Jordan Back on the Calendar, Cycling Goes Expedition

After a three-month suspension, G Adventures restarts Jordan departures on August 1 — landing advisors a clean selling window into peak trekking season for the Jordan Trail and Wadi Rum. The restart isn't simply a return to the pre-pause product. Following the operator's GX Summit, the local community-partner count has grown from two to eight experiences, and solo-traveler-specific product has been confirmed in the lineup, a segment showing strong conversion across the adventure category. G Adventures' own post-summit data flagged a 186% surge in traveler numbers, which should translate quickly to compressed inventory across August–November departures. Advisors who parked Jordan files during the suspension should re-engage clients now — particularly for autumn — before availability tightens. The expanded community-based portfolio also gives group leaders a more differentiated programme than pre-suspension Jordan offered.

ExperiencePlus! — named the #1 bike tour operator in the 2026 USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards — is extending its 50-year guided and self-guided model into three expedition-grade destinations under a new Beyond collection: Chilean Patagonia, Finland's Arctic Lapland, and Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater. These aren't day rides appended to a resort stay; the operator is bringing the same local-guide infrastructure it has refined in Europe and North America into terrain advisors already sell for walking and wildlife programmes. The Ngorongoro cycling itinerary is a natural add-on to any northern Tanzania safari booking. Chilean Patagonia cycling pairs directly with the established trekking market around Torres del Paine. The USA Today recognition — a readers' poll, not a trade panel — is a useful credential for client conversations. Advisors building multi-activity Andes or East Africa itineraries now have a bookable cycling SKU from an operator with genuine depth.

A 60-hour closure of the Peru-Colombia river border crossing at the Leticia–Santa Rosa de Yavari triple-border transit — used on Amazon expedition and river-cruise itineraries — that began June 20 at 6 pm local time is due to expire this morning, June 22, at 6 am local. The closure was administrative, tied to Colombia's presidential elections, not a security event. Advisors with clients currently in the field crossing this border should verify with ground operators that transit has actually restored before confirming onward connections — local processing can lag the official lifting. Separately, the UK FCDO's underlying advisories for Peru's VRAEM region and Loreto — both carrying 'all but essential travel' ratings — remain unchanged and continue to shape routing for overland Andes-to-Amazon itineraries regardless of today's border reopening.