Intrepid develops trips to world’s most obscure destinations
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Intrepid Travel has developed a new range of expeditions that delve into some of the world’s most remote and obscure regions.
The adventure travel company tasked more than 1,000 of its staff with designing trips to off-the-beaten-track destinations, as part of a “product incubator” project.
This has resulted in the development of a new range of itineraries to Georgia, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea and the jungles of southern Mexico.
“Some of the dream itineraries submitted had us busily checking our maps and [travel] warnings,” admitted James Thornton, managing director of Intrepid. “The ideas are a wonderful reminder of the passion for travel that we share with our customers.
“While the trips are all new, the Expedition-style of travel marks a return for us to the early days of adventure travel. When Intrepid started 26 years ago there were times that we didn’t know exactly what we were doing each day, and that was part of the attraction for the travellers who joined us. Expeditions are back by popular demand.”
The Papua New Guinea expedition, which is timed to coincide with the Rabaul Mask Festival, promises to “throw the traveller into the guts of rural PNG”, while the Georgian journey visits the isolated and mountainous Svaneti region.
The Kosovo expedition also includes Albania and Macedonia, and the Mexican itinerary, entitled ‘Exploring the Mayan World’, offers a “true Indiana Jones-style expedition” into the jungle.
All four trips in the Expedition range will have limited departures in 2015.
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