Lindblad CEO Wants Expedition Travel to Stay Niche
Photo Credit: Sven-Olof Lindblad, CEO of Lindblad Expeditions, spoke in the Skift Take Studio. Skift
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More people are visiting hard-to-reach destinations, and the travel companies that take them there are reckoning with the impact of the higher volume of tourists. How much growth is too much? We'll probably find out in the coming years.
The expedition cruise category is growing fast as established players build more ships and luxury lines add more adventurous options.
Lindblad Expeditions, which is building a polar vessel, is part of that growth — but CEO Sven-Olof Lindblad wants his sector to stay outside the mainstream.
"Expedition travel is not something that I would ever wish to see be the nor
