NTIA Finalist: Most Outstanding Leisure Travel Agency – Single Location 2025
NTIA WINNER: Most Outstanding Travel Consultant Leisure 2024 – Emma Smith
NTIA Finalist: Most Outstanding Travel Consultant Leisure 2023 – Emma Smith
NTIA Finalist: Most Outstanding Leisure Travel Agency – Single Location 2023
NTIA/CATO WINNER: Adventure Consultant of the Year 2019 – Leanne Flanagan Smith
Founded in 1984 by two mates who fell in love with trekking in Nepal, Back Track Adventures has evolved into an award-winning travel agency dedicated to helping curious travellers explore the world and return with memories that last a lifetime.
Our Tours team continues to coordinate treks in the Himalayas and Mt Kilimanjaro, and our collection of Journeys has expanded to include a range of African safaris and 4WD adventures along with Italian Food Odysseys.
Our specialist travel advisors design personalised holidays for travellers wanting to fulfill a wish-list experience, go beyond the usual highlights of a destination or simply explore somewhere new.
Having weathered multiple global events, our Founders have retired and BTA’s next generation is continuing their legacy of professional and personalised service backed by expert knowledge and firsthand experience.
Travel is about more than simply seeing a destination — it’s about the moments, connections and stories that stay with you long after you return home.
For more than 40 years, we’ve been helping clients turn travel dreams into unforgettable journeys. Our experience brings confidence and peace of mind, but it’s our personal approach that sets us apart. We take the time to listen and understand what matters most.
We’re the experts who help you travel deeper, dream bigger, and come home with stories worth telling.
We’ve been doing this since 1984. Our award-winning team have over 100 years of combined experience and have explored the seven continents and seven oceans. Our firsthand knowledge ensures no detail is overlooked and allows us to share local insights and tips that create moments you’ll remember.
We understand adventure is personal. Whether you’re trekking or tasting, cruising or cycling, exploring or escaping, seeking adventure or slowing the pace, we create journeys that reflect the way you want to experience the world.
We’re proud to be an ATIA Accredited business that is accountable to elevated standards of service delivery and professionalism. This ensures peace of mind for our travellers from booking to return.
Sometimes the unexpected happens. We offer 24/7 emergency support for our travellers in their time of need.
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With great travel comes great responsibility, and Back Track Adventures work hard to ensure the impact we have on the communities we visit is positive and sustainable. Some of the notable projects we are involved in are outlined below.
Light Up Naduri
Through our Kokoda Treks, Back Track is the major employer, and therefore the major source of income, for the people of Naduri village. We currently employ approximately 120 people from the village. The welfare of our employees and families are important to us. Back Track is activley incvolved in improving the living conditions of the residents as well as respecting their lifestyle and beliefs – we recognise and do not trek on the Sabbath.
In October 2018, we installed 43 solar powered lights in homes in the Naduri Village, which is made up of approximately 500 people. This made an extremely positive impact on the local community as it enabled students to study at night, provides a safe clean source of light and will encourage more productive time for family and the community. Josh Niven, the elected ward representative said, “We were born in darkness and now we have light.”
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all the friends of Back Track who donated a little and a lot to fund this project.
On the first night of light, people could be heard calling from home to home in local Motu language… “we are happy, we are happy”. This project was completed in cooperation and partnership with the Kokoda Track Foundation (KTF).
Giving Back in Nepal
We are one of the only Australian-based trekking companies with a permanent office in Nepal. Our Nepal office play a lead role in the activities and practices of the Sustainable Tourism Network in Nepal, as well as other local sustainable tourism initiatives. Our treks, such as the Annapurna Community Lodge and Everest High Passes trek, actively work to bring tourism dollars into different regions of Nepal, growing the local economies and benefiting the local people. They also work hard to ensure the local environment is cared for and preserved.