Luxury, small group, lesbian travel experiences to Peru, Croatia and Iceland offered in 2020 and beyond.
Out Adventures, the world’s leading provider of outdoorsy and luxurious small-group excursions for the LGBT community has launched a trio of tour offerings specially for lesbians. These are the first tours the company has offered specifically for women and were created to fill a gap in the market. The three tours will be Croatia (July, 2020), Peru (August, 2020), and Iceland (August, 2020). More destinations are to come in 2021.
“There are only a few companies creating tours specifically for lesbians and bisexual women,” said Iris Serbanescu, a travel industry veteran who will also be hosting the company’s Croatia trip. “But none of them have put as much effort as Out Adventures to craft a female-first experience, from the moment you look online and book your trip, to when your trip ends and you board your flight home. All the details are well-thought-out to ensure they resonate with this market.”
Before launching their lesbian tours, Out Adventures consulted with a lesbian travel researcher and lesbian travel experts to identify what exactly women travelers are looking for from a small-group experience. We want many of the traditional travel experiences – fabulous accommodation, iconic and transformational sightseeing such as visiting the Amazon and Machu Picchu – but with additional opportunities to support local women-owned and operated businesses, to have female guides, and to meet local lesbians when possible. With these insights in mind, Out Adventures developed itineraries with a female-first perspective, and all tours are hosted by a lesbian Out Adventures Brand Ambassador, and all local guides are women.
The Croatian trip will be a cruise along the Dalmatian coast on a small, luxury, female-owned and operated yacht. In Peru, participants will eat at a restaurant owned by a female, Michelin-starred chef, and meet the lesbian owners of a cupcake shop in Lima—as well as seeing the Amazon and Machu Picchu. In Iceland, local lesbians will host a house party to introduce attendees to Reykjavik’s women’s community during the Scandinavian summer.
“We’re so thrilled to finally offer these tours,” said Robert Sharp, founder of Out Adventures. “When we launched our company a decade ago, we had planned on having fully mixed groups of men and women, but we quickly learned that gay men generally prefer to travel with other gay men and lesbians with lesbians. We’ve been fortunate to have success and learn so much with our tours for gay men, but I felt very strongly that we needed to be more inclusive and offer trips specifically for women. I’m so thankful we built such a great team to develop these tours and can’t wait to welcome women to our first lesbian tours in 2020.”
For more information on Out Adventures' lesbian tours go here.