Intrepid Travel Launches Experience-Led Destination Guidebooks

Intrepid Travel has unveiled a new series of experience-led destination guidebooks, Intrepid Guides.

The new collection of immersive travel books debuts on April 15 online and in major bookstores. At launch, there will be three in the series, focusing on Australia (pictured), Japan, and Iceland. Guides for Vietnam and Italy are in the works, with more destinations to be announced at a later date.

Taking a different approach from traditional guidebooks, the Intrepid Guides series is built around experiences rather than location details. The guides were written from local sources, drawing from the knowledge of Intrepid’s tour leaders who live locally.

With chapters such as “Nature,” “Festivals,” and “Slow Travel,” Intrepid’s guidebooks are a tool travelers can use to authentically experience a destination, creating a deeper and more conscious travel experience.

“Intrepid Guides are for the curious and the conscious — travelers who want to experience the world, not just check it off a list. With these guides, we’re helping readers make travel more personal, more powerful, and more responsible,” said Leigh Barnes, Intrepid’s president, the Americas.

Intrepid Guides follows the tour operator’s successful book launch of The Intrepid List, a hardcover collection of 100 travel stories from around the world.

“Whether a solo adventurer, slow traveler, foodie, or culture-seeker — this is the new travel essential,” added Barnes.