Explore Worldwide launches new small group tours

By Bob Mowat

October 17, 2024

Explore Worldwide has unveiled 20 new tours for 2025, with the new collection featuring a wide array of adventures ranging from walking and cycling trips to cultural immersions along less trodden paths, including 5 new-to-Explore destinations, all grounded in the company’s commitment to low-impact and community-focused travel.

Katy Rockett, regional director of North America for Explore Worldwide, explained: “We’re not alone in our love for adventure. Explore has seen a 22% increase year-over-year in North American travelers seeking out these type of travel experiences, and we expect to see that grow by 33% for 2025.”

And Rockett continued: “Our new tours aim to ignite one’s adventurous spirit, leaning deeper into active experiences that amplify trends we’re seeing from an interest in emerging destinations like [Albania] to solo travel and walking and hiking tours, which are up 35% over last year.”

New tours for 2025 include:

A sample of the new 2025 tours include: Cycling in France; Finnish Lapland Winter Adventure; Best of Ghana; Spiritual India; and Hiking in Patagonia.

Recently, Explore Worldwide debuted the Upgraded Series, an expansion of 18 tours that feature a new range of four-star accommodations, locally run where possible, alongside welcome dinner and stand-out activities.

Tours within the collection offer immersive experiences like local-led cooking classes in Northern Thailand to a star-gazing dinner in the Agafay desert in Morocco.

There are several new tour options for families are also included in collection offering a world of education for budding adventurers to destinations like the Balkans, Montenegro and Madeira.

For more, go to https://www.exploreworldwide.com/ .