Jon Baines Tours is a specialist travel company curating medical, professional non-medical, and cultural study tours and cruises to destinations around the world.
Our wonderful team is our engine, fuel and spark. We're a tight-knit, family-owned team that combine a love of travel and life with an extraordinary range of skills and experience in our London and Melbourne offices. The co-owners, Jon and Karen, are British and Australian respectively, hence such a global presence for a boutique company. The advantage to this is local attention and knowledge with a global reach, as well as someone being on call 24/7.
We try to include visits to local community projects on our tours. These visits shine a light on the issues faced by communities, and the innovative solutions practiced. We hope our visits can help raise the profile of these projects, and we commit to providing a donation after each visit.
Local projects we support
(Local guide) Long was amazing. He made you feel safe, he had extensive knowledge of Vietnam’s history, and current day city advice was valuable. He was easy to embrace as one of the group. (Tour leader) Kylie Ward was a great tour leader. Responsive to requests and suggestions, she worked well with the tour guides. Kylie was inclusive, consultative of the group, kind, caring and full of humour. Kylie represented the ACN at the visits impeccably and her communication with the hospital and clinic leaders / managers was respectful and professional. She was amazing!
(Tour leader) Cathy (Warwick) is so lovely and very knowledgeable about the areas visited on our tour. She made sure we were well looked after and none of got lost. Thanks Cathy for a memorable trip.
The food and service were uniformly outstanding. A small group of 12 worked brilliantly. The ship’s crew are exemplary. The ship – even though full – never felt crowded. The food exceeded all expectations. An excellent experience. The Corinthia Hotel was a tremendous finale.
We curate specialist bespoke tours for organisations of any type. We put meticulous planning into the design of each tour.
We can help create a unique travel experience for your organisation to inspire and challenge your team.
We work with conferences around the world to create pre or post congress travel packages.
The New Colombo Plan is an Australian scholarship program for educational opportunities aboad.
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If you are a professional with a passion for travel, or a destination management company with a unique offer, get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.
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