Gap Adventures is excited to announce that it has been named on the Great Place To Work Institute Canada’s prestigious 2010 list of the 75 Best Workplaces in Canada. <br><br> Gap Adventures has long focused on building a strong company culture and has emphasized its core values in all aspects of business. Gap Adventures actively hires entrepreneurial travel addicts who love changing lives and are determined to lead their industry in service. <br><br> “I’m very proud and humbled that Gappers ...

In 2009, Gap Adventures won the prestigious World Tourism Award sponsored by American Express, Corinthia Hotels, International Herald Tribune and Reed Travel Exhibitions at the World Travel Mart event. Receiving this award based on our committed effort to sustainable community development through our non-profit organization, the Planeterra Foundation, is something that our supporters and travelers should all be proud of.

In 2009, Gap Adventures was honoured to win the World Savers Award from Condé Nast Traveler. Taking home the win for Tour Operators, the award was received in New York City and recognizes our dedication to corporate social responsibility and the development and support of small communities around the globe through our non-profit organization, Planeterra.

In 2005 & 2006, Gap Adventures received recognition as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers and Canada's Ten Best Employers for Young People. In 2006-7, Gap Adventures was also selected as one of Greater Toronto’s Top 50 Employers.

From 2006-8, Gap Adventures has been recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies. This prestigious award honours companies operating at the highest levels of business performance. From thousands of entries, Gap Adventures rose to the top for being a dynamic, aggressive company which focuses on its core vision, creates stakeholder value and excels in the global economy.

For the past two years, National Geographic Adventure magazine has named Gap Adventures on its Best Outfitters on Earth competition. Gap Adventures received an overall score of 96.6% for 2009 and 95.9% for 2008 for its excellence in quality of service, spirit of adventure, sustainability and education.

In 2009 National Geographic Traveler awarded Gap Adventures a spot on their Tours of a Lifetime list. Gap Adventures Voodoo Trail trip which visits Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso, was featured in the culture category. Gap Adventures has won this award for the third time.

In 2008, Gap Adventures won the 2009 British Youth Travel Awards in the Green Tourism Category. This award recognizes the efforts that youth travel organizations make to maximize their positive impact on the environments and local communities in which they operate. Entrants were required to demonstrate proven commitment to sustainable best practice through innovation that is having a positive long-term impact.

In 2008, our Project Cambodia trip was selected by National Geographic Traveler magazine for its Tours of a Lifetime issue. Project Cambodia offers travelers the opportunity to assist a local community by helping to assemble wheelchairs for landmine victims.

In 2008, Gap Adventures received the Environmental Industry Award from Flight Centre North America. This award recognizes a travel industry supplier partner that has made the greatest effort to minimize their environmental impact.

In 2008, Gap Adventures was voted by more than 3,500 Canadian Travel Agents in the 2008 Agents’ Choice Awards as #1 Adventure Tour Operator. Gap Adventures was also awarded a top spot as one of the Best Environmentally Friendly Companies. Gap Adventures was awarded the most number one votes – winning the top spot in each region in order to place first in the Adventure Tour Operator category, beating out the second place finisher by more than 1,700 votes.

In 2008, Gap Adventures founder, Bruce Poon Tip was awarded with the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies' Travel Personality of the Year Award which recognizes and honours individuals whose careers have made an enduring impact on the development and expansion of the travel industry.

In 2008, Gap Adventures received the Tanzania Tourist Board Tour Operator Humanitarian Award. This prestigious award recognizes tour operators for their outstanding support and highlight those companies who give back to the local communities they visit.

In 2008, Gap Adventures was pleased to be awarded Strategy Magazine's cause + action award, which honours brands that are making a socially responsible difference.

In 2008, Gap Adventures was named a finalist by the Globe Foundation for the Corporate Award for Environmental Excellence which recognizes outstanding achievement in environmental stewardship in Canada. This award is presented annually to companies and industry groups who have balanced competitive business strategies and sustainable development.

In 2008, Gap Adventures Director of Human Resources, Sue Silk, was named to the Women's Post list of Canada's Top Women in Human Resources.

Annually, Gap Adventures staff participates in an anti-smog campaign run by Pollution Probe, a local NGO. The organization asks companies in Toronto to use more environmentally friendly methods of transportation to commute to work. Gap Adventures has won the Clean Air Commute Award for seven consecutive years, for having 100% participation in the event and this year kept 1,961 kilograms of pollutants from the air. Gap Adventures also promotes the use of public transportation through paying for a portion of ...

Gap Adventures' website was selected by the Travel Mole Web Awards as one of the best tour operator websites in 2007.

In 2007, Bruce Poon Tip was honored with the Chinese Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year award. The award recognized Gap Adventures’ operating success, profitability, and financial health and growth as well as Bruce’s innovation as an industry leader and his corporate citizenship.

In 2007, Bruce received the New Pioneers award in the Entrepreneurship category. These awards publicly recognize the accomplishments made by immigrants and newcomers to Canada.