This article showcases our top picks for the best New York based Adventure Travel companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Adventure Travel industry, but are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top New York Adventure Travel Companies
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
AllTheRooms
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AllTheRooms is the world’s first and only complete room metasearch engine, combining hotels with home stays (like Airbnb), secret deals (like Hotwire), and all other types of accommodations. Existing hotel-focused metasearch engines, never present travelers with all of the rooms available in a given destination, forcing the traveler to visit dozens of different sites.
They save the customer time by combining absolutely every room on the internet.. .
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Heli
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Travel Marketplace & Booking Software
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TWIP – Travel With Interesting People
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We connect people to experiences, activities and travelers based on your travel personality.
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Grown Ocean
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The mobile app for planning your outdoor adventures.
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Black Tomato
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Black Tomato is a bespoke luxury travel company that delivers imaginative and travel experiences around the world. They create inspiring itineraries in up-and-coming remote destinations and have been awarded accolades such as Conde Nast Traveler’s World’s Best Travel Specialists and Travel + Leisure’s A-List, recognized for providing their clients with unparalleled access with the inside track wherever they are headed.
Black Tomato has offices in both the US and UK. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York..
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GlobeTrotr.com
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Globetrotr.com is a location-based social discovery application for the travel activities and tour market.
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VAWAA
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VAWAA stands for Vacation With An Artist. It’s a curated marketplace for art-hungry travelers that offers short-term experiences with artists, designers, and creatives around the world.
Through VAWAA, a traveler of any skill level can book a several-day immersive learning experience with a street artist in Buenos Aires, an ikebana master in Kyoto, and a bamboo bicycle-maker in Bangalore, among other artists representing a vast array of art forms, and come back home with a new skill. Their mission is to define the future of travel by bringing humanity back into travel and creativity into our lives and community..
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TravSolo
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Create your itinerary on-the-go, meet people and to bring back home a story to tell.
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Rail Europe Group
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Rail Europe are all ambassadors for the real Europe which is discovered uniquely through train travel. They take pride in Their company’s European heritage and are passionate about sharing Their experiences, cultures, and insights.
They develop Their expertise and knowledge in order to provide North American travelers with an authentic European experience. They believe the spirit of train travel is about enjoying simple pleasures, respecting the environment and connecting to people, places and cultures.
It is the ease with which Rail Europe brings these together that creates a rewarding experience for both Their customers and Their selves. They value always doing the right thing – being environmentally conscious, trustworthy and accessible to Their customers and to each other.
As trains do, They at Rail Europe continually move ahead. They strive to progress, innovate, and be outstanding in all that They do..
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Gorp.Com
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GORP is the largest and most trafficked Web site dedicated to outdoor recreation and adventure travel.
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Sourced Adventures
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Connecting locals to organized adventure designed to make outdoor recreation easy and more accessible. From Ski/Snowboard trips to Whitewater Rafting day-long excursions, we get you out of the city and experiencing awesome activities.
We have two overarching goals. First, is to bring locals fully-curated, world-class experiences.
Second, is to help activity operators optimize their businesses by connecting them to new customers.. .
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Teamtourist
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TeamTourist, the smart new way to book your tours.
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InterMedia Outdoors Holdings
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InterMedia Outdoors is the premier outdoor sports-oriented media group in the United States.
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Urban Escapes
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Urban Escapes, a company which organizes week-end excursions for young professionals.
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Emisari
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Emisari connects people wanting volunteer experiences with nonprofit organizations, book their trip, & pay in one seamless experience.
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Loculars
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Loculars is a marketplace where local, professional photographers offer authentic and immersive photography experiences. These are three- to five-hour experiences for the most part, conducted in a private group.
Photographers are hand-picked and experiences curated to ensure participants end up with distinct memories and photos. Our community of photographers is highly accomplished with many award-winning street, travel and documentary photographers with features on publications such The New York Times, National Geographic etc..
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NutriVentures
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Nutri Ventures is a powerful story, with lots of adventures and engaging characters, specially designed to make kids feel good by having fun, and providing interactive content. It’s the first animated series, targeted at kids under 10, with multiplatform content that will engage and entertain children while creating an opportunity to educate them on the importance of healthy food.
