HE Travel has been rafting the Grand Canyon for 40 years. In fact, the first gay tour ever offered was a Grand Canyon rafting trip that our founder Hanns Ebensten organized in 1973. We are currently the only gay tour operator running annual trips down the Canyon, and we run about 5 all-gay boats each […]
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Gay Travel in Barbados Tour?
In May I attended a familiarization (FAM) tour of Barbados, along with a dozen other winners of the 2012 “30 under 30 Top Travel Professionals” award from Travel Agent Magazine. The host’s goal for a FAM trip is to showcase their destination to travel pros that have the highest likelihood of selling their clients a […]
Mount Athos & Phil’s Millennial Momoment
2013 marks the 40th anniversary of HE Travel. As we’ve been reflecting what this means for us as a company, we’ve been looking back to other milestones in our company’s long history. While looking through our archives, we came across this “Millennial Moment” article written by our CEO Philip Sheldon as we approached the Millennium […]
Amazon Woman: Adventure in the Jungle of Peru (Part 3)
This is Part 3 in a series. Click to read Part 1 and Part 2. Day 4: Birding, Fishing, Hiking, and Daring each other to eat things we found in the Amazon Rainforest We met at 4am and went down to the dock for a birding expedition. The morning was misty and cool and the […]
Amazon Woman: Adventure in the Jungle of Peru (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Click HERE to read Part 1. Day 3: Entering the Rainforest This morning we gathered our belongings and set out for the port, where we had a bit of time to kill before our boat arrived. We saw more grilled and roasted meats for sale, and a […]
Amazon Woman: Creation of a New Adventure in the Jungle of Peru (Part 1)
by Sara Moses Back in April, my colleague Scott and I were sent to Peru to work on developing two new tours in the Amazon Rainforest. I was chosen for this expedition in order to create our new Amazon Woman tour for lesbians, and Scott was sent to get perspective on a new Amazon cruise […]