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Big travel ideas, tiny books: Intrepid Travel expands pocket-sized guide series

Be inspired by two new pocket-sized Intrepid Travel guidebooks, tapping into demand for experience-led travel inspiration with two per cent of all book sales donated to The Intrepid Foundation.

Be inspired by two new pocket-sized Intrepid Travel guidebooks, tapping into demand for experience-led travel inspiration with two per cent of all book sales donated to The Intrepid Foundation.

The Intrepid List: Outdoors and The Intrepid List: Culture are the latest mini additions to its growing guidebook range in partnership with Hardie Grant, which currently includes six titles spanning destinations globally.

Each book features 50 curated experiences drawn from the B Corp’s inaugural publicationThe Intrepid List, published in 2024, highlighting the company’s core focus on small-group, locally led adventures.

Family group walking across stones at the Fairy Pools on Scotland's Isle of Skye. Image: Intrepid Travel
Fairy Pools on Scotland’s Isle of Skye ticks the outdoors box in Intrepid Travel guidebooks.

Designed as compact, local experience-led travel companions, the new titles are a response to growing demand for more meaningful travel and a continued investment in brand-led content and storytelling.

The Intrepid Travel guidebooks inform the inspiration phase of the traveller journey, extending the brand reach beyond trips and encouraging deeper connection with destinations and communities.

Intrepid Travel group mushing coffee beans at Karatu Organic Coffee Farm in Tanzania. Image: Intrepid Travel
Get amongst uncommon experiences like mushing coffee beans at Karatu Organic Coffee Farm in Tanzania.

Intrepid Travel Global Brand Director Natalie Placko said: “We’re delighted to add these new pocket-sized books to our Intrepid Guide collection, inspiring curious travellers in search of new and uncommon experiences in destinations around the world.”

“Each compact guide is designed for the intrepid traveller. Someone who values authentic encounters, seeks out local perspectives and wants to go beyond the tourist trail.

Group of people walking the rocky hills of Kornati National Park in Dalmatia, Croatia. Image: Intrepid Travel
Be inspired to go beyond the tourist trail, such as walking the rocky hills of Kornati National Park in Croatia.

“With a curated selection of unique outdoor and cultural experiences, the new guides are compact enough to take anywhere, offering inspiration throughout your travels,” she said.

The Intrepid Foundation has so far raised more than AUD$10,000 for partners across the globe from sales of Intrepid Travel guidebooks.

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Cultural immersion in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Image: Molly Dan/Intrepid Travel