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Trufflepig Travel

Owners

Jack Dancy

Jack Dancy

Founder

Greg Sacks

Greg Sacks

Founder

The record

Founded

2004

Head office

Toronto, Canada

Also in

Beaune, France

Languages

English

The house

Trufflepig combines a distinctive approach to travel, deep first-hand expertise and, most importantly, the ability to listen. Every trip begins with understanding the client’s requests, hopes, dreams and particularities. When hiring planners, we value travel experience and regional knowledge, but place even greater importance on empathy and the ability to see the world through someone else’s eyes.

Our planning team spends more than 500 days a year on the road, inspecting hotels, camps and lodges, vetting partners and guides, testing activities, meals and transport, getting lost, taking notes and forming informed opinions. We combine this proprietary knowledge with what we learn from each client, starting every journey from a blank slate. In 22 years, we have never planned the same trip twice.

There is, however, a Trufflepig house style. We seek worth rather than price and value the small, spontaneous experience as highly as the great indulgence. We once sent a queen to a tiny French B&B costing less than $100, and it became her favorite place. Our Trip Piglet covers every logistical detail while pointing clients toward the right walk, view, shop, bar, winery, farm or conversation. Those moments often become travel’s most enduring memories, and our job is to create the conditions in which they can happen.

 

The practice

Where they send

Europe Our Europe planners live in their countries of expertise
Eastern and Southern Africa
Asia Our planners for Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Mongolia & Bhutan are listed on Wendy Perrin’s WOW list, Condé Nast Traveller’s Top Travel Specialists list and/or Travel + Leisure’s A-List.

Main areas of specialty

Private Journeys We offer 5-year planning services, for families wanting to optimize their immediate and medium-term planning windows.
Family Travel We view investment in travel as investment in family and shared memories, to be managed as one would manage a savings portfolio.
European Discovery Our on-site teams design European private journeys ranging from bike trips, food and wine focused itineraries and fully guided or self-drive programs.

In-house

The Team 48 travel designers and staff across our various locations worldwide
Worldwide Presence Trufflepig runs a full-time office in Beaune, Burgundy, France, and our Europe & North Africa planners live in their countries of expertise: Greece, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, Italy and the UK. Our Africa planning team spend months on the ground in Africa.
Operational Capabilities Trufflepig undertakes over 500 cumulative days of on-the-ground research per year, to maintain our direct relationships with suppliers and partners, and to deepen and broaden our direct expertise in and understanding of the places in which we operate.
Full Control We maintain a full-time operational office in France and satellite offices across Europe allowing us not only to plan but also to operate our own trips in Europe without using DMCs and white-label travel wholesalers.
The Sounder Magazine We maintain an online magazine — The Sounder — to showcase our research, approach to travel and musings on the travel industry and landscape.

Standing

Affiliations

The Alliance — member house

Certified B Corporation (B Lab) — Certified in August 2022, B Impact Score 104.3 against a qualifying threshold of 80. Workers 41.9, Community 26.7, Governance 22.1, Environment 8.7, Customers 4.7.

Belmond Bellini Club — Belmond Bellini Club member agency

In print

Wendy Perrin 2026 WOW List — Italy expert

Forbes — "Why Private Adventure Trips Are Booming" — Everett Potter. Names Trufflepig as a company specializing in fully bespoke private travel.

Forbes — "Inspired Travel From Trufflepig" — Everett Potter. Full interview with co-founder Greg Sacks covering the company's origins in guiding at Butterfield & Robinson, its salaried (non-commission) planner model and its research practice

The New York Times — "Bespoke Luxury Travel, From $100,000 and Up" — Greg Sacks quoted on Trufflepig's first million-dollar trip

National Geographic Traveler — "50 Tours of a Lifetime" (Best Tours in Africa) — Names Trufflepig Travel as operator of the Bushman Initiation Hunt & Kubu Island Quad Bike Safari, 15 days, $17,825