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Every year, Travel + Leisure asks readers to vote on the top hotels, destinations, airlines, and tour operators around the globe. Known as the World’s Best Awards, travelers rated tour operators on their staff and guides, itineraries and destinations, activities, accommodations, food, and overall value. We are proud to announce that, with a score of 95.65, Trek Travel was named one of the World’s Best Tour Operators in 2018. We were thrilled to be awarded the same title back in 2016 and are proud to receive it again.

“Traveling with a comprehensive tour operator can bring any trip to the next level. These expert-led companies can curate itineraries based around your interests, unlock experiences that aren’t available to the general public, and perhaps most important, save you mental energy…The tour operators on our list offer experiences and itineraries of every type imaginable, but one increasingly popular category is active and adventure travel. Three of the Top 10 focus on cycling — a sign that our readers like staying fit and seeing the world on the open road.” said Hannah Walhout of Travel + Leisure.

Among our industry’s highest honors, this distinction means so much more because it was awarded by you. You are the reason we’re in business–your stories inspire us, your energy fuels us, and your expectations drive us to be the best. Thanks for all the fun you have, and the love you’ve shared with us over the years.

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A company president. Doctors and IT specialists. Pharmacists and marketing workers. For all of them, a challenging week riding a bike in the mountains of Tuscany was the perfect get-away vacation.

As we try to find the right balance between family, careers, health, socializing, activity and rest in our regular lives, some of us also want those same things on vacation. Since many of us have sedentary jobs, the vacation is an opportunity to detach and get up and move around.

I did not have to bring my own bike to Italy; Trek Travel provided them on site, with electronic shifting, the greatest invention ever, and new Garmins with a GPS and our daily ride routes already programmed. We had two guides with us at all times; one riding with us on the road, the other in a van on our route, supporting our ride with supplies, equipment, food and hydration. Drastik and Wouter Alaerts, our guides for the week, handled everything, adjusting bikes and brakes, recharging our lights and our Garmins, refilling our water bottles, helping with lunch choices, chilling beer in the cooler for the end of the ride. What a luxury. I felt like a princess.

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Making its debut in September 2018, Trek Travel’s Colombia Bike Tour will guide cycling enthusiasts on a journey that begins and ends in Medellin while traveling through lush green valleys.

Along the way, guests will take part in a local coffee experience in the villages of Circasia and Caicedonia, tour an avocado plantation, hike through the Cocora Valley, sample sugar cane juice after a ride through the sugar cane fields of Cartago, and more.
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Every year, Travel + Leisure asks readers to vote on the top hotels, destinations, airlines, and tour operators around the globe. Known as the World’s Best Awards, travelers rated tour operators on their staff and guides, itineraries and destinations, activities, accommodations, food, and overall value. We are thrilled to announce that, with a score of 96.97, Trek Travel was in the Top 10 as one of the World’s Best Tour Operators in 2016. Will you help us get to number one this year?

“At the Giro, you can even ride the same route the same day as the pros. (But starting well before or after them.) It’s like your softball team playing a game at Wrigley Field the morning before the Chicago Cubs hosted the Cleveland Indians in Game 3 of the 2016 World Series…”

“There were extras on Trek’s Giro trip this year: At the end of Stage 17, we were allowed to ride across the finish line, stand on the podium, watch the finish from a VIP area, meet some professional riders from the Trek/Segafredo team at a cocktail hour and tour the team bus.

While the 213 professional riders in the 100th Giro d’Italia would ride 2,242.6 miles in 21 stages over 24 days (racers get three rest days), the Trek Travel itinerary offers six rides totaling 306 miles (that include parts of stages 16, 17 and 18). You can ride as much of each route as you want. If you aren’t riding your bike, you can ride in the Trek support van or explore town.”

By Dina Mishev | November 22, 2017

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“The best part of the trip was the group energy. There were some die hard guys who were really into the Tour. They knew all the climbs and who had dropped out where, so it was interesting to hear from them. But it was especially fun, after a long day’s ride, to gather for food, drinks, and stories. You get a group of cyclists together with wine, beer, and food—lots of food—and you’ll always have a good time.”

Roger Tanaka as told to Sarah Purkrabek | June 28, 2017

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“Guided and supported cycling trips are among the best vacations you can take, at least in my experience. You get an immersive, slower paced, up-close look at whatever destination you choose, enjoying the scenery and back roads in a way you just cannot appreciate as much from a car window.”

Allison Olmsted | May 31, 2017

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