Awards & Accolades
Why we're different
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
- Ranked No. 1 by Travel + Leisure in the 2020 World’s Best Awards for Top Tour Operator
- Ranked in the Top Ten by Conde Nast in the 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards for Tour Operator
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
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
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