Audley Travel Tailor Made Holidays
It was while travelling around Indochina, India, and Australasia in 1991, following his graduation from the London School of Economics, that Craig Burkinshaw, Audley’s Managing Director, had the idea for a way of sharing his passion for the places he had been. Vietnam was then a little-visited destination with much potential but little infrastructure, a place that seemed off-putting to many people who would love to see the country if there were some way of visiting without pulling on a backpack and going it alone.
For the next couple of years Craig led his own small guided group tours around Vietnam - getting to know both the region and the business - and he is still in touch with many of the people from his very first tour. In 1996 he joined forces with fellow LSE-graduate John Brewer to found ‘Asian Journeys’, a company specialising in tailormade travel to Southeast Asia (including group tours with Terry Sullivan, who continues to lead tours for Audley). The company’s first brochure was produced in September of 1996, featuring photographs by Bill Hobdell. That was also the year the company took on its first employee, and in 1998 Nick Coates joined Asian Journeys as well.
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