When Paul Brousseau, chief customer officer for Quark Expeditions, told Cruise Trade News that we are entering a “re-energised era in expedition travel”, we couldn’t help but get excited. “The travel
void of the pandemic has created new demand for the extraordinary,” he explains, speaking to us for the supplement’s trends focus on page six. Is it any wonder that expedition cruising is now the most emergent sector of the cruise industry?

Indeed, whether it’s sinking to the ocean floor in a submarine in search of elusive Arctic sea life, sitting fireside with Inuit tribes in Canada’s tundra valleys or sampling Caribbean cooking against the backdrop of St Lucia’s Pitons, one thing is clear: expedition travel is evolving.

Join us as we set out to uncover why more people are turning to this visceral form of exploration as a way of discovering the world, while we reveal the best citizen science programmes to help guests give back to the environment.