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Cheshta Agarwal, founder and host of The Trip Keeper, smiling on a green country road
Hosted by Cheshta

Founder-Hosted Group Tour

the trips where Cheshta travels with you

Our own exclusive group trips. Cheshta is on the trip, from the first flight to the last dinner.

  • Cheshta travels with the group
  • One clear price, inclusions listed
  • Meet your travel family
Next up: Vietnam, 17 DecView →
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A fixed-departure batch on tour

fixed dates, fixed flights

Join a batch of fellow travellers on set dates. Limited seats, flights included, with options. Our team doesn't travel on these.

  • Fixed dates and flights
  • Limited seats per batch
  • Flight options available
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A private family trip

Private Tour

your dates

just your family, nobody else

Trips planned around your family, your pace and your dates. Milestone birthdays and anniversaries.

  • Travel on your own dates
  • Route shaped around you
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careers at The Trip Keeper · Jodhpur & on the road

Help us take India's parents places.

We're a small team that plans slow, careful trips for people in their sixties and seventies — and then actually goes on them. If you'd rather count the stairs at a hotel than write a brochure about it, keep reading.

A travel planner's desk with a map of Rajasthan, a compass and two glasses of chai
A canvas backpack, a film camera and a mustard scarf on a railway platform bench at golden hour
A desert fort at sunset seen through a train window in Rajasthan
yes, that's the office

How a trip actually gets made.

this is the job, whichever role you join

01
plan

We plan around people, not places

Every route starts with a question: could a 72-year-old with a dodgy knee enjoy this? If not, it gets rewritten until they could.

02
test

We walk it before we sell it

Someone from the team goes first. Lifts, ramps, how far the loo is from the dinner table — it all goes in the file.

03
curate

We build in the nothing days

The best afternoon of a trip is often the unplanned one. We schedule time for it on purpose, and protect it from "one more sight".

04
host

Then we go with them

From the airport pickup to the last dinner. And a photo home every evening, so the kids stop worrying.

Hands of a small team planning a route on a map of India with pins, string and chai
let's come together

A small team where your work leaves the building.

There's no layer of managers between you and the traveller. The itinerary you fix on Tuesday is the one someone's mother walks through in March. That's a lot of responsibility, and it's also the best part of the job.

We're a small team, so you learn the business by doing the work, sitting with the people who plan the trips - not from a handbook.

No layersYou see the resultFewer meetings, more chai

What you get, plainly.

no ping-pong table, we promise

Take your parents

After a year, one trip a year for your own parents at cost. It felt silly not to.

Real time off

Comp-off for every day spent hosting on a weekend or holiday. No guilt attached.

Learn the whole thing

Planning, ops, pricing, content, hosting. In a team this size you'll touch all of it.

Jodhpur, mostly

Our base is Jodhpur. Where a role happens is written plainly on its posting - no surprises later.

Paid to watch travel videos

Destination study is part of the workday. An hour of travel vlogs is real work here - officially.

What happens after you apply.

about two weeks, start to finish — and we reply to everyone

1
You apply

A short form, right here on the page. Attach your CV if you have one.

day 1
2
We read it properly

A person reads every one. You'll hear back either way.

within 3 days
3
Chat with a founder

Thirty minutes with a founder. More conversation than interview.

week 1
4
A paid trial day

One real task, paid, so you see the work and we see you. Then an offer.

week 2

Questions people ask us.

before they hit apply

don't see your role?

Tell us what you'd do here anyway.

If you're good at something we need and you care about the people we travel with, write in anyway. A person reads every application, including the general ones.

Send a general application →
← Careers ☏
careers at The Trip Keeper · Jodhpur & on the road
Help us take India's parents places.

We're a small team that plans slow, careful trips for people in their sixties and seventies — and then actually goes on them. If you'd rather count the stairs at a hotel than write a brochure about it, keep reading.

A travel planner's desk with a map of Rajasthan, a compass and two glasses of chai
A canvas backpack, a film camera and a mustard scarf on a railway platform bench at golden hour
A desert fort at sunset seen through a train window in Rajasthan
See 2 open roles →

How a trip actually gets made.

this is the job, whichever role you join

01 plan

We plan around people, not places

Every route starts with a question: could a 72-year-old with a dodgy knee enjoy this? If not, it gets rewritten until they could.

02 test

We walk it before we sell it

Someone from the team goes first. Lifts, ramps, how far the loo is from the dinner table — it all goes in the file.

03 curate

We build in the nothing days

The best afternoon of a trip is often the unplanned one. We schedule time for it on purpose, and protect it from "one more sight".

04 host

Then we go with them

From the airport pickup to the last dinner. And a photo home every evening, so the kids stop worrying.

Hands of a small team planning a route on a map of India with pins, string and chai
let's come together

A small team where your work leaves the building.

There's no layer of managers between you and the traveller. The itinerary you fix on Tuesday is the one someone's mother walks through in March. That's a lot of responsibility, and it's also the best part of the job.

We're a small team, so you learn the business by doing the work, sitting with the people who plan the trips - not from a handbook.

No layersYou see the resultFewer meetings, more chai

What you get, plainly.

no ping-pong table, we promise

Take your parents

After a year, one trip a year for your own parents at cost. It felt silly not to.

Real time off

Comp-off for every day spent hosting on a weekend or holiday. No guilt attached.

Learn the whole thing

Planning, ops, pricing, content, hosting. In a team this size you'll touch all of it.

Jodhpur, mostly

Our base is Jodhpur. Where a role happens is written plainly on its posting - no surprises later.

Paid to watch travel videos

Destination study is part of the workday. An hour of travel vlogs is real work here - officially.

What happens after you apply.

about two weeks, start to finish — and we reply to everyone

1
You apply · day 1

A short form, right here on the page. Attach your CV if you have one.

2
We read it properly · within 3 days

A person reads every one. You'll hear back either way.

3
Chat with a founder · week 1

Thirty minutes with a founder. More conversation than interview.

4
A paid trial day · week 2

One real task, paid, so you see the work and we see you. Then an offer.

Questions people ask us.

before they hit apply

don't see your role?

Tell us what you'd do here anyway.

If you're good at something we need and you care about the people we travel with, write in anyway. A person reads every application, including the general ones.

Send a general application →