Travel operators

Travel operators

Embark on extraordinary journeys with our premier list of travel operators

From thrilling adventures to tranquil escapes, our curated selection ensures unforgettable experiences. Discover experts known for their excellence and commitment to turning your travel dreams into reality. Start planning your next adventure with the best in the business

Adventure Canada

Adventure Canada is a family-run travel operator that specializes in small-ship cruises to the worlds’ more remote coastlines. We engage, educate, and entertain by connecting people to each other and the land through travel. For more than thirty years, Adventure Canada has been a leader in “soft adventure” expedition cruises to some of the Earth’s great wild spaces. We take passengers who are deeply curious about the world we live in and take them to some of the most extraordinary locations on the planet—in our own inimitable fashion.

AHI Travel Europe

Founded in 1962 by the Small family, who still own and run the company, in 2012 the company celebrated its 50th anniversary.

AHI were the first travel company to develop tours exclusively for college and university alumni, their trips cater for educated individual travelers and their families, as well as members of alumni associations, professional groups and museums.

Last Frontiers

Last Frontiers have been helping clients plan Latin American trips for over 20 years, and know that nothing beats speaking to someone who has been there. All the staff have travelled widely and love to share their knowledge and enthusiasm.

As a company, they feel very strongly that tour operators need to work together with both their suppliers on the ground and their clients to ensure the long-term sustainability of what they do. The company have elaborated a Responsible Tourism Policy together with a Code of Ethics, given to all clients.

Heritage Group Travel

Heritage Group Travel is one of the UK’s specialist group tour operators, crafting imaginative, high-quality tours for member organisations and affinity groups. With over 20 years’ experience and with excellent contacts among owners and curators of top museums and galleries worldwide, Heritage is able to create a well-balanced itinerary of complementary visits for the discerning traveller.

Art Tours Ltd

Art Tours Ltd is the leading designer of bespoke art trips around Europe, Turkey and Russia. The company arranges private access to over 200 major museums and private collections across Europe, and specialises in sourcing inspirational lecturers. Clients range from art collectors and museum donors to family and friends coming together for the trip of a lifetime. Art Tours designs bespoke trips for a number of major museums and foundations in the UK and America. The London-based company was founded in 2008 by Oxford and Courtauld graduate James McDonaugh.

Historical Trips

Historical Trips offers over 30 expert-led tours exploring 1000 years of history all over the world – from the Knights Templar in France to the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

As with each tour on the Alumni Travel Programme, each trip is led by an extremely knowledgeable historian as a guide. They will share the cultural, social and political contexts, as well as the personal stories, behind each event - bringing the past to life before your eyes.

Martin Randall Travel

Founded in 1988, Martin Randall Travel operates 250 small group tours and events in Britain, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the Americas, China and India. Designed for people with enquiring minds and a desire to learn, their range of trips focusing on art, music, history, architecture, archaeology and gastronomy is unparalleled.

Andante Travels

 

Andante Travels is one of the UK’s leading specialists in cultural travel. Founded in 1984, Andante have taken thousands and thousands of travellers all over the world in the company of expert archaeologists, historians, writers and broadcasters. The company has won numerous accolades over the years, most recently being named Best Holiday Company for Customer Service at the prestigious British Travel Awards.

Voyages to Antiquity

In contrast to the massive vessels cruising to and from the major ports of the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia, Voyages to Antiquity have a mid-sized ship adapted for island and coastal cruising. This means that their ship Aegean Odyssey can visit smaller, less crowded harbours and sail closer the coast enabling you to really appreciate the magical views. 

ACE Cultural Tours

Founded in 1958, Cambridge-based ACE Cultural Tours (including ACE Study Tours and ACE Cultural Cruises) is one of the country's most experienced operator of cultural travel. Every year ACE pioneers over 200 escorted programmes, from one-day courses to extended study tours and cultural cruises, covering every aspect of the arts as well as architecture, archaeology, history and the natural world.

Hurtigruten

With more than 120 years of maritime experience and a fleet of 14 comfortable ships, Hurtigruten offers voyages that go beyond the realms of conventional cruises, providing specialist knowledge and expertise on journeys, and an opportunity to encounter environments, wildlife and local people.

The Hurtigruten ships have been an integral part of Norwegian coastal life for over a century. There are regular sailings which call into remote ports never visited by commercial liners, delivering freight and passengers to isolated communities lying amidst a backdrop of breathtaking fjords.

Temple World (incorporating IMA travel)

Temple World has pioneered the concept University Alumni travel in Britain. It all began with a single tour for the University of Cambridge in 1992. Since then IMA's success in providing stimulating tours for people of like mind has attracted groups from all over the world.

Many hundreds of Cambridge Alumni have travelled with IMA to nearly every part of the world and have enjoyed the very special atmosphere of their unique journeys. IMA is now part of Temple World, which has been arranging educational travel for more than a quarter of a century.

Golden Eagle Luxury Trains

Founded as GW Travel Ltd in 1989 by Tim Littler, Golden Eagle Luxury Trains is the world's leading operator of exclusive, long-distance rail tours, including the flagship Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express. Our 'Voyages of a Lifetime by Private Train' operate worldwide through Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia and China.