Intrepid Travel

Intrepid Travel runs small group adventure tours in more than 100 countries, based in Melbourne, Australia. It operates 1,057 escorted tours worldwide, each with about 10 travellers on average. It also offers tailor-made trips built for individual travelers and groups. Beyond tours, the company owns several boutique hotels and runs Intrepid DMC, a destination management company.

Darrell Wade and Geoff Manchester, two Australian university friends, founded Intrepid Travel in 1989. The company now employs 1,465 staff, or 3,399 when including tour leaders, and runs more than 30 offices worldwide. Annual revenue reached A$626 million. Starting as a small group tour operator and growing into a company that owns its own hotels shows how far Intrepid has scaled beyond just booking trips.

Currently, there's a total of 17 job openings at Intrepid Travel. Over the last 30 days, 25 jobs were added and 8 were removed (job postings usually stay up ~5 days before being removed).¹