9 reasons why 2025 is the year to join a small group tour

Not had the opportunity to use up all of your annual leave, or been saving your holiday for an extra special trip? Now is the time to cash in those days and enjoy some well-deserved time off. Whether you blow it all on a lengthy two-week tour across Vietnam and Cambodia or take a couple of short breaks to Iceland’s Golden Circle or a discovery trip to Croatia, you’ll be spoilt for choice with our variety of small group adventures.

Make the most of the new and improved Explore loyalty club in 2025. To show our gratitude for your ongoing support, we’ve added many extra benefits, including special offers and partner discounts. Plus, you can now start saving faster, with partner discounts available after just one trip. And if you want to travel with a group of eight friends, we’ll give you the ninth place absolutely free! With all of these great offers available, there’s never been a better time to start travelling with us.

All of our tours come with a ten days no-fee flexibility so you can book your 2025 holiday with confidence. Explore is also a Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award winner so you can rest assured that we will always do the right thing should your trip be cancelled, you need to self-isolate, or you want to swap to another tour. And although we embrace the friendliness of a small travel business, we offer the financial security of being part of a large cooperative family.

Here at Explore, we care deeply about responsible tourism, so our trips are designed to positively affect the people and places we visit across the world. We're keen to emphasise the importance of travelling responsibly, and we are more committed than ever to our sustainability goals - we're proud to be a Certified B Corp. From eliminating single-use plastic across all of our trips and improving animal welfare to introducing more low-carbon travel options such as rail holidays and continuing our fair employment practices, we are working hard to reduce our impact.