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With great travel planning power comes great responsibility, but not always a vote of thanks…

Despite taking on the arduous role of mapping out spreadsheets, pinpointing a date that suits everyone’s calendar and creating a detailed itinerary, travel planners rarely get any credit for their efforts.

Now, new research from booking platform Klook, which surveyed 2,725 travellers across 10 countries, has found that travel planning ranks among the least thanked tasks people do for others.

The survey also found that for eight in 10 respondents, travel planning can take upwards of over 10 hours to organise a single trip.

And even handing over the reins doesn’t necessarily mean switching off...