About
Why I built BonVoyageur, and the convictions that guide it.
Antton, founder of BonVoyageur
Who I am
My name is Antton. I've been lucky enough to travel across several parts of the world these past years. My first trip, Interrail across Europe, gave me a taste for slow travel and pushed me ever further, up to my first long journey: eight months discovering the riches of Asia. Each time, I ran into the same difficulty: juggling weather, visas and distances to build an itinerary that fit my low-carbon choices and my wish to take my time at every stop.
Like many, I ended up piling up browser tabs and spreadsheets to track my routes, note the monsoon seasons and estimate my budget. I'm a developer by trade, and the idea of tooling this headache quickly took hold: keep the pleasure of planning your own trip, while bringing the information that really matters into one place. That became BonVoyageur.
My convictions
Autonomy
The tool structures the timing. You create the experience.
Dispersion
100 travellers, 100 different itineraries, not 100 copies of the same loop.
Respect
Local communities are not a tourist resource.
Transparency
The algorithm is explainable. No black box: you understand every suggestion.
Impact
Leave every place better than you found it.
My philosophy
A starting point, not a prescription
BonVoyageur offers appealing alternatives; you decide. The generated plan is just a base you shape.
Anti-overtourism, not anti-tourism
Travelling better, longer and more freely, away from the crowding that ruins what it claims to celebrate.
Sequencing, not micro-planning
I handle the order, the timing and the visas. What you discover on the ground stays yours: no "must-see" lists, no day-by-day plan.
Your footprint is a yearly story
A long overland trip often weighs less than a few weekend flights. The tool compares, without guilt-tripping.