About Us at Ventura TRAVEL

Ventura Travel

Travel with a team that helps you explore the world with confidence and purpose

Travel With Heart, Explore With Purpose

You want trips that feel real and create a positive impact. Ventura Travel guides you with specialist brands that focus on authentic encounters and responsible choices.

Our teams design each journey with clarity and care, supported by tech that keeps planning simple, fast, and transparent.

Our Brands

Simple origins

In 2000, during university, Andre co-organized a trip for 15 students to Ecuador. The impact was immediate: travellers came back transformed. The idea quickly took root that this could be something more.

By September 2001, our first brand, Viventura, had taken shape. By May 2002, our very first small-group journey across Peru, Bolivia and Chile set off. There were no investors and no easy routes, just commitment, care, and itineraries drafted quite literally by hand.

Even before that maiden departure, we began supporting community projects in Peru under what would later become the V Social Foundation. From the outset, Ventura was built on a simple principle: responsibility first, business second.

Today, the Ventura family includes several specialist brands, each led by local experts who live and breathe their destinations.

Bringing Our Expertise to the UK

We’re now bringing Ventura’s approach to the UK, making it easier for British travellers to explore the world with the depth and warmth our teams are known for.

You’ll book directly with the people who design the trips, not a middleman. That means clearer communication, better value, and tours built with insight, care, and decades of on-the-ground experience.

Our UK team exists for one reason: to help you discover the world in a way that feels personal, effortless, and enriching.

See our world

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Travel Designed Around You and the World You Visit

At Ventura, we believe travel should feel human. Our philosophy is simple:

Small groups that open doors rather than overwhelm communities

Real connections with the people and places you’ve travelled so far to meet

Unique moments crafted by local knowledge, not trends

Deep cultural understanding so you return home with stories that stay with you

We guide you through every step, removing uncertainty, enriching each moment, making sure your journey feels meaningful from start to finish and leaving a positive impact on the communities we connect with as a result.

Travel That Gives Back

We firmly believe that travel should benefit everyone involved. That’s why we set up vSocial, our foundation dedicated to supporting community-based tourism around the world.

To date, with help from travellers just like you, we've raised over €1 million which we've invested in over 25 different initiatives around the world.

Every Ventura journey helps fund projects that empower local communities, creating lasting income, preserving traditions, and ensuring cultures thrive, not just survive.

Our commitment is clear: when you travel with Ventura, your journey has a positive impact long after you return home.

Our Travellers' Perspectives

We really appreciated the balance between tourist sites and stays with local hosts. Everything was great, especially the visits to the farms and the demonstrations of raw sugar and cocoa paste production, Tortuguero, Zapotal and Betty, the canoe trip to reach the Bribri community, and the glamping stay… An amazing and magical trip! And we always ate well! (Jeanne G. - March 2025)

A very beautiful tour that allows you to discover several facets of this vast country, with a varied programme combining culture, nature and archaeological sites. The extension to El Cuyo is magical, thanks to the authentic atmosphere of this small fishing village, far from the crowds and mass tourism. (Michel G. - March 2025)

Some of our Trips

Join a community of travellers who explore the world with curiosity, respect, and heart—guided by a team that believes travel can make life richer for everyone it touches.