A Cognac DMC for travel agents and tour operators

Let us be direct about who this is for

If your clients travel to find crowds, to queue for the photograph a magazine told them to take, to sleep in the same international hotel they would find in any other capital, and to eat where the guidebooks send them rather than where the locals go, then we are the wrong partner and we would rather say so now.

If your clients want to stop in the countryside instead of driving through it, and to meet the people who live and work there, read on.

What the Cognac region actually offers

• There is no Eiffel Tower here. There is a dense vernacular heritage: Romanesque churches, fortified farms, Renaissance manors, all of it scattered across the vineyard and none of it ticketed.
• Five cars in a row counts as a traffic jam. Your clients will not queue.
• Seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings have been converted into small hotels and guest houses with real character rather than demolished.
• A spirit that takes decades to reach the bottle imposes a certain rhythm on the people who make it, and on the visitors who come to understand it.
• The region has never chased the spotlight, which is precisely why it has not been overrun.

The Cognac vineyards sit within ninety minutes of Bordeaux, La Rochelle and Poitiers, on the route between Spain and the Loire valley. The destination slots naturally into a wider France itinerary, or stands on its own for three to five nights.

How we work with the trade

Net rates and clear margins

Confidential net pricing on all ground services, so that you build your own selling price. No public-facing rates that undercut you.

Ready-to-sell programmes

Costed itineraries of one to five days that you can lift into your brochure or your website, covering guided excursions, distillery visits, tastings, e-bike rides, gastronomy and accommodation.

White label packages

Programmes built to complete an existing France offer and to be sold under your own brand. We supply descriptive copy and images, and we stay invisible to the end client if that is what you need.

Tailor made requests

Send us a profile and a budget, and we build the itinerary around it. Wine and spirits specialists, cycling groups, gastronomy travellers, incentive groups, multi-generational families and small private groups are all regular briefs for us.

Single point of contact beyond our territory

Through our membership of France DMC Alliance, the network of French incoming agencies, we coordinate with vetted colleagues when an itinerary extends into Bordeaux, the Loire, the Basque country or beyond, while you keep one interlocutor.