About | Slow Adventure

Slow Adventure offers a better type of adventure travel that helps restore the natural balance between people and nature and enriches the lives of all involved.
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We believe in empowering local communities to choose how visitors engage with their natural environments, and all slow adventures are designed and delivered by our local experts.
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By choosing Slow Adventure you contribute directly to the regeneration of the area you visit and become part of the slow adventure movement.

Core team

Slow Adventure Ltd is born out of our founders' experience and expertise as pioneers in the slow adventure movement. We’re now growing the slow adventure movement to enable adventurers to buy into a new type of tourism that’s good at its core and effects positive change for people and planet.

Founder & Managing director

Sara Mair Bellshaw

I'm honoured to be living and breathing the Slow Adventure movement each day. Adventure travel can be a force for good if we choose to change and protect all that we love about this planet.

Email: sara@slow-adventure.com

Founder

Jane Stuart-Smith

Having owned a successful rural restaurant, I know how difficult it is to run a seasonal business in a remote area. Creating high quality local jobs in fragile rural areas is a key motivation for me.

Experience coordinator

Clara Spini

What I love most is helping our Local Partners create high quality, unique adventures that support local communities. To me, this is a constant “Monday Morning Motivation”.

Industry supporter

Catherine Shearer

Having worked in adventure travel for 15 years, it's been my pleasure to support Slow Adventure in their mission to shake up the industry and make positive change.

Local SLOW EXPERTS

Local partners are your main points of contact for enquiries and bookings. They are carefully selected to work with small-scale suppliers in their area to create beautiful, immersive experiences that align with the principles of slow adventure, helping you to make meaningful connections with nature and local culture. With their local knowledge, you can also learn about and choose to support local impact projects that contribute to the conservation, sustainability and regeneration of these wild places. Our team is growing all the time, so keep an eye out for new partners coming soon.

Lleida, Catalonia

Marina

Lochaber, Scotland

Lyndsay

Ranua, Finland

Alexa

I moved back to Finish Lapland in my mid twenties. The forest, the nature, and the silence drove my decision to return to the arctic wilderness.

Valtellina, Italy

Clara

Slow Adventure gives me a way to help visitors make meaningful conscious changes to the way they experience and give back to regenerate Valtellina.

Jämtland Härjedalen, Sweden

Jon

I love nothing more than sharing the amazing mountain culture of the area where I grew up, and eating amazing local delicacies with fun adventurous people!

Arndis

Living in Iceland you can't help having a strong relationship with nature, it is all around you all the time, and I've discovered that this is essential for me to be content and feel at ease.