Hostelworld and G Adventures has introduced Roamies, an experience that combines the social hostelling experience with small group adventure travel.
Targeted to 18-35 year-olds, this new collaboration launches with a collection of 38 tours in 15 countries and more than 50 hostels.
Tours start to depart on May 08, 2022 and all are available to book from December 08, 2021, with between 16 and 24 travellers sharing experiences on each departure.
The Roamies collection is the start of a longer-term partnership that will see more tours being added across further locations.
The companies said in a statement: Roamies captures the free-spirited nature of adventure travel and combines it with the inherently social side of hostels while bringing travellers together to explore the world on tours.
Tours range between five and 34 days duration, with maximum freedom and flexibility and optional activities available to book.
G Adventures’ Founder, Bruce Poon Tip, says that the partnership was born out of the desire to create something entirely new for younger travellers, many of whom have been deprived of the opportunity to travel over the past 20 months.
“As we learned more about Hostelworld’s business, we realised there was an opportunity to create something special by bringing our brands together to create the perfect mix of backpacking and organised travel.
“Together we’re creating a new style of travel for our customers that will allow them to have a better travel experience and support our model of community tourism, which is based on investing in as many local and small businesses as possible.
There is no better representation of that than in the hostel market, of which many are family-run businesses,” says Poon Tip.
Gary Morrison, Chief Executive Officer of Hostelworld Group, said, “Our mission is to help hostellers meet other travellers they want to hang out with while travelling, so partnering with G Adventures to offer a combination of hostelling and adventure travel made absolute sense.
“We truly admire G Adventures’ ability to create tailored group tours that put meeting new people and supporting local communities as the focal point, something our customers are extremely passionate about.
“With so many young people missing out on trips of a lifetime in the last couple of years, Roamies will offer them an entirely new type of planned backpacking adventure in 2022,” says Morrison.
Roamies trips are priced from £149* for a three-day trip, and countries visited across the entire current collection include Albania, Austria, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Peru, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Roamies tours will be sold by both G Adventures and Hostelworld, as well as via travel agents. For more information or to book, please visit: http://gadventures.com/roamies
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