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| Type | Tour Operator |
|---|---|
| Industry | Tourism |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Products | Adventure Travel Holidays |
| Website | worldexpeditions |
World Expeditions is an adventure travel and ecotourism company that offers trekking and adventure holidays. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The company was started in September 1975 as Australian Himalayan Expeditions to offer trekking holidays in the Himalayan. [6] [7] By 1990’s the company started offering adventure holidays on all continents. [8] [9] [10] In 2007, the company started UTracks as an active European holiday division to offer a range of self-guided walking and cycling trips in Europe. In 2011, the company announced a collaboration with New Zealand’s Adventure South NZ which it eventually acquired outright in .
In 2013, The World Expeditions Travel Group was created through a corporate restructuring of World Expeditions and became the parent company of World Expeditions and several other subsidiaries. [11] [12] [13]
In 2018 they were selected by National Geographic expeditions to operate the company’s Active Expeditions range of trips for the Australasian region. [14] In January 2019, World Expeditions joined the coalition for the ethical wildlife tourism [15] and in July 2019, the company signed World Animal Protection's elephant-friendly pledge and stopped promoting elephant rides to comply with the wildlife-friendly travel policies. [16] In June 2019, the company announced that it has removed the eagle hunting festival program from its Mongolian program. [17]
In September 2019, the company affiliated with WorldView project by gear company Kathmandu to render walks in New Zealand, Kilimanjaro and on the Larapinta Trail in Australia on Google Streetmap 3. [18] [19] [20]
On 14 October 2019, the company announced that it will offset the carbon emissions of all their holidays from November 2019. [21]
World Expeditions established World Expeditions Foundation in Australia to raise donations for education based projects in underprivileged communities across the globe. [30] [31] The company also established the Community Project Travel (CPT) program to assisting underprivileged communities. In 2013, World Expeditions set up a charity division, Huma Charity Challenge which raised funds across the globe. [32]
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