Tours of a Lifetime
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.
