Trailfinders
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Trailfinders is the UK's largest independent travel
company with 28 travel centres in the United Kingdom
and Ireland
. There did used to be offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The company specialises in tailormade travel worldwide.
Trailfinders was founded in 1970 by former SAS
officer Mike Gooley with a staff of four. The company remains privately owned but today has a staff of over 950 and has made travel arrangements for over 11 million clients.
Trailfinders was Voted Best Specialist Travel Organiser by readers of the The Daily Telegraph
in 2007 and has previously been awarded Best Specialist Independent Travel Company every year since the inception of The Telegraph travel awards. Also in 2007 they were awarded Best Tour Operator in The Guardian
, The Observer
and Guardian Unlimited
Travel Awards and have previously won the Best Travel Agent category on seven separate occasions. In a 2011 poll of the best holiday companies, Which? magazine readers decided upon Trailfinders and Kuoni as their joint favourite holiday tour operators.
Trailfinders is considered a very reliable company and has built up a good reputation in the UK and Ireland.
Mike Gooley also owns Bloomfield Lodge
, a boutique lodge set between the Daintree Rainforest
and Great Barrier Reef
in Far North Queensland
, Australia
, he is a fixture in the Sunday Times Rich List
.
Travel
Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. 'Travel' can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.-Etymology:...
company with 28 travel centres in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
. There did used to be offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The company specialises in tailormade travel worldwide.
Trailfinders was founded in 1970 by former SAS
SAS
- Special forces :* Special Air Service, a special forces unit of the British Army* Australian Special Air Service Regiment * New Zealand Special Air Service * Rhodesian Special Air Service...
officer Mike Gooley with a staff of four. The company remains privately owned but today has a staff of over 950 and has made travel arrangements for over 11 million clients.
Trailfinders was Voted Best Specialist Travel Organiser by readers of the The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
in 2007 and has previously been awarded Best Specialist Independent Travel Company every year since the inception of The Telegraph travel awards. Also in 2007 they were awarded Best Tour Operator in The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
and Guardian Unlimited
Guardian Unlimited
guardian.co.uk, formerly known as Guardian Unlimited, is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. Georgina Henry is the editor...
Travel Awards and have previously won the Best Travel Agent category on seven separate occasions. In a 2011 poll of the best holiday companies, Which? magazine readers decided upon Trailfinders and Kuoni as their joint favourite holiday tour operators.
Trailfinders is considered a very reliable company and has built up a good reputation in the UK and Ireland.
Mike Gooley also owns Bloomfield Lodge
Bloomfield Lodge
Bloomfield Lodge, formerly known as Peppers Bloomfield Lodge, is a boutique rainforest lodge set between the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is one of Australia’s most exclusive retreats and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World and Drake &...
, a boutique lodge set between the Daintree Rainforest
Daintree Rainforest
The Daintree Rainforest is a tropical rainforest on the north east coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman and Cairns. At around 1200 square kilometres the Daintree is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian continent...
and Great Barrier Reef
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world'slargest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately...
in Far North Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, he is a fixture in the Sunday Times Rich List
Sunday Times Rich List
The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families in the United Kingdom, updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989...
.