The Best Leaders Across The World

Our leaders are as passionate about walking and discovering the world as you are. Experienced in leading, usually but not necessarily in the area of the holiday, each has their own infividual style and particular talents. All are first aid trained, hold walking leader qualifications commensurate with the grade of holidays they lead and often have good foreign language skills.What is unsurpassed is their resourcefulness, wide travel knowledge and commitment to making your holiday as friendly and as pleasurable as possible.

Passionate, Knowledgeable Tour Leaders

Our tour leaders turn a good holiday into a great one. Carefully selected by us, they are highly experienced, all holding walking qualifications , with specialist expertise ranging from botany to archaeology. Their skills and personalities mean that they will bring your trip alive, acting as a friend and a guide to the whole group.

Our tour leaders are:

• Passionate
• Knowledgeable and resourceful
• Enthusiastic
• Gregarious but approachable
• Problem solvers
• Organised and practical

And our leaders have:

• In-depth love of and insight into the areas in which they lead, often resident in the country
• People skills aplenty
• Hillwalking or Mountain Leadership Training
• Foreign language abilities where appropriate
• Outdoor First aid training
• Health & Safety expertise

For them, being a Ramblers Worldwide tour leader is a way of life, not just a job. They are entirely dedicated to ensuring that you have the holiday experience of a lifetime. And although they’re leading a group hoilday, our tour leaders won’t lose sight that every group is made up of individuals.

Whether on the world’s most beautiful walks or in the many fascinating villages and cities we visit, our leaders’ primary role is to ensure that you have a safe and enjoyable holiday. They are often mines of information on local history and the natural world, and many are accomplished linguists, providing you with a deeper insight into local cultures.

We also employ and train some local tour eaders as well as working with trained or specialist local area guides on many of our long haul or developing destinations. Native to the area, their friendly welcome and special insights are hugely popular further enhancing your experience of the country, adding real character and flavour - and keeping our clients coming back for more!

Free or rest days

On most holidays, the tour leader will have one day’s break a week, enabling you to have a ‘free’ day too!

Our Leaders are an integral part of our short breaks and holidays and we are always interested in recruiting new leaders with the right experience, qualifications and aptitude.  Follow this link to find out more about a career as a walking holiday leader.
 

We have a team of over 300 leaders worldwide, each with their own individual style, particular talents and favourite destinations. They help make your guided walking holiday experience extra special, so let’s meet a few... 

Joan Feather
Joan is an experienced leader with over 10 years of leading for us in Europe and Worldwide. With fluent French, early on, she led in Morocco, now this country together with other Muslim countries has become of real interest to her. However, she puts a great deal of preparation, energy and enthusiasm into all her tours.

Al & Jane Sargeant
Al has led holidays since 2007, having gained extensive alpine experience during a long RAF career. He and his wife Jane (also an experienced hiker) usually work together, with Jane keeping Al’s over enthusiasm in check! They are passionate about exploring new places.

Keith & Theresa Milton
Theresa and Keith are experienced leaders having led for Ramblers for over 10 years both in Europe and worldwide. Together, their expertise, enthusiasm and knowledge of the natural world bring added interest to all their tours.

Karen Groenewald
Karen and her husband Fred lived for many years in South Africa and lead there for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays. They are national registered and specialist field guides and Karen’s specialities are wild flowers, birds and mammals.

Julian Wilkes
Weekend walking became more important than a corporate career in Management for Julian, so he quit and qualified as a full time leader for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays. He believes it is the best way to discover and observe the world and meet like-minded people.

Wendy Smith
In 1992, Wendy took a year’s career break to pursue her love of high mountains in South America, Nepal and New Zealand, and never went back! She returns every year to her beloved Alpujarras in Spain, and as a Spanish speaker leads many tours in South America, as well as South Africa, New Zealand, China and Nepal. Having recently learnt Italian, she now leads in Sicily and Tuscany as well. 

Alf Robertson
Fourteen years on from jumping Hadrian´s Wall, escaped Scot Alf Robertson is still at large and being sheltered by a benevolent Ramblers Worldwide Holidays management. Sightings are most common in Spain and South America but he can be found anywhere where there are lovely mountains to walk in and rich culture to enjoy – so you may come across him on almost any Ramblers Worldwide Holiday!

George Reynolds
George Reynolds has led over 40 different holidays since he started as a leader for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays in 1997. His favourite places are Italy, South Africa and more recently Montenegro.

Bob Rogers
Bob Rogers loves exploring the mountains and wilder places of Spain and showing them to Ramblers Worldwide Holiday clients. He tells us there is nothing he would rather be doing – and it shows!

Angela Brown
Started as a leader for Ramblers Worldwide Holiday about 8 years ago. Her first tour was in Greece and she hasn’t looked back since. Often to be found on the island of Samos where she has lots of friends and knows lots of lovely walks. She also enjoys leading on our Cruise & Walk tours. Her main leading philosophy is to be as flexible as possible and there is no such thing as ‘lost’ – just a different way home!

Sara Dale
Five years ago Sara decided to put her love of languages, travel and outdoors together and became a RWH leader mainly dividing her time between Spain and Peru. Her fluent Spanish and knowledge of local culture and customs are sure to enhance your holiday experience.

Simon Cane
In 2002 Simon decided he preferred the outdoors, and so gave up his IT management job and started leading for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays. He has gone over the Col de Balme 11 times so far on either the Tour du Mont Blanc or the Haute Route. He is fluent in French and German and has a special interest in flora and geology.

Annette Cotter
Annette took very early retirement from investment management to lead for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays.  You’ll find her leading in the world’s wilder places (the more remote the better) – nothing fazes her!  She also loves sightseeing tours such as St Petersburg, leads our downhill ski programme and surveys new holidays.  Her ambition is to still be trekking in Patagonia at the age of 85!

Sam Roebuck
Sam has been leading for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays since 2006. Interested in all things Roman, he can usually be found giving his infamous ’Little Lectures’ on tours with a strong Roman content, like our ’Hadrian’s Wall’ tour. The Emperor Hadrian was once referred to as a ’Curiositatum Omnium Explorator’ (searcher for the new and interesting), a phrase that could just as easily describe Sam.

Bill Kenney
Bill lived aboard for 38 years in Malta, Arabia, Germany and Holland, before retiring to Mumbles. After a varied and interesting career in the army he joined Ramblers Worldwide Holidays in 2000 to continue travelling. A ski instructor; as well as leading skiing and winter walking he enjoys leading in the Alps, Oman, Syria and Jordan, Morocco, the Mediterranean, Hong Kong and China. His experience aboard and languages are often put to good use, and he always endeavours to maximise the holiday experience. Bill is interested in history and local customs and seeks to share his knowledge with our clients. Enthusiastic and well organised Bill researched the Ramblers Worldwide Holidays tour in Oman where he served attached to the SAS in the sixties.