Collette launches 2025 season (and 107th year) with 13 new tours

Collette has launched its new travel season, adding 13 new tours to its global lineup, which marks the company's 107th year of touring.

"The new season brings new tours and new destinations into our lineup," said Collette’s CEO Jaclyn-Leibl-Cote in a statement. "We've added Albania to The Balkans: Coastal Croatia and Legendary Greece tour; and launched brand new programs like a Namibia and South Africa tour as well as regional deep dives like Sequoia and Kings Canyon and Utah's Mighty Five.

The 2025-26 season features more than 170 tours worldwide to destinations like Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, North America and South America.

It comes with an emphasis on travel during low-season months to ensure local economies that rely on tourism thrive year-round, while giving travellers the opportunity to experience destinations away from the bustle of peak tourist season.

To support local communities and partners, address overtourism, and offer a regionalized approach, Collette has also put a focus on creating programs that stay in popular secondary cities like Ise Shima, Japan; Cornwall, England; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Pienza, Italy.

Small group Explorations

Collette continues to add tours to its trending small group Explorations travel style and incorporate destinations "off the beaten path.”

Tours feature cultural connections and unique experiences such as a home hosted lunch in a Zimbabwean township, visiting a women's cooperative in India, visiting an Icelandic horse farm, and engaging with the indigenous Kootenai tribe members in Montana. 

Collette is also seeing new growth and expansion in multi-generational travel groups and private touring for 2025 and beyond

The tours are expertly planned and led by Collette's in-region destination team.

Tour Managers are typically locals who add their insights into the overall tour experience. From local culture to cuisine, they bring 'insider secrets' that can include dining in 'hidden gem' restaurants or even in locals' homes; traveling by dogsleds, trains, tuk tuks, trolleys, jeeps and public transportation; and staying everywhere from an igloo, treehouse, luxury tents, manor houses, castles or chateaux.

"I'm honoured to be leading our team as we usher in our 107th year of adventure. Travel continues to evolve as does the modern traveler," Leibl-Cote added.  "To stay relevant, we listen closely to our customers, partners and employees worldwide so that we can continually innovate and lead the way in this guided travel evolution."

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