Safety and Security

The wellbeing of our participants is at the core of everything we do. In order to offer the safest experience possible we rely on:

• Our experienced country teams. We recruit, hire, and train talented individuals from the countries and communities we operate in. This guarantees that the people developing, organizing, and implementing our trips have firsthand knowledge of the locations where we travel.

• Proven partners. Our team prides itself on working with partners that make safety their top priority. We assure this through regular vigorous assessments of facilities, personnel and equipment. We maintain close relationships with vendors and hotels by visiting locations often and maintaining frequent communication. But these people aren’t just our partners, they are part of our extended family—we work and play alongside them and watch our families grow together. 

• Planning ahead. We work with travel medical, mental health and risk management consultant Cornerstone Safety Group to create comprehensive mitigation and evacuation plans for every trip and vendor, and regularly review and update our contacts and protocols. We stay in touch with local, and international authorities in order to constantly access the changing environment, and give risk a wide berth—we will change plans or itineraries if we foresee unnecessary risk. 

We want you to challenge yourself and your comfort zone, reassured that our team is looking out for you and your group, which is why we’re constantly working to improve our operations in an ever-changing world to provide the best experience for travelers.