Our travelers aren't the only ones sending praise our way. Over the years we've been given awards and recognition by many trade publications and organizations. Read about our latest accolades below.
Outside Magazine: Best Places to Work
- Natural Habitat Adventures was ranked number one Best Place to Work for companies with 14-49 employees - 2008.
- National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) was named one of the best medium-sized companies (50-249 employees) to work for - 2008.
Travel + Leisure World's Best Award
Each year Travel + Leisure conducts a reader's poll to identify the World's Top Tour Operators, based on six key criteria: staff and guides, itineraries and destinations, activities, food, value, and accommodations.
Travel + Leisure Winner: World's Best Tour Operator and Safari Outfitter
Travel + Leisure: World's Best Value
Travel + Leisure's 40 Trips That Will Change Your World
- Natural Habitat Adventures 2008
Listed among Travel + Leisure's World's Best Tour Operator and Safari Outfitters
- Backroads 1998-2006
- Micato Safaris 1995-2006
- Lindblad Expeditions 2000-2006
- Geographic Expeditions 2006
National Geographic's Best New Trips
- Natural Habitat Adventures 2008
Conde Nast Top Travel Specialist
- Geographic Expeditions 2005
- Off the Beaten Path 2002-2006
Conde Nast Traveller Gold List
The Conde Nast Traveller Gold List, chosen by the magazine's readers, recognizes the world's best travel carriers and operators.
- Lindblad Expeditions 1998-2003
Conde Nast Traveller Readers' Choice for Top Cruise Lines
- Lindblad Expeditions 1996-2003
Conde Nast Traveller Ecotourism Award
This award recognizes a tour operator's commitment to preserving natural habitats and contributing to local cultures while providing enriching travel experiences.
- Lindblad Expeditions 2002
Conde Nast Traveller's World's Most Amazing Travel Specialists
Conde Nast's Wendy Perrin annually lists the industry's best travel specialists. Says Perrin, "With their blend of expertise, connections, customer service, and good value, these select travel consultants can pack a punch in crafting your next trip. The travel specialists who make the list, and remain on it year after year, do so by meeting or exceeding our expectations and those of our readers."
- Caroline Wood, Off the Beaten Path
Conde Nast Traveller's Green List
The Green List is an annual tribute to ecotourism, honoring the best hotels, tour operators, and destinations for their environmental initiatives, contributions to local communities, and the quality of their guest experience.
- Natural Habitat Adventures: Highest ranked tour operator and second highest overall in 2006
Outside Magazine's Best Trips
Influential Outside magazine annually lists the world's best trips, with an emphasis on journeys that connect travelers to the outdoors.
LuxuryLink: World's Best Tour Company
Porthole Magazine: Best African Safari Tour Operator
- Micato Safaris 2004, 2005, 2007
Banff Heritage Tourism Corporation's award for Strongest Commitment to Staff Heritage Orientation
British Columbia Tourism Industry Environmentally Responsible Tourism Award
Given to a tour operator that demonstrates comprehensive, effective environmental practices.
Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) Parks Canada Sustainable Tourism Award
The criteria for this award reflect the three pillars of sustainable tourism development: economic viability, environmental sustainability, and cultural appropriateness.
Travel Alberta Alto Award for Sustainable Tourism
This award recognizes the management of resources focused on maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity, and life support systems that meet the needs of present visitors and host communities while protecting and enhancing opportunity for the future. The Alto Awards were created by the tourism industry to recognize the outstanding efforts to cooperatively develop Alberta's tourism industry.
Tanzania Tourist Board Cruise Development Award
TravelAge West: Best Tour Operator, Africa/Middle East
Travel Agent Magazine: Tour Operator of the Year, Leaders in Luxury
- Dennis Pinto, Micato Safaris 2004
United Nations Environment Programme Global 500 Award
Awarded by the UN "to recognize and reward individuals and organizations around the world that have made an impact in protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development."
Carlson Marketing Worldwide: Partners in Excellence - Spirit of Excellence Program
Together Our Resources Can Help (TORCH): Inspiration Award
- Lorna Macleod, Micato Safaris 2005
National Audubon Society's Nature Odysseys Tour Operator Award for Excellence
Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. The tourism operator who receives their Award for Excellence not only takes their travelers to see these bird populations, but also informs them of the need to protect and respect these populations so that future travelers can also enjoy them.
ASTA/Smithsonian Magazine Environmental Award
The WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund), an organization at the vanguard of animal and habitat preservation around the world, has chosen Natural Habitat Adventures as one of just two of their travel providers, in recognition of Natural Habitat's commitment to education and respect for wildlife preservation.
