Peter Sommer Travels are eight-time winners of the Tour Operator of the Year Award and 2025 marks their 23rd anniversary.

In 1994, Peter Sommer walked 2,000 miles from Troy across Turkey, retracing the route of Alexander the Great and in the process fell deeply in love with travel. A British archaeologist and award-winning documentary filmmaker (his BBC credits include Tales from the Green Valley, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and Millennium: A history of the last thousand years), he started to create and lead historical tours in 1996 and set up Peter Sommer Travels in 2002. Peter, his wife Elin and their team continue to organise unique cultural and archaeological tours and gulet cruising holidays, escorted by the finest experts.

Since the creation of the UK’s prestigious Tour Operator of the Year Awards in 2015, they have won four Gold Awards for 2024, 2022, 2017 and 2015 and four Silver awards for 2023, 2019, 2018 and 2016. They have also won the Silver award for Best Tour Company for Arts and Culture Holidays in 2022. National Geographic have rated their tours One of the world’s Top Ten Learning Retreats.

Peter Sommer Travels are a trusted and longstanding member of ABTA, AITO and other travel industry bodies. A small family run company, they take pride in their personal approach, treating customers as guests with extra special care. You can read what guests say about their land-based tours and gulet cruises - they have received more than 800 completely independent reviews spanning more than 10 years - currently 795 Excellent and 6 Good ratings.

Sustainability and Responsible Travel

Peter Sommer Travels is committed to offering tours in a responsible fashion. The whole reasoning behind what they do is borne out of a genuine love and respect for the countries they visit.

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