But Nutri Ventures is much more than an animated series: It’s a Cause! It contains specific content for parents, educators and others stakeholders, promotes healthy food and establishes partnerships to develop additional content and support nutritional programs. Nutri Ventures vision is to engage our children through entertainment to educate them about proper nutrition and create an exciting overall environment about healthy food!.
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bivvy
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Search the Backcountry – bivvy helps find wilderness campsites near you and make connections with other backcountry adventurers.
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Fast Motion Games
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Fast Motion Games is a NY-based video game development company.
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Blood, Sweat & Cheers
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Blood, Sweat & Cheers is the free daily email for active men and women striving to be fit, be adventurous and make everyday life more fun. Every weekday BSC’s editors recommend the one essential event, activity, workout or product you need to know about that day to do something fun and active with friends.
BSC is where you discover everything from a neon fun run party to a zombie obstacle course to a smartphone app that pays you to exercise. And BSC makes it easy to share these things, so you can go out, feel healthy, have fun with friends or enjoy more interesting dates.
The BSC team lives what they do. They spotlight only the things they’d tell our friends.
Nothing less. They are a dodgeball player, a marathoner, two Tough Mudder finishers and a beer mug-lifting champion.
The team has previously worked at Maxim, ABC News, AOL, Soccer.com and Jetsetter. Blood, Sweat & Cheers won a 2013 Webby Award Honoree distinction.
It has also partnered with numerous advertisers including Red Bull and Crunch gyms.. .
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TopView Sightseeing
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TopView Sightseeing is a double decker bus company offers sightseeing tours.
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Gydem
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With a passion for travel and exploration of new environments, “CitiGyde” was founded in early 2015. The company’s goal is to improve the travel experience for tourists all over the world.
Gydem is a mobile application that matches independent tourists with local inhabitants of a destination city. Our application uses geo-mapping and proximity matching in concurrence with a social rating system in order to provide the most convenient tour services available.
Users will have the option to book services with priority given to time sensitivity or quality, giving them exactly what they want, exactly when they want it. Unlike traditional tour guide organizations, anyone will be able to sign up to be a local tour guide with the Gydem Application.
Each tour guide will operate independently with no direction coming from the parent company. Decisions for tours will be made on the local’s knowledge, the traveler’s interests, and the availability of events/services at the time of operation.
Charging an hourly rate for their service, the tour guides will have travelers pay for the tour through our application. Once we [the application developers] take a percentage of the revenue made from the sale, the remaining sum of money will be delivered to the tour guide as payment for their service.
While there has been a dramatic rise in the number of “on-demand, geo-centric” services in a wide variety of neighboring industries, this particular phenomenon has yet to reach main stream status within the travel/hospitality industry. There are a number of applications that try to deliver guided tours within specified locations but very few take advantage of the person-to-person, local-on-tourist environment that can be created with modern technology.
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Snap Outdoors
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Yelp, e-how and meetup for the outdoors
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American Fun
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Travel on curated events throughout Europe with your friends and thousands of other adventurers ages 18 to 35. www.AmericanFun.com
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Escapeer.com
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Escapeer.com is an online network for leisure and adventure activities that helps users find and book activities online in real time.
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Explorer Whiz
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Explorer Whiz is an online travel agency providing travelers with cheap airline tickets and flight deals to destinations worldwide.
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Ron Zilkha of Cruise Holidays
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• Ron Zilkha of Cruise Holidays is a Travel Agency specialized in individual and group luxury cruises and all inclusive land vacations.
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Jaunster
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Jaunster, in a nutshell, is Instagram for food and adventure. It’s the most simple and enjoyable way to discover the places around you.
Jaunster is a mobile app that focuses on location based, social photo-sharing. With Jaunster, you’re able to take pictures then tag the place you’re in and share them with your friends and with all users near you.
Their camera will also allow you to better express your experiences by using built-in features such as filters, emojis and virtual stickers. Jaunster will also show you what’s trending locally through their local hashtags feature..
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FlyAmple
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Have you ever wanted to fly in a small airplane? FlyAmple enables you the easiest way to get in the air.
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HiCinko LLC
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HiCinko is an online agency providing cheap flight tickets and airline deals that help travelers to travel within the budget.
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Buy Business Class
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Buy Business Class is an online travel agency providing cheap business class flights, first class flight deals, low cost tickets and more.
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