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Awards & Achievements

Through the years

2024

  • Ker & Downey designer, Trista Gage, was awarded as a Condé Nast Traveler 2024 Top Travel Specialists

2021

  • Ranked in the Top Ten by Conde Nast in the 2021 Readers’ Choice Awards for Tour Operator

2020

2017

  • Ker & Downey Vice President selected as a 2017 PURE Pursuits challenger

2016

  • Ranked No. 5 by Travel + Leisure in the 2016 World’s Best Awards for Top Safari Outfitter

2015

  • Voted No. 1 by Travel + Leisure in the 2015 World’s Best Awards for Top Safari Outfitter

2014

  • Named to the Short List for the PURE Life Experiences Award for Community Engagement Nets for Africa
  • Winner of the Seven Star Global Luxury Award for Best Luxury Tour Operator

2013

  • Five Consecutive Years on Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards
  • Ranked No. 4 by Travel + Leisure in the 2013 World’s Best Awards for Top Safari Outfitter

2012

  • National Geographic Traveler’s 50 Tours of a Lifetime – Path of the Polynesians
  • Ranked No. 4 by Travel + Leisure in the 2012 World’s Best Awards for Top Safari Outfitter
  • Travel + Leisure Magazine T+L Trip Pick – Primates of Africa

2011

  • Ranked No. 2 by Travel + Leisure in the 2011 World’s Best Awards for Luxury Tour Operator
  • National Geographic Traveler’s 50 Tours of a Lifetime – Uncovering Alexander’s Egypt: A Desert and Diving Expedition

2010

  • Ranked in the Top Ten by Travel + Leisure in the 2010 World’s Best Awards for Luxury Tour Operator

2009

  • Ranked No. 3 by Travel + Leisure in the 2009 World’s Best Awards for Luxury Tour Operator
  • National Geographic Adventure Magazine’s “Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth” – Luxury Category

2008

  • National Geographic Adventure Magazine’s “Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth” – Luxury Category
  • National Geographic Traveler’s 50 Tours of a Lifetime – Australia Dreamtime
  • Conde Nast’s online magazine Concierge.com “Best Adventure Tour” – Best of Peru
  • National Geographic Adventure Magazine’s “One of the Best Outfitters on Earth”

2007

  • National Geographic Traveler’s 50 Tours of a Lifetime – Splendors of the Cape
  • Luxury Link – “World’s Best Tour Companies”

2006

  • National Geographic Traveler’s 50 Tours of a Lifetime – Namibia Explorer
  • Outside Magazine’s “Trip of the Year” – Tribes of the Amazon

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