Scouting missions for a move abroad, or a life across several countries.
We design on-the-ground scouting missions to study one destination, compare several, or look at different ways of living abroad.
What we know from running business travel and study tours for companies, applied to your own plans abroad.
End-to-end support: understanding your plans, scoping what is at stake, bringing in the right specialists, designing the scouting trip, and following up afterwards.
The method comes from our corporate missions.
To study a new market, prepare to set up abroad or check that a plan holds up, companies use prospecting missions, inspection visits, study tours and learning expeditions.
The method is simple. Understand the project, bring in the right specialists, go and check on the ground, then turn what you learned into decisions and actions.
For one person moving abroad, or living across several countries, what is at stake is different. The method is the same.
Understand the project
Where are you now? What are you trying to build? What do you have to decide? We set out the objectives, the constraints and the points you will have to settle.
Bring in the right specialists
Residency, tax, law, banking, property, business: we identify the subjects that need a specialist and bring the right professionals in at the right time.
Build the scouting programme
We turn the project's questions into a concrete programme: countries, cities, appointments, visits, immersion, travel and logistics.
From the ground back to the project
The mission confirms some options, rules out others and turns up the points still to be settled. If you go ahead, we stay with the project and coordinate the next specialists and the next steps.
Since 2015, ND Travel has designed and run these international missions for companies. We apply the same method to individuals moving abroad, living across countries, or spreading their interests internationally.
What is a scouting mission for?
From a distance you collect information. On the ground you find out what is true for your own plans.
Test it in real life
Make the journeys, walk the neighbourhoods, use the services, and see whether daily life is what you are actually looking for.
Get the answers that matter
Put your questions directly to the qualified professionals and find out what is possible, on what terms and with what constraints.
Explore the options
Find a city, an area, an arrangement or an option that research from a distance never turned up, and compare them when there is more than one.
Come away knowing your way around
Know where to go, how things work and who to turn to when you come back to the country on your own.
See the whole picture
Check that what works on one front does not create a problem on another: daily life, residency, work, budget, family, or how you organise yourself across several countries.
Come back with more than an impression
By the end of the mission you know what holds up, what is blocking you and what is left to settle. If you go ahead, the next steps and the professionals to involve are already identified.
Meet people. Explore. Test daily life.
The programme is not a series of visits. Every appointment, every journey and every stretch of immersion answers a question the project has raised. What you find on site lets you go deeper on a point, adjust the mission, and check what could not be checked from home.
Meet people
Experts, entrepreneurs, residents and people active locally.
Explore
Neighbourhoods, housing, infrastructure, workplaces and new leads that turn up while you are there.
Test daily life
Journeys, distances, services, costs, the pace of life and local habits.
Two mission formats.
A scheduled departure runs a mission that is already designed around a shared objective. A private mission is designed around your own project.
Small-group missions
Objective, destinations and protocol are set in advance, with 8 to 10 participants. A one-to-one conversation before departure covers your own questions.
Private missions
The mission is built from your project: the questions to settle, the specialists to bring in, the countries to study, the places to see and how the travel is organised.
A mission built around your plans.
You set out your situation, your objectives and the countries you have already considered. We work out what has to be decided, bring in the specialists beforehand where that is needed, then design the whole field phase: appointments, visits, immersion, travel and logistics.
You leave with a mission built for your project, not a standard programme with a few appointments bolted on.
Design fee. The price depends on the scope and the complexity of the mission. Once the programme is approved, the client books the selected services directly with the suppliers, or asks ND Travel to book them.
Tell us about my private missionExperience built by running missions.
Business travel since 2015, first-hand experience of living abroad, and an international network brought in to suit each mission.
Corporate missions
Inspection visits, trade missions, study tours, learning expeditions and prospecting trips.
A network built to run things on the ground
In travel, and in business travel, a programme only works if you know who to rely on locally. Since 2015 we have been building and calling on partners we can trust to run our programmes.
Mission design
The project, the questions to settle, the specialists, the field work and the logistics are built as one programme.
A regulated French agency
ND Consulting SAS is registered with Atout France and holds a GROUPAMA financial guarantee and professional indemnity cover.
Personal advice on law, tax, wealth and immigration is given by the qualified professionals concerned. ND Travel arranges for them to take part in the mission.
Three things worth knowing.
Do I need to have chosen a country already?
No. A private mission can start from a country you have already picked, from several destinations to compare, or from objectives that we then use to work out which countries to study.
Why not organise the trip myself?
A trip you arrange yourself lets you discover a country. Our job is to work out what you need to study there, who you need to meet and where you need to go for your particular plans, then build the mission around those objectives.
What is your role on tax, law and immigration?
ND Travel prepares the subjects and arranges the meetings. Personal advice comes directly from the lawyers, tax advisers and other qualified professionals.
Take 20 minutes to talk through your plans abroad.
A confidential conversation to understand your situation, your objectives and the questions you are asking yourself.
We can also work with you earlier, as a consulting engagement: scoping your project, studying destinations, identifying the specialists you need and preparing the next steps, with or without a scouting trip.
The conversation sorts out which format is most useful: consulting, a scouting mission, or both.
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