Meet Roamies — a new collection of tours for 18- to 35-year-old travelers announced today by operator G Adventures and Hostelworld, an Online Travel Agency focused on the hostel market.
The collaboration represents “the perfect mix of backpacking and organized travel,” said Bruce Poon Tip, founder of G Adventures.
“As we learned more about Hostelworld’s business, we realized there was an opportunity to create something special by bringing our brands together,” Poon Tip said. “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.”
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.
Thirty-eight tours will span 15 countries, with stays across more than 50 hostels across the world. Departures will begin May 8, 2022, and are available to book starting today. Rates for a three-day trip begin at $199 for stays in countries including Albania, Austria, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Peru, Thailand and Vietnam.
Gary Morrison, CEO of Hostelworld Group, views the partnership as a way to create a new type of backpacking experience for a younger demographic.
“Our mission is to help hostellers meet other travelers they want to hang out with while traveling, so partnering with G Adventures to offer a combination of hostelling and adventure travel made absolute sense,” he said. “When young people travel, they want to do more than just see places — they want to make meaningful connections and have new experiences that positively change their perspective on themselves and the world.”
“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,” he added. “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.”
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