Welcome to Milestones, the escorted tour specialist

Part of The Leading Travel Companies

Milestones is a division of the family-owned Leading Travel Companies, renowned and trusted around the world for outstanding quality, service, reliability and financial stability. The company is comprised of over twenty of the finest and most recognised international travel and tourism brands, offering an extensive collection of holiday options across the globe. Milestones has carefully selected the finest for you, ensuring the very best escorted holiday experience available, something that no other operator is able to emulate. For over sixty years the company has planned and perfected its escorted tours and with our Worldwide buying power and backing you can be reassured of both the company’s financial security and unmatchable value for money. Now is the time for you to discover what the rest of the world have enjoyed for so long.

Your assurance of our unrivalled standards and quality

Milestones is exclusively focussed on providing quality, service and value. These are just a few reasons why we should be your first decision, making your choice of escorted tour operator an easier one.


  • Milestones is backed by The Leading Travel Companies, trusted and renowned for over 60 years for its outstanding quality, service, reliability and financial stability.


  • Each itinerary is perfectly planned tomake themost of each destination, providing a hassle-free holiday to fulfil your travel dreams.


  • Private-car door to door UK airport transfers.


  • A perfect balance between included meals, highlight dinners and speciality dining.


  • Excursions and entrances included in the tour price along with delightful Hidden Treasures.


  • The highest standards of hotels available, situated in perfect locations.


  • The finest Tour Directors - your historian, guide, interpreter and a good friend - and expert local guides.


  • The most up-to-date, luxurious transportation throughout your tour.


  • A fascinating mix of like-minded English-speaking companions from around the world.


  • Fine tuning of our tours with an in-depth knowledge of our destinations and valuable feedback from our customers to ensure the itinerary meets your travel desires.


  • Your own dedicated Personal Travel Consultant providing the very best in customer service.


  • Great early booking discounts available to all customers.

    • Luxurious transport, first-class hotels and included sightseeing

    We ensure that we have the perfect way for you to travel to your destination. Our coaches carry on average 40 passengers and are the latest fuel efficient vehicles, designed for ultimate safety and a smooth, quiet journey. Daily seat-rotation allows you to experience the passing sights and scenery from different perspectives and to get to know your fellow passengers.

    Our hotels are all perfectly located, exactly where you would want them to be. We choose prestigious top-name properties offering the highest standards of personal service. This means that you are always certain of an excellent choice of nearby dining, entertainment and shopping. When out of town, we stay right in the centre of the National Parks, perhaps in a charming lodge, or in historic monument hotels. When you compare our hotels with properties contracted by other escorted tour operators you will notice that we insist on using the very best hotels available, with daily breakfasts and many other meals included to offer the complete holiday experience.

    Hotel Key

    D = Deluxe

    MD = Moderate Deluxe

    SFC = Superior First Class

    FC = First Class

    MFC = Moderate First Class

    NP = National Park/Lodge Setting

    Our carefully researched itineraries include in the price programmes of sightseeing and excursions ensuring that you experience all of the essential attractions, entrances and sights as well as delightful Hidden Treasures that characterise the area visited. Your Tour Director is often joined by a qualified local guide to add that little bit of extra knowledge.

    Private car UK airport transfers

    Your holiday should begin in real comfort and style. That is why we include our truly unrivalled exclusive door to door airport transfers on all holidays, from your front door to your choice of departure airport in a private executive saloon car. There will be no need for timeconsuming stops to collect other passengers and, on your return journey, we'll meet you at your arrival airport and drive you straight home.

    Our Tour Directors make all the difference

    Your Tour Director’s knowledge, experience and friendliness will be the success of your Milestones tour. As an historian, guide, interpreter, concierge and, after only a few hours, a good friend, they will take pride in offering you advice on the best places for you to eat, shop and visit in your free time, often recommending hidden gems that only an expert would know to show you. They will assist with all hotel check-ins and make sure that every little detail is catered for.

    And to compliment our Tour Directors, sightseeing excursions and city tours are often conducted by qualified local guides who will gladly share their knowledge with you, revealing the colourful history and entertaining anecdotes of the areas that they love and know so well.

    Your own personal travel consultant

    When you first get in touch, you’ll meet your Personal Travel Consultant who will remain your contact throughout your time as a Milestones customer. With an individual direct dial telephone number allocated to you, you can always be sure that you’ll get straight through to the person who knows all of the details regarding your bookings and who will be able to answer any queries that you may have.

    Our extensive, ongoing training ensures that your friendly and professional Travel Consultant is an expert on all areas that our tours visit. They are justly proud of their attention to detail and focus on providing you with the best possible service as well as the confidence to know that your holiday arrangements are in safe hands.

    Worldwide award-winning holidays

    In all of the markets where we operate our tours, we have been the recipients of multiple prestigious awards including an unprecedented eight years in a row as Canada’s Best Coach Operator. We invite you today to come and experience our knowledge and expertise and to come and see for yourself how Milestones are the very best escorted tour operator available.





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    The Leading Travel Companies

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    Tour pace:

    For each itinerary we have created this simple guide to clearly illustrate the nature of your tour from a gentle, leisurely pace to a more lively experience.

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    Tour experience:

    For each itinerary we have created this simple guide to clearly illustrate your touring experience, from the scenic delights of the world's natural wonders to city chic with included excursions and entrances, or a comfortable blend of both.

    Trafalgar Tours

    Trafalgar Tours:

    Trafalgar Tours offer a range of first-class escorted tours including top-class hotels, comprehensive itineraries, luxury transportation, delicious meal plans and knowledgeable tour directors, often joined by experienced local guides.

    Insight Vacations

    Insight Vacations:

    Insight Vacations provides premium-class escorted tours, enabling you to stay in the very best hotels where available, enjoying enhanced meal plans and touring on luxury coaches with fewer seats resulting in extra legroom.

    Thompson's Africa

    Thompson's Africa:

    Thompson's Africa offers excellent first-class escorted tours but with smaller groups ranging from only 2 passengers to 18 per group and touring in air-conditioned micro-buses for a more intimate approach.

    AAT Kings

    AAT Kings:

    AAT Kings, one of Australia's most respected travel companies, provides a range of first-class escorted tours in Australia and New Zealand which include top-class hotels, comprehensive itineraries, luxury transportation, delicious meal plans and knowledgeable tour directors, often joined by experienced local guides.

    Brendan Vacations

    Brendan Vacations:

    When you travel to South America with Brendan, you can expect first class hotels in convenient locations that provide the highest standard of service and the most up-to-date luxurious coaches available