Canadian World Traveller Spring 2024 Issue

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Exodus Adventure Travels Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Year
Exodus Adventure Travels, the international,
award-winning leader in
adventure travel, is celebrating 50
years of epic adventures with special savings
on its guided group trips.
50 Years of Industry Leadership
Exodus Adventure Travels was started in 1974
with a heart-warming story of two friends,
John Gillies and David Burlinson, who took
an overland truck to the Minaret of Jam in
Afghanistan, deep in the heart of the Hindu
Kush. Soon after they expanded their efforts
to other adventurous trips to Kathmandu in
Nepal and other destinations.
These two passionate travellers were able to
turn their sense of adventure and discovery
into a career, and Exodus was born. By the
1990s, along with being the first travel company
to take an overland truck into China,
Exodus expanded its product offering, adding
cycling adventures to its portfolio.
In the 2000s, Exodus’ trips reached almost
every corner of the globe. Throughout various
mergers and acquisitions, Exodus remained
true to its brand of providing extraordinary
experiences supported by knowledgeable
local guides and travel professionals. In
2021, Exodus became part of Travelopia,
which today is the world’s largest collection of
experiential travel brands.
Looking to the Future: Commitment to People,
Places, and The Planet
Exodus Adventure Travels understands that
the future of travel is based on the well-being
of people, places, and the planet. As leaders
in the adventure travel industry, Exodus’ goal
is to improve life through travel in the places
that it visits, the people it meets, and on the
planet that its travelers explore.
The organization’s trips help customers to
experience the real joy of a country by travelling
in small groups, off the beaten track, to
avoid and reduce some of tourism’s most
serious impacts on nature. It gives back to
communities by staying in locally owned
accommodation and employing local guides,
avoids waste generation, and has a stringent
animal welfare policy. Exodus Adventure
Travels measures the carbon footprint of all its
trips and contributes towards nature regeneration
through a commitment to rewild 100
square metres per passenger.
Through its foundation, Exodus Adventure
Travels aims to improve lives through travel
by investing in the regeneration and conservation
of the natural world. The Exodus
Travels Foundation focuses on three main
themes of grassroots community building,
uplifting women, and wildlife, biodiversity &
regeneration.
www.exodustravels.com
World Traveler Spring 2024