Handcrafting Adventures Since 2020
About Andrew Burns
Travel is personal, and your trip should be too. I’m Andrew Burns, and since 2020 I’ve planned bespoke journeys for the couples and families who want more than a booking: trips shaped entirely around who they are and how they want to feel along the way. From my base in Wisconsin, I work with travelers across the country and design for destinations around the world.
Every itinerary draws on places and experiences I know firsthand, so the recommendations you get are the ones I genuinely trust, never a name pulled from a brochure. Nothing is off the shelf; each plan is built from scratch around your pace, your people, and the moments you’ll remember.
My own heart is in Africa. Safari is where my passion for travel began, and it’s still the trip I most love designing, though whether your dream is a game drive at dawn or something else entirely, my job is to build it around you.
I started Andrew Burns Travel Co. in January 2020. I’m accredited through IATAN, I belong to ASTA, and I work within the Travel Leaders Network. None of that is the point, though. What matters is that I’ve been in this industry long enough to know it from the inside, and I built ABTC to do right by every client.
Living Life Well Traveled
For me, travel has never been about collecting stamps in a passport. It’s about culture: sharing a meal with people I’ve only just met, learning the rhythm of a place by living inside it for a while, and letting somewhere unfamiliar change the way I see home.
That curiosity has carried me a long way: a first-light game drive in Africa, a slow afternoon in the Caribbean, the coast of Ireland, the temples of Egypt, an island morning in Hawaii. Each place leaves its mark, and each one teaches me something I carry into the journeys I plan for others.
I plan from places I’ve walked myself, because the best recommendations come from experience, not a brochure. A life well traveled, to me, is simply a life lived wide open: curious, present, and always ready for the next horizon.
South Africa
Curaçao
Hawaii
Ireland
Egypt
MexicoA Passion for the Wild
Africa is where my group journeys mean the most. Safari is where my love of travel began, and it remains the heart of ABTC: we’re African safari specialists first and foremost. A first-light game drive shared with a small group is a different thing entirely, and our safari mini-site is the clearest example, a priced African journey you can explore and reserve.
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Giving back is just as important to us as exploring the world. Learn more about ABTC’s commitment to serving the communities we visit.
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Some of my favorite journeys are the ones I take alongside my travelers. On an escorted trip I’m there with you from the first welcome to the final farewell, sharing the places I know best and holding every detail, so you’re free to simply be present.
The groups stay small and the pace unhurried, with room for the spontaneous detour and the long dinner. Traveling together also opens doors that are harder to reach alone: the reassurance of a familiar face, and access to the guides and lodges I’ve built relationships with over years of planning.
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