| 7 Day Wonder Holidays |
Standup Comedy |
7 Day Wonder operate special interest residential holiday courses (painting, writing, art, music) in France and Spain, including a standup comedy week. |
| Arena Travel |
Elvis & Tractors |
Arena have been arranging tours to Memphis for Elvis fans since the seventies. They also take tours to agricultural shows and tractor conventions in the USA. If you want to travel thousands of miles to see a vintage Allis Chalmers or Massey Ferguson, this is your chance! |
| Art Safari |
Painting safari |
Painting holidays in various landscapes and settings in Malawi. |
| Aroma Tours |
Aromatic Adventures |
"Aromatic adventures" for small groups to Bali, Italy, France and Australia operated by an Australian couple with expertise between them as gastronome, sommelier, naturopath, and lifestyle consultant. There are aromatherapy courses & cookery classes and tours visit such places as spice markets, rose oil distilleries, and soap factories. |
| Country of Tourism |
Cosmonaut training, MIG flights, military adventures |
These are the guys who do all the extreme and special interest tours in Russia. |
| Cubawelcome Travel |
Cigar tours |
Expert-guided Cuban cigar tours visiting factories, shops, cigar auctions and tobacco plantations on Cuba, with 'cigar-tasting' meals. Not exactly ideal for non-smokers! |
| DJ Dispensary |
DJ'ing |
The DJ Dispensary is a collective of DJs & luxury travel experts. They run luxury retreats for aspiring DJs to develop their music mix skills. |
| Green Mountain Holidays |
Family hiking with donkeys |
GM offer actvity, walking & hiking holidays in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania - including 7, 9 & 15-day hiking trips with donkeys for families & groups. |
| Holiday Movie Company, The |
Film-making holidays |
Just wait for your mates to post their holiday video on Facebook...then you can post yours! The Holiday Movie Company offers unique film-making experience holidays in the UK and France, where you get the chance to make a movie in a lovely atmospheric location with professional actors and professional HD video or 16mm film equipment, coached by friendly and experienced film makers (ex BBC, etc). The holidays are aimed at beginners who get the chance to direct a part of a drama film or documentary plus become a part of a film crew. |
| John Baines Tours |
Dentist & medical history tours |
JBT are cultural tour specialists with a programme of small group study and lecture tours looking at subjects like medical history in China or dental techniques Vietnam or occupational therapy in India. |
| Olive Cooperative |
Palestine tours |
These guys take tourism, trade and educational groups to Israel and Palestine. These are dangerous places to go but the aim of the group is to promote reconcilation & understanding in the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. |
| Outlaw Trails |
Cowboy trail riding |
Small group horse riding holidays, pack-trips, long rides and expeditions deep into wilderness regions of the United States, Mexico or South American continent, often following the trail of famous cowboys and outlaws. |
| Skylark Holidays |
Fabric skills |
A range of specialist interest breaks/courses in fabric skills - eg. Quilting, Knitters Loom, Spinning, Japanese Braid, Eco Dyeing, Felt Making and Microwave Dyeing - at a farm in South Derbyshire. |
| Speed-Dater Events |
speed-dating |
In addition to their speed-dating events (work your way through twenty potential partners in 60 minutes), Speed Dater also runs occasional speed-dating city breaks and ski weekends abroad. |
| SwimTrek |
Sea Swimming |
Swimming adventure holidays. Swim the Hellespont between Europe & Asia and then swim off the beaches at Gallipoli. Or swim between Greek islands. Or swim with seals in the Hebrides. Take your pick, the oceans are your playground! |
| Textile Holiday Tours |
Textiles |
Tours for those with a special interest in textiles, both historic and contemporary, visiting stately homes, churches, cathedrals, castles, cottages and studios across the UK. |
| Ural Expeditions & Tours |
Mineralogical Tours |
UET operate a wide range of tours and experiences in the Urals, including 'mineralogical tours' with visits to gold, nickel, emerald, rhodonite, jasper and copper mines & quarries, jewellery and 'lapidary arts' museums, plus trails and site visits to the locations of a load of obscure minerals ending in "-ite"! |
| Village Ways |
Village stays |
Guided walking holidays in India & Ethiopia, hosted by local village communities. |
| Vocation Vacations |
Job Experiences |
Oregan-based company offering people the chance to take lifestyle-changing holidays by trying a new vocation. For a few days you can be a sports announcer in Tennessee, a boot-maker in Oklahoma, or an architect in Boston. Trouble is.... you don't get a paycheque, you have to pay them! |
| Walk Spain |
Stonework & Ceramics |
Sculpture, Mosaic and Raku* holiday courses & workshops in Andalucia, Spain. This Anglo-Dutch family run business specialises in guided and self-guided walks, hence the name, but also offers specialist craft courses. (* Raku is an ancient Japanese oven firing technique) |
| WaveRiders |
Kite surfing |
Kite surfing holidays in the Mediterranean and worldwide including Egypt's Red Sea coast, Cyprus, and Margarita island, Venezuela. Waveriders is a trading name of Ski Safari. The original Waveriders company closed in Dec 2008 and was taken over by Ski Safari, who now operate the kitesurfing holiday programme. |
| Wildwings |
Deep ocean submersibles & space tours |
Wildwings are the tour operator equivalent of Superman! For the most part they are a Bristol-based tour operator specialising in wildlife holidays, especially bird-watching. They are well recognised among 'twitchers' for the range of trips they operate all over the world to see bird migrations and exotic species. That's the 'mild-mannered Clarke Kent' side of the business. Flip a page in their brochure and you'll come across the stuff wearing the underpants outside their tights! They are the UK agent for Deep Ocean Expeditions who run trips to the wreck of the Bismark, the Titanic and the HMS Breadalbane under the arctic. They also offer space tourism. |
