagoons and spot hippos and crocodiles.
I spoke to a Madagascar expert at Rainbow Tours (020 7226 1004; rainbowtours.co.uk) who said that while it still offers holidays to the island it is making changes to itineraries, in particular focusing more on the north of the country.
These are people, remember, whose working lives revolve around juggling itineraries, making deals with airlines, calming stressed, delayed executives and generally ensuring that their companies' workers arrive in the best possible shape at the best possible time without going over budget.The reassuring thing about these tips was their ordinariness.
Trailfinders (0845 050 5858; trailfinders.com) can tailor-make an itinerary.
He said he made his itinerary before reserving the car and never hid his plans from Payless.
Alternatively, specialist operators such as Journey Latin America (0208 747 8315; journeylatinamerica.co.uk) will tailor-make an itinerary with options, including walking on glaciers with crampons and trekking.
