We will’t cease received’t cease on our mission to create constructive change by way of the enjoyment of journey, and our newest Built-in Annual Report dives into the element on how we did that in 2024.
This yr was crammed with record-breaking progress, necessary milestones and loads of constructive affect – you possibly can examine it allllll out in our newest annual report. Listed below are among the highlights.
Changing into a much bigger and higher B Corp
We joined the worldwide B Corp motion again in 2018 to assist us make good on our pledge to be the very best journey firm not simply on the earth, however for the world. We not too long ago recertified for the second time, upping our general rating from 92.2 to 102.5. This lands us among the many prime 30 massive B Corps globally.
Our new-and-improved B Corp rating displays our dedication to rising in an inclusive approach, the place goal and revenue go hand in hand. At a time when some firms are decreasing their give attention to variety, equality and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives, we’re digging our heels in.
Embracing the rail renaissance
Final yr, we launched a brand new vary of journeys devoted to rail journey, bringing collectively over 40 itineraries, together with three brand-new adventures – Specific to the Orient, Trans Mongolian Railway and Paris to Rome by Rail.
These accountable rail journeys permit travellers to decelerate and benefit from the experience. Additionally they contribute to our world decarbonisation plans, which embrace changing inside flights on our journeys with much less carbon-intensive choices the place it is sensible.
Supporting girls in additional methods
We champion girls’s equality throughout our enterprise and on our journeys – and in 2024, we discovered new methods to do this. Like when The Intrepid Basis partnered with ACCESS Growth Providers to help the launch of Holy Metropolis Rickshaws in Varanasi, India.
This initiative supplies girls from low-income households with coaching and employment as electrical rickshaw drivers. Intrepid travellers can hop on a rickshaw experience and join with these girls on a few of our India journeys.
Inspiring the subsequent technology of travellers
We debuted an expanded 18 to 35s journey vary geared in the direction of the subsequent technology of curious travellers. We launched 15 new journeys unique to this age vary, together with Important South Korea, Six Days in Iceland and One Week in Morocco.
Giving again in a much bigger approach
We’ve launched extra alternatives for travellers to attach with causes that matter within the locations we go to, by including Intrepid Basis associate experiences to extra of our journeys. This ranges from hanging out with the world’s first all-female anti-poaching ranger unit in South Africa, the Black Mambas, to serving to clear up the mountaineering trails of Nepal by gathering garbage with the assistance of Sagarmatha Subsequent.
These connections have long-lasting results. Final yr our travellers helped increase AUD 2.4 million for 54 Intrepid Basis companions in 39 nations, contributing to constructive change world wide.
To seek out out extra about how our prospects drove progress in native communities throughout the globe, try The Intrepid Basis’s 2024 Influence Report.
Digging into our provide chain
The time period ‘provide chain’ would possibly bore you to tears, however we actually care about ours. Our provide chain contains all of the practically 2000 suppliers and companies we work with to carry our journeys to life – each resort we keep in and each attraction we go to. In 2024, we accomplished a three-year deep dive into our provide chain and reported that 84 per cent of our suppliers are domestically owned companies and 27 per cent are owned by underrepresented teams like girls, racial minorities or Indigenous teams (up from 17 per cent in 2021).
We had the prospect to additional help one in every of these suppliers, the ladies of the Huilloc group that hosts our travellers in Peru’s Sacred Valley, by taking them to Machu Picchu for the primary time.
Portray the city Intrepid pink
You know the way nicely you possibly can spot your journey chief’s Intrepid pink shirt in a crowd? In September, we took that splash of color to metropolis streets world wide in our largest model marketing campaign but, Solely Intrepid, which showcases the particular experiences you possibly can solely discover with Intrepid. From the London Underground to Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis, Intrepid caught the eye of aspiring travellers across the globe. It’s all a part of our larger mission to develop into a globally iconic model and attain extra individuals with our accountable fashion of journey.
Trailblazing with new journeys
We like to encourage travellers to discover various experiences in undertouristed areas that may genuinely profit from low-impact, conscious tourism. In 2024, we grew to become one of many first world tour operators to guide treks in Pakistan’s Karakorum Mountains, working carefully with native operators to make sure the advantages keep throughout the group. We additionally launched our latest Ladies’s Expedition in Saudi Arabia, giving travellers a chance to discover this rising vacation spot by way of the eyes of the ladies who name it house.
We additionally unveiled our Not Sizzling Checklist to carry consideration to locations like these and to assist unfold the advantages of tourism extra extensively.
Learn the total Built-in Annual Report to study extra about our monetary, environmental and social efficiency in 2024 and the way we’re holding ourselves accountable to being higher.
