We’re heading into the season when tour companies start announcing their new tours for 2025, so consider this a running list that I’ll add to as I find new itineraries worth highlighting. New tour itineraries are particularly useful if you love traveling with a specific tour company and are looking for a new destination or experience. They’re also a great way to see what experiences a tour company is most excited about sharing with guests.
- EF Go Ahead: EF Go Ahead tours, a tour company focused on affordable education-focused travel, has announced four new India tours starting in March 2025. Tours highlight a mix of big sights and hidden gems. The tours are: Highlights of Northern India, India’s Royal Rajasthan, Highlights of India & Nepal, and South India & Sri Lanka. Prices range from $3,700 to $6,700 per person.
- Tauck: Luxury tour operator Tauck will debut Romantic Capitals, a nine-day European mostly river cruise from Prague to Paris. This Rhine River cruise starts in Prague, stops in Frankfurt, Nuremberg, and other cities and towns along the Rhine. In Trier, the tour pivots from cruise to land journey toward Paris, where the group spends a day sightseeing before the tour ends. The price starts at $9,800 per person.
- Backroads: Active travel company Backroads is launching eight new women’s adventures tours for 2025. This is building off the initial collection 26 of women-only trips. New tours include Blue Ridge & Great Smoky Mountains, California’s Yosemite Valley, Czech Republic & Austria, French Pyrenees to Basque Country, Ireland, Maine, Sicily & the Aeolian Islands, and Tuscany Active Culinary itineraries.
- Adventures by Disney: Adventures By Disney has announced an enhanced-for-2025 version of its existing Central Europe tour. This itinerary from the famously family-friendly tour operator will include Prague, Salzburg, and Vienna, along with the Austrian Alps, four castles, and three palaces. Tours are priced at $7,000 per person (though at press time, there were sale rates available). There’s also an adults-only departure date in the mix.
- Smithsonian and PONANT: Smithsonian Journeys announced a whole host of new small ship journeys for 2025, including a two-week Lisbon to the Canary Islands trip and an eight-day Mediterranean cruise that includes islands in Italy and Spain. It also announced enhancements to its existing circumnavigation of Sicily for 2025. Staring prices range from about $5,000 to $10,000 per person.
