01The journal
Notes from a travelling house.
The magazine of the house, in three sections: news from Dip Needle; essays and addresses for travellers; craft, commerce and technology for the advisors who arrange journeys for others.
02Articles
7 articles
- 02
The connected travel business
An independent advisor’s real asset is what they know about their clients. The case for keeping that knowledge beside the booking, the quote and the trip.
- 03
The art of a good brief
The dinner you still think about, the hotel you would not return to, the reason for going: the brief that produces a personal journey is made of particulars.
- 04
What the room rate leaves out
Two rates for the same suite can describe two different stays. The comparison worth making is the whole booking: the address, the privileges and the terms.
- 05
Yunnan, beyond the postcard
Dali beside its lake, Shaxi’s old market square, Lijiang and the mountains behind it: ten days in Yunnan with a private guide and time to look properly.
- 06
The case for the second morning
Every itinerary is an argument about time. Ours leaves room: a second morning in Shaxi, four nights at one Dolomites base, an afternoon nobody has planned.
- 07
Dip Needle, recalibrated
Dip Needle has been recalibrated: the same instinct for the world’s finest addresses, a sharper instrument for reaching them, and four routes into the house.