Online tools forthe people behindthe journey.

Video editing, websites and AI automation for travel creators, hotels, tour providers and restaurants. Built around what your business needs.

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A traveller with a camera looks out over a clear island lagoon from a wooden jetty.

Three ways in.
One person behind all of them.

The same person edits the film, builds the site and sets up the automation behind it.

01 · Video editing
Get seen.
Your footage, edited into travel films and Shorts the way I edit my own channel.
Video editing
02 · Websites and tools
Get booked.
Websites, booking flows and the custom tools behind them, built around how your business runs.
Websites and tools
03 · AI automation
Scale with ease.
Emails, confirmations and updates, drafted by AI for you to approve. Set up once, they run the same however busy you get.
AI automation

01 · Video editing

Make them want to be there.

My partner and I travel the world and film as we go: ships, islands, small hotels, long days. I edit every video we make. Now I do the same for travel businesses.

For your business that means a film of the stay, the tour or the evening, cut to the length people actually watch, with Shorts cut from the same footage. Send me the footage and I will do the rest.

See video editing Watch the channel

Long-formFrom Ancient Ruins to Dinner on the EdgeAloft and Away · Celebrity Xcel

Short

SantoriniAloft and Away · Short

From the Aloft and Away timeline

Picture

B-roll

Music

Captions

02 · Websites and tools

Websites and tools that
give visitors a next step.

Choose your business.
See what a useful online tool,
with AI built in, could do
for your visitors.

Turn interest
into a stay.

AI tools that once needed a development team, built into the way your hotel already works.

Take the booking.

Dates, room details and a clear total, taken on your own site. An assistant helps guests choose the right room before they commit.

The Garden HouseAI-assisted

Check in18 Oct

Check out20 Oct

Garden room

2 guests · 2 nights · Breakfast included

Total for your stay£360

Choose your room

Illustrative example. Review cancellation terms before booking.

Answer before they ask again.

Arrival questions answered from your property guide at any hour, with a hand-off to reception when a person is needed.

Before you arriveAnswers by AIIllustrative example

Can we leave our bags before check-in?

Of course. Drop them at reception from 8am. Your room will be ready at 3pm.

From the property's arrival guide

Ask reception

Also for hotels

Get them booked.
Get them there.

AI tools that once needed a development team, built into the way your tours already run.

Make every departure bookable.

Times, capacity and a clear price. Help guests choose the right way to join you.

Old town walk

2 hours · English · 2 adults

09:30Full

11:304 spaces

14:008 spaces

2 adults × £35£70

Continue with 11:30

Illustrative example. Times and prices will be yours.

Make the meeting point obvious.

A useful route and the details they need before the tour begins.

Clocktower steps. Arrive 15 minutes early.
Bring water and comfortable shoes.

Open directions

Also for tours

From the menu
to your table.

AI tools that once needed a development team, built into the way your restaurant already works.

A menu they can actually use.

Readable dishes, prices and dietary details. Easy to browse, easy to keep current.

Find a table while dinner is still the plan.

Show a useful time, then a clear route to reserve it.

Also for restaurants

Good stories.
Worth finding
again.

AI tools that once needed a development team, built into the way you already publish.

Put your recommendations on the map.

Let readers find the places you love by destination and category.

5 places shown

Restaurant
Café
Museum
Beach
Church

Give every destination a home.

Bring your places, stories and films together. Your work stays useful after the feed moves on.

See Aloft and Away in action

Santorini's blue-domed churches over the caldera. — Your Santorini collection
Illustrative example
PlacesLotza · Three Bells of Fira
ReadSantorini, the DIY way
WatchRoyal Beach Club Santorini

Also for creators

03 · AI automation

Built once.
Ready for peak season.

When I publish a video, one click on my site turns it into a draft post: title, description and thumbnail, ready for me to check. One video or a hundred, it is the same click. Most travel businesses have a few jobs like it, and they are the ones that pile up when it gets busy.

AI drafts. You decide.

Nothing goes to a guest or onto your site until a person has looked at it.

See AI automation

Thumbnail of the Aloft and Away video “Is Boracay Worth it?”

The same shape, for you

Hotel: Booking email → drafted reply with the right room and dates.
Tours: New booking → meeting point and what to bring, sent the day before.
Restaurant: Menu change → updated on the site and the booking page.

What I can show you, and what I can't.

This studio is new. There are no client case studies yet and I am not going to invent any. Here is what does exist.

Aloft and Away.
All three, on one project.

A travel site and YouTube channel I have run since 2022.

Video: I film and edit the channel.
Website: The site, its design system, and the custom CMS behind its vlogs, series, destinations, places and stays.
Automation: New uploads become draft posts. Page copy is drafted in one pass and checked before it is saved. Route maps draw themselves from each series itinerary.

Visit aloftandaway.com

The Aloft and Away home page, introducing its Celebrity Xcel Med cruise series over a view of Santorini, above its latest YouTube films.

This website.

Built on the same stack I would build yours on. No page builder, no plugin sprawl. If a studio's own site is slow, ask what that tells you.

Twenty years of shipping software.

I started out writing code at Microsoft, spent two decades running delivery for Paramount and others, and I work in travel technology now. Most recently I designed and built a production platform end to end with AI coding agents, in daily use, with real users who complain when it breaks. That's the same way I'd build yours.

Start with an audit.From£750

Before either of us commits to anything bigger, start with one fixed piece of work, shaped around what you need:

It can cover

Your website.
Where it loses people, how it performs, and what to build first.
Your weekly work.
Which jobs could be drafted for you, and how they would run.
Your video.
A first edit of your footage, so you can see the work before planning more.

You get a recorded walkthrough and a call. If you go ahead, the fee comes off the work.

Book the audit

Ben Clissen standing ankle-deep in the sea at the edge of a beach, looking out under a cloudy evening sky.

You will be dealing with me.

No account manager, no team you never meet. I edit the video, write the code, set up the automation, and answer the phone when something breaks.

That is a limit as much as a feature. I take a handful of projects a year, which is why the audit exists: it is how we both find out whether this is one of them.

Based in London. Usually elsewhere.

Tell me what your visitors can't do yet.

An hour, no pitch deck. Tell me what's missing, and I'll tell you whether I can help. If I'm not the right person, I'll say so on the call.

Book a call

Not ready to talk? Send a message.

Online tools forthe people behindthe journey.

Three ways in.One person behind all of them.

Get seen.

Get booked.

Scale with ease.

Make them want to be there.

Websites and tools thatgive visitors a next step.

Turn interestinto a stay.

Take the booking.

Garden room

Answer before they ask again.

Get them booked.Get them there.

Make every departure bookable.

Old town walk

Make the meeting point obvious.

From the menuto your table.

A menu they can actually use.

Charred courgette

Brown butter scallops

Roast chicken

Miso aubergine

Bitter chocolate tart

Peach pavlova

Find a table while dinner is still the plan.

A table for two.

Good stories.Worth findingagain.