Explore Worldwide launches 20 new tours for 2025, focusing on transformative travel with cultural, walking, and cycling adventures in emerging destinations.
TORONTO, ON – Leading B-Corp small group adventure specialist, Explore Worldwide, announces the debut of 20 new tours for 2025 that evoke mind, body and an adventurous spirit through transformative travel experiences. The new collection includes 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. New departures start as early as January 2025.
“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,” says Katy Rockett, regional director of North America for Explore Worldwide. “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.”
Explore’s breadth of tours total more than 350 across 100-plus countries. Stemming from the company’s core product in adventure travel, several new active experiences have been added including week-long walking tours through the rugged landscapes of Northern Ireland, a new destination for Explore, remote locales like the Faroe Islands, and emerging adventure destinations like South Korea. For the extreme adventurers out there, the newly launched no-flights, 22-day Everest Base Camp tour offers not only an epic trek with a lower carbon impact, but introduces travelers to one of the Explore Foundation supported projects, Lehara.
A sample of the new 2025 tours include:
- Cycling in France – Loire Valley: The Loire Valley is known to have some of the best cycling infrastructure in France. Travelers on this new eight-day tour will pedal 155 miles along scenic ‘Voies Vertes’ or dedicated low-traffic routes. The tour weaves through charming villages like Savonnières to grand Loire Valley chateaus of Chambord and Cheverny, making stops for wine tasting in Vouvray and Bourgeuil in between. Rates start from US $2,210 per person, with departures available from June through September. This trip includes e-bike options.
- Finnish Lapland Winter Adventure: This six-day experience starts in Inari, a remote village in the heart of Finnish Lapland where dark sky conditions are optimal for viewing the Northern Lights. Travelers will engage in cross-country skiing and husky sledding and learn about local Sami culture during a visit to a local reindeer herder. Rates start from US $2,680 per person, with departures available from January to March.
- Best of Ghana: Adventurers on this 15-day tour of Ghana will encounter wildlife on a safari in Mole National Park, home to elephants and antelopes, and overnight in an off-grid guesthouse on the fairtrade cocoa farmlands of the Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative. Tour highlights also include a visit to a forest community of subsistence farmers in the Ankasa wildlife reserve and optional batik making workshop with Global Mamas, an organization empowering local women through art. Rates start from US $4,700 per person, with departures available from March through December.
- Spiritual India – Foothills of the Himalaya: This 13-day tour takes travelers on a spiritual journey through India. Highlights include a Ganga Aarti ceremony lead by Brahmin priests in the holy city of Haridwar, a meditation or yoga session in Rishikesh, known by many as the “yoga capital of the world,” and more. Rates start from US $2,080 per person, with departures available from April to November.
- Hiking in Patagonia – Glaciers & Torres del Paine: This challenging 12-day trekking tour brings avid hikers through some of Patagonia’s most epic terrain. The tour covers glacier-lined routes and ice hikes on the Creston Glacier to overnights in remote refuges like the permit-regulated Los Huemules Private Reserve. Rates start from US $6,720 per person, with departures available in November and December.
Adding to the breadth of new offerings for 2025, Explore Worldwide recently 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.
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.
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