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Extra objective. Extra innovation. Extra unforgettable moments. Right here’s how Intrepid developed in 2025 – and what it means in your subsequent journey.
Intrepid’s newest Built-in Annual Report simply dropped. As a result of retaining issues actual and clear is one of many methods we maintain ourselves to account. There’s loads to digest, so we’ve dug by way of the main points to convey you 5 key methods we – and also you – are giving again, making a constructive affect and, finally, altering the way in which all of us see the world.
1. Evolving our strategy to local weather motion
Intrepid has by no means been afraid to level out the elephant within the room. Like when we took an industry-leading stance towards elephant using again in 2014. And whereas we’ve got an extended historical past of taking motion on the local weather disaster, by way of carbon offsetting and participation within the Science Based mostly Targets Initiative, it’s time to look one other elephant – let’s name him Jumbo – instantly within the eye.
We all know it; you understand it. The uncomfortable reality is that we create demand for air journey, which our travellers e-book to and from our journeys. We’ve by no means been required to report on the affect of those flights, however we consider they need to be thought of when we’re measuring the footprint of our adventures.
So, in 2025, we reset our local weather motion plan. We’ve stepped away from carbon offsetting and the Science Based mostly Targets initiative. As a substitute, we’ve adopted a brand new lifecycle emissions discount goal, which incorporates Intrepid traveller flights to and from their journeys, and will put money into a new AUD 2 million Local weather Influence Fund. This will enable us to give attention to investing in initiatives that actively minimize emissions from our provide chain – turning ambition into real-world motion. You’ll see this present up on our journeys, too – whether or not you’re zipping round Nepal in an electrical minivan or spending the evening at solar-powered Daintree Ecolodge because it transitions to 100% renewable vitality.
2. Giving greater than ever earlier than
Intrepid travellers are changemakers. Greater than 9700 of you selected to provide again to the locations you visited in 2025 by way of donations to The Intrepid Basis. The basis had a file yr, smashing its fundraising purpose of AUD 3 million by AUD 600,000, welcoming six new companions and disbursing AUD 3.4 million throughout 45 nations to 58 worthy causes.
From enhancing lifesaving healthcare in rural Colombia and empowering children in Thailand to take motion on local weather change to defending native birds in New Zealand and way more – collectively, we’re making actual progress in direction of defending nature, addressing inequality and empowering communities throughout the globe.
Learn the total Intrepid Basis Influence Report
3. Reaching extra Intrepid folks
As soon as you’ve skilled a small-group journey with Intrepid, it can really feel like you’ve discovered the key to unlocking journeys which are concurrently stress-free, soul-nourishing and infused with cross-cultural connections. For many years we’ve been taking these in-the-know all all over the world, on a mission to create constructive change by way of the enjoyment of journey.
But when we actually need to transfer the dial on that mission, we want to achieve much more Intrepid folks – those who’ve but to find our fashion of journey. To assist us do this, we painted the city Intrepid pink (once more) with our newest Solely Intrepid marketing campaign, lighting up billboards throughout London, Melbourne, Auckland and past, and hit screens worldwide with our first international TV advert – all within the identify of getting extra likeminded folks to strive our small-group journeys.
4. Strengthening ties with native communities
Our journeys are as a lot about who you meet as the place you go. Intrepid travellers need genuine interactions with the communities and cultures they’re experiencing – and we’re continuously on the lookout for new methods to make that occur in a method that’s helpful for everybody.
In 2025 we launched 50 new community-led experiences to our journeys, a lot of that are led by ladies and Indigenous peoples – suppose assembly a number mom at a household homestay in Phiring Village, South Africa, or listening to tales of the land from a Wiwa elder on a trek to the misplaced metropolis of Colombia.
Typically, the place we select not to function could be simply as necessary as the place we do. In components of northern Tanzania, the displacement of Indigenous Maasai communities from their ancestral lands within the identify of tourism and conservation has raised severe human rights and cultural heritage considerations. We consulted community-led organisations to raised perceive the potential affect of tourism there – and beneath their steerage, selected to not run journeys within the affected district. As a substitute, we’re enabling Intrepid travellers to interact respectfully with Maasai tradition, by way of domestically owned and community-run experiences in areas the place participation delivers direct profit to communities.
5. Increasing experiences in nature
Typically, you simply want to the touch grass. In 2025, we linked travellers with nature in new methods, launching virtually 100 new wildlife and nature-based experiences. Suppose climbing to glaciers in Greenland, croc-spotting on a pirogue (canoe) in Benin and planting grass for pygmy elephants in Borneo – fresh-air-filled, perspective-shifting stuff.
And when the US Nationwide Park Service confronted greater than USD 1 billion in cuts, putting 75% of America’s protected lands and greater than 1500 jobs in danger, we took a stand. We launched Lively-ism – a limited-edition sequence of journeys in US nationwide parks hosted by main US environmentalists similar to Leah Thomas and Pattie Gonia, with a give attention to equipping travellers with the know-how they should act in relation to local weather justice, civic engagement and sensible methods to guard public lands. It was such a success, we’re doing it once more in 2026.
Learn the total Intregrated Annual Report to be taught extra about Intrepid’s monetary, environmental and social efficiency in 2025.
