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The Kimberley Experts
APT Kimberley Wilderness Adventures has been operating 4-wheel drive safari tours throughout the Kimberley for more than 15 years, and are recognised as the touring specialists in the region. The company's reputation for traveller satisfaction and quality operation has been recognised with several tourism awards. However, even greater reward comes from the satisfaction of our travellers, their on-going patronage, and personal recommendations to friends. It is our commitment to ensure that APT Kimberley Wilderness Adventures continues to exceed all your expectations.
The APT Group - Enhancing Life's Experiences
The APT Group stands for quality, value and excellence. The APT Group encompasses a number of companies, including Kimberley Wilderness Adventures, and leads the way with a greater choice of holidays.
As our customer, you are of the greatest importance to us, and we pride ourselves on our ever-increasing range of touring options that will enrich and enhance your life's experiences. Choose from low-cost to premium tours, 4-wheel drive adventures to luxury cruise, coach and rail travel -- whatever your holiday needs and budget, the APT Group has a unique and memorable touring experience to suit you.
Meet the APT Family Group, offering a diverse range of travel styles, each one committed to delivering the ultimate holiday experience.
Classic Touring and Cruising
APT (Australian Pacific Touring) is the APT Group's flagship company. Its holidays are designed for the premium end of the market and offer quality, first-class experiences. The company offer a great choice of touring styles including ocean and river cruising, coach travel, rail travel, 4WD adventures, air safaris and short breaks.
Travelmarvel offers unbeatable value, quality holidays with packaged tours throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, Eygpt, Canada and Alaska.
Specialist Touring
Botanica World Discoveries offers botanically themed river cruises and personalised small group garden tours designed for the gardening enthusiast.
Youth and Adventure Touring
Kimberley Wilderness Adventures discovers the isolated Kimberley region without 'doing it rough'. The 4-wheel drive adventures include wilderness camping in unique permanent safari camps.
Topdeck Tours has been taking young adventurous travellers from 18 to 30-something on a journey of a lifetime to Europe and beyond since 1973.
Exotic and Luxurious Experiences
The Captain's Choice Tour is the leader in luxury travel to remote and exotic destinations. Whether it be by privately chartered train or an all Business Class aircraft, a six-star cruise ship or another deluxe mode of transport, The Captain's Choice Tour access a seletion of astonishing cultures and surreal landscapes that most people can only ever dream of.
Croydon Travel is a retail travel agency and the only company in the world to offer sightseeing flights over Antarctica.
Responsible Tourism
The APT Group is focused on achieving best practice in economic, social and environmental responsibility.
In conducting our operations, we strive to minimise our impact on the environment, spread benefits throughout the local economies in Australia and internationally, as well as directly promote and support community wellbeing.
Our Indigenous Partnerships
APT's current and increasing touring activities in Kakadu and Western Arnhem Land are in partnership with Djabulukgu Association Inc. This Indigenous association represents the interests of Traditional Owners in Northern Kakadu and parts of Western Arnhem Land. APT's Kimberley Wilderness Adventures has been in partnership with Wunan for many years. This organisation represents the interests of East Kimberley Aboriginal people.
Through these partnerships, APT can offer unique experiences and exclusive products in special places in the Kimberley, Kakadu and Western Arnhem Land. Both the Djabulukgu Association Inc. and Wunan are committed to community development. Through joint ventures with APT, employment and training opportunities are made available, which provides socio-economic benefits for many Aboriginal communities. This creates a win/win situation for both the Australian tourism industry and local communities. Other significant benefits include partnerships to build sustainable business practices.
Community Support
APT, its staff and the McGeary family are dedicated to helping local communities and the less fortunate. Significant contributions have been made to the Red Cross, the Challenge Program for Kids with Cancer,
the Royal Children's Hospital, an orphanage in Cambodia, the Country Fire Authority, Breast Cancer charities, Canteen and others. Geoff McGeary was also named Bayside 2007 Citizen of the Year for his support of the local community. We understand the value of community and our people are proud to make a difference.
Climate Change
APT is acutely aware of the damaging effects of climate change on the environment. APT has its own modern fleet of transport vehicles that are designed to minimise emissions in the most practical way. Our offices, wilderness lodges and other infrastructure already adopt a range of practices to minimise emissions, including the use of solar power, reduced energy usage, recycling and other initiatives.
Advanced Ecotourism Certification / Accredited Tourism Business
APT is fully committed to ecologically sustainable tourism with a focus on experiencing natural areas, while fostering environmental and cultural understanding, appreciation and conservation.
Our KWA lodges, camps and adventure touring operations are eco-certified at the highest level. We are proud to be one of the few tour operators with Advanced Ecotourism certification, which officially recognises the outstanding economically, environmentally and socially sustainable practices we adopt. Also boasting Eco-certified Tourism accreditation is APT's exclusive Kings Canyon Wilderness Lodge in the Northern Territory.
APT has also received Respecting Our Culture (ROC) endorsement. This program uniquely acknowledges APT's cultural protocols and authenticity, as well as our sustainable business and environmental practices.
Further, APT is an Accredited Tourism Business having met the requirements of the National Tourism Accreditation Standard.
Our Valued People
The APT Group employs more than 700 people around the globe to provide exceptional touring experiences for our customers. From our Tour Directors and Camp Hosts to our Product, Operations and Reservations teams - we are proud to be an employer of choice for all of our staff. Further to this, we are proud of being
a family organisation, based on strong values.
Our aim is to foster an ongoing environment of support for our people, to provide them rewarding careers and to ultimately assist in them meeting their personal and family goals.
APT Conservation Fund
The APT Charitable and Conservation Fund was established in 2003. Every year, a percentage of our profits and time goes towards supporting our conservation projects.
We support the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, dedicated to preserving Indigenous wildlife at Mornington Sanctuary in the Kimberley, Brooklyn Sanctuary near Cairns and Karakamia Sanctuary near Perth. We also sponsor a Tasmanian Devil, Delilah, to encourage the species' survival.
Employment Opportunities
Anyone wishing to obtain information on a position with APT Kimberley Wilderness Adventures should see the range of employment opportunities we currently have available here.
