World Expeditions
Travel and holiday companies of Austria
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World Expeditions is an adventure travel and ecotourism company that offers trekking and adventure holidays.[1][2][3][4][5]
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| Company type | Tour Operator |
|---|---|
| Industry | Tourism |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Products | Adventure Travel Holidays |
| Website | worldexpeditions |
History
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]
Acquisitions
Sibling and charitable projects
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]