Imagine a guided tour, but instead of a luxury coach your transportation is a Boeing 757 outfitted with 50 first-class seats -- and the plane will fly you around the world in ultimate comfort to off-the-beaten-path locations to get rare glimpses of wildlife, immerse yourself in local culture and/or stay at famous, luxury resorts. This mode of travel exists, and though it's not cheap to buy a seat on one of these tours, it's a steadily growing niche.

Earlier this year, a handful of media and travel advisors were able to get a look at luxury tour operator Abercrombie & Kent’s private jet, which it uses for round-the-world tours for small groups of very discerning, pretty wealthy, travelers. In this episode, Ann Epting, A&K's senior vice president of private jet and special interest travel, and Rob Clabbers, the president of Q Cruise + Travel talk with host Rebecca Tobin about the type of traveler who books a private-jet tour, how the whole thing operates, the work that goes into planning and delivering an over-the-top private jet experience, the price of private-jet vacations and of course, the plane itself.

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Related links

Travel Weekly's cover story on private jet travel https://www.travelweekly.com/Luxury-Travel/Height-of-luxury-private-jet-tours

Abercrombie & Kent's fall private jet tour, "Wildlife and Nature Around the World" https://assets.abercrombiekent.com/pageflip/2024/Wildlife-Nature-ATW-PJ-2024/index.html

TCS World Travel https://www.tcsworldtravel.com/

Imagine a guided tour, but instead of a luxury coach your transportation is a Boeing 757 outfitted with 50 first-class seats -- and the plane will fly you around the world in ultimate comfort to off-the-beaten-path locations to get rare glimpses of wildlife, immerse yourself in local culture and/or stay at famous, luxury resorts. This mode of travel exists, and though it's not cheap to buy a seat on one of these tours, it's a steadily growing niche.
Earlier this year, a handful of media and travel advisors were able to get a look at luxury tour operator Abercrombie &amp; Kent’s private jet, which it uses for round-the-world tours for small groups of very discerning, pretty wealthy, travelers. In this episode, Ann Epting, A&amp;K's senior vice president of private jet and special interest travel, and Rob Clabbers, the president of Q Cruise + Travel talk with host Rebecca Tobin about the type of traveler who books a private-jet tour, how the whole thing operates, the work that goes into planning and delivering an over-the-top private jet experience, the price of private-jet vacations and of course, the plane itself.
Episode sponsor
This episode is sponsored by Travel Insured <a href="https://www.travelinsured.com">https://www.travelinsured.com</a>
Related links
Travel Weekly's cover story on private jet travel <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Luxury-Travel/Height-of-luxury-private-jet-tours">https://www.travelweekly.com/Luxury-Travel/Height-of-luxury-private-jet-tours</a>
Abercrombie &amp; Kent's fall private jet tour, "Wildlife and Nature Around the World" <a href="https://assets.abercrombiekent.com/pageflip/2024/Wildlife-Nature-ATW-PJ-2024/index.html">https://assets.abercrombiekent.com/pageflip/2024/Wildlife-Nature-ATW-PJ-2024/index.html</a>
TCS World Travel <a href="https://www.tcsworldtravel.com/ppc-landing-pages/new-brand?infinity=ict2~net~gaw~cmp~19608679863~ag~146343643195~ar~686133679165~kw~tcs%20private%20jet%20tours~mt~e~acr~5978532428&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=idx_google_brand_us-fr-au-nl_pros1_leads_paid-search&amp;utm_content=rsa&amp;utm_term=tcs%20private%20jet%20tours&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw26KxBhBDEiwAu6KXtxlxObrd28Vk1FbwbzAui4KsyRgFgE1nGiqKzLp1163fA0S3pCxGfhoCiRYQAvD_BwE">https://www.tcsworldtravel.com/</a>

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Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors take a deep dive into the biggest travel story of the week.&nbsp;
In each episode, we invite invite our team of journalists and their trusted sources to delve into major travel trends that industry insiders, or just travelers, want to know about. &nbsp;
You may be wondering: Why the Folo? Well, a folo -- f o l o -- is a journalism term, a kind of shorthand that basically means to follow a breaking news story with more in depth reporting and analysis. And at the Folo podcast, that's what we do.&nbsp;
Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.

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