I've generally found planning a trip very laboursome, and I think it's something that I could improve on. Main thing I'd like to improve is discovering activit

I've generally found planning a trip very laboursome, and I think it's something that I could improve on. Main thing I'd like to improve is discovering activities or attractions in a destination area; I've seen people use travel guide books, like Rough Guides or Lonely Planet: might explore that; also, heard of for-hire travel planners (Rough Guides seems to have a service, for example), which would be awesome, if the planning was actually high quality and well tailored (anyone has experience with that?). A tip I have is that kiwi.com has better search functionality than skyscanner, and their support is great. I use their search functionality with very loosely defined parameters (e.g. from [country] to [country or region or continent] any time), and gradually hone in on the parameters I'm interested in. And their support was a breath of fresh air when my flight was cancelled with a notice of ~1 hour and I needed an alternative itinerary: they put me to the front of the queue in their call center, and gave me plenty of options and helped tailor a custom itenerary based on my specific circumstances, all that for ~1-5 euros commission when first buying the ticket.