Tour operator partners
The PAN Parks Foundation works with international tour operators who organise trips to Europe’s wilderness destinations, certified PAN Parks. These tour operators offer nature based tours, provide trips to small size groups, committed to sustainable tourism and operate in a sustainable way.
By visiting the PAN Parks destinations with our tour operator partners you are financially supporting Europe’s wilderness, as all trips include a contribution dedicated to our Foundation.
We are continuously expanding the range of tours to the PAN Parks to help you to discover the best of Europe’s wilderness.
Click on the tour operator names to read more about them:
Sawadee
For 27 years Sawadee has been specialising in active and adventurous group journeys. It all started in 1983 with a few tours to Thailand. Sawadee means ‘welcome’ in Thai. Sawadee is part of the Activity Sector of TUI Travel PLC.
Our travel programme contains more than 100 unique tours to destinations around Europe, the Middle-East and North-Africa, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Central- and South-America, North-America, and the Arctic’s. The tours last from 8 days up to 33 days, and are always offered in the best possible seasons.
We travel in small groups (no more than 18 travellers), we have competent (Dutch speaking and local English speaking) tour leaders and offer unique and balanced routes in which we go further than just the familiar highlights.
We travel with inspiration and respect for nature, environment and local communities with their habits. Not only do we want to contribute to a better environment, we also want to make sure that local people, guides and hotel owners benefit from our visits, so we can always return with a peaceful mind. This is what makes travelling great!
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SNP
Walking, hiking, cycling, roundtrips, active family holidays “all over the world”
SNP Nature Travel is a Dutch tour operator specialised in activity based tourism all over the world. In 25 years they have travelled the world and developed over 300 group trips and 700 FIT packages – including everything from walking, hiking, cycling, wildlife, bird watching, Arctic adventures, desert tours, cultural tours, to landscape photography courses.
SNP is a strong and innovative company. Their green and nature oriented image is focused on value for money, offering special destinations and activities such as walking (self guided GPS trails and locally guided trails), cycling, bird watching, wine & dine, snow walking, Nordic skiing, trekking and roundtrips.
They take special care in selecting small scale, preferably privately owned accommodation. Depending on the type of holiday (group/FIT) and type of activity, the accommodation varies from refugios, gites, mountain huts, and campsites, to chambres d’hôte, boutique hotels, tented lodges/safari camps, Himalayan trekker’s lodges, small beach hotels and other authentic accommodation which have well established reputation.
Tours organized by tour operator partner:
- Self-guided walking trip in Rila National Park, Bulgaria with SNP Natuurreizen
- Winter hiking trip in Rila National Park, Bulgaria with SNP Natuurreizen
- Winter trip in Oulanka National Park, Finland with SNP Natuurreizen
- Nature holiday in Majella National Park, Italy with SNP Naturreizen
- Outdoor activity holiday in Fulufjället National Park, Sweden with SNP Naturreizen
- Activity holiday with walking, cycling and canoeing in Fulufjället National Park, Sweden with SNP Naturreizen
- Walking tour in the Bulgarian mountains of Central Balkan and Rila with SNP Naturreizen
Wildlife & Wilderness
Wildlife & Wilderness is a specialist tour operator based in the UK offering wildlife safaris and wilderness experiences to a world-wide range of destinations including Africa, South America, Canada, Australia and India as well as Europe. The company was founded around 15 years ago by biologist, Dr. Steve Banner. The vast majority of our holidays are tailor-made specifically to your ideas and requirements. All itineraries are intelligently designed based on our professional expertise and a real enthusiasm for those countries in which we operate. This is best demonstrated by the excellent repeat custom we receive from our clients. The holiday experiences we offer are very special and you are guaranteed a unique holiday. Wildlife & Wilderness also organise some small group tours, often of special interest such as wildlife photography, to destinations as diverse as Svalbard and the Galapagos.
Currently, Wildlife & Wilderness is developing a programme of European walking and activity holidays each of which has a characteristic emphasis on wildlife or nature. This initiative fits perfectly with the sustainable tourism model we helped develop with PAN Parks and more details can be found on our website.
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Culterramar
Culterramar is a specialised German tour operator for walking, hiking, biking and study tours in South-Eastern Europe. As a member of the German organization for sustainable tourism “forum anders reisen” the company’s philosophy is to work in a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable way. Especially in Albania, Bulgaria or Montenegro there is still a huge resource of unspoiled wilderness which is necessary to be saved as a part of our heritage. Most of the tours of Culterramar are a combination of discovering nature and culture. On the hiking and trekking tours Culterramar chooses small, family-owned accommodation and local products. As a partner of PAN Parks Culterramar is proud to be part of a network which promotes Europe’s most unspoiled wilderness areas in a sustainable way. With the tours Culterramar tries to provide growing understanding and respect for these fragile ecosystems.
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