Jordan
Wadi Rum & Petra
A slow week through the Nabatean rose city, then desert silence at a Bedouin camp under the Milky Way.
Travel atelier · Dubai · est. since
Designed,
Designed,
not packaged.
Your Business is a small, deliberate travel atelier. We write itineraries by hand, hold the ground teams on speed dial, and answer the phone at three in the morning when the flight you took five hours ago lands in the wrong city.
Featured · Wadi Rum, Jordan
"They knew the driver by name, the tea pot by year, and the back road that skipped the queue at the border."
Publication One · 2025Editor's letter
// 01 · featured destinations
Six places we
know by hand.
Curated, not collated. We do not list every country we can sell — only the ones we have walked, slept in, and have local teams we would put our families with.
Morocco
Marrakech to the Atlas
Riad mornings in the medina, then a quiet drive south to Berber villages and the snowline of the High Atlas.
Tanzania
Serengeti & Zanzibar
A small camp on the migration corridor, then four nights of shutters drawn against the noon sun on the spice coast.
Japan
Kyoto & the Setouchi
Old wooden ryokan, knife-makers in Sakai, and the inland sea by ferry from Naoshima down to Teshima.
Italy
Puglia & the Amalfi
Whitewashed trulli, olive harvests, and a private boat down a coast best read at low speed.
Iceland
The Westfjords
Empty roads, hot springs hidden from the ring road, and a pair of nights in a lighthouse-keeper's cottage.
// 02 · how we travel
Four ways
we travel.
Most agencies sell a brochure. We build trips around how a person rests, eats, and recovers. Pick the posture and we will write the rest.
The escape
Five to seven nights, one base, one rhythm. Pool by morning, longer dinners, no transfers. The trip you book when the year has been long.
The expedition
Two countries, three regions, ground transport where it improves the route. A working photographer's pace — early starts, fewer hotels, longer drives.
The ceremony
Weddings, anniversaries, milestone birthdays. Group blocks, ground hosts, dietary lists, and a single point of contact who answers in your time zone.
The custom
You bring the brief — a sailing leg, a wine harvest, a school break — and we write a route around it. Quotes are itemised, not bundled.
// 03 · featured packages
Four trips,
written down.
A selection of the routes we write most often. Every line is editable — change a hotel, a flight class, or a leg, and we will re-quote.
Heritage · culture
Petra by first light
Seven nights between Amman, Petra, and a private camp in Wadi Rum. Two private guides, one driver, no group buses.
Day 01Amman, the souks of Downtown, dinner at a private home in Jabal Amman.
Day 02Slow drive south via Madaba and Mount Nebo; first night at Mövenpick Petra.
Day 03Petra at sunrise — a quiet entry through the back trail; afternoon at the High Place.
Day 04Transfer to Wadi Rum; Bedouin lunch, dune drive, two nights at Memories Aicha.
Per person, twin sharefrom AED 9,400
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Safari · coast
Serengeti to Stone Town
Ten nights — six on the migration corridor with a small mobile camp, then four on the Indian Ocean side of Zanzibar.
Day 01Arusha overnight; bush briefing and an early dinner at Legendary Lodge.
Day 02Light aircraft into the central Serengeti; first game drive on arrival.
Day 06Transfer to Zanzibar; quiet check-in to Xanadu Villas, sundowners by the dhow.
Day 09Stone Town walk with a local historian, tea on the roof of Emerson on Hurumzi.
Per person, twin sharefrom AED 22,800
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Slow · ryokan
Kyoto, by side street
Nine nights between Kyoto, Naoshima, and a working onsen ryokan in the Hyogo countryside. Local rail, no tour buses.
Day 01Kyoto; check in to Hoshinoya, evening at a Pontocho-machiya kaiseki.
Day 03Day trip to Sakai for a private tour of a third-generation knife forge.
Day 05Shinkansen to Okayama; ferry to Naoshima, two nights at Benesse House.
Day 08Return via the inland sea; final night at a 400-year-old onsen ryokan.
Per person, twin sharefrom AED 18,600
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Coast · slow boat
Puglia, the quiet route
Eight nights between a masseria in Itria, a private boat down the Salento coast, and three nights tucked into the heel of Italy.
Day 01Bari arrival; transfer to Borgo Egnazia, dinner in a 14th-century olive grove.
Day 03Drive to Alberobello and Locorotondo; private oil-mill visit with a fourth-generation owner.
Day 05Charter a 16-metre gozzo from Otranto; lunch at sea, swim stops, return at dusk.
Day 07Lecce by foot — cathedral at sunset, supper in a private courtyard near Sant'Oronzo.
Per person, twin sharefrom AED 12,400
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Founder · principal
// 04 · about the atelier
A small atelier,
A small atelier,
by design.
Your Business is a Dubai-licensed travel atelier founded in 2014 by Your Name — Your credentials, Your years between the GCC, the Levant, and East Africa. The brief, then and now, was simple: build the agency we would have wanted as travellers.
That meant a smaller client list, longer briefings, and a refusal to be a reseller for chains. It meant itineraries written by hand, ground partners we have stayed with, and quotes that itemise every line so you can see exactly what the trip costs and why.
Today the atelier writes around two hundred trips a year, by referral and inquiry only. We do not run mass campaigns or flash sales. We answer the line at three in the morning.
Accreditation
IATA · licensed
Trade body
TAAI · UFTAA
Founded
2014 · Dubai
Coverage
42 · countries
// 05 · traveller words
In their
own words.
A small selection. Names with permission, edited for length only. We do not run incentive programmes for reviews and we do not offer commission for referrals.
Trip · Wadi Rum & Petra
Two of our flights were cancelled in two days and they re-routed both before we knew. The trip felt like it had a producer, not an agent.
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Client name
Verified · 7 nights
Trip · Serengeti & Zanzibar
The camp manager remembered our daughter's name and her allergy from a brief sent in February. That is the kind of detail you cannot fake.
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Client name
Verified · 10 nights
Trip · Kyoto & the Setouchi
Itemised quotes, written briefings, and a private number that always rings. The first agency I have used twice in a row.
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Client name
Verified · 9 nights
// 06 · plan a trip
Tell us where
you would like to go.
A brief is enough. We will reply within four working hours, in English or Arabic, with two written outline options and a sensible question about the rest.
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