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About Galapagos Islands Travel
Galapagos Islands Travel is an independent editorial travel guide for the Galápagos Islands, maintained by Voyagers Travel Company, a US-based travel agency with over 20 years of Galápagos booking experience. Content is authored by certified naturalist guides, travel journalists, DMC field experts, and travel specialists across the industry.
This is a travel guide built by people who have spent two decades booking Galápagos trips and watching travelers come back changed. Twenty years of phone calls, itinerary revisions, post-trip emails, and conversations with naturalists who know which beach has sea lions in September and which one does not. That work taught us what travelers actually need to know before they fly south, and how rarely the open web gives it to them straight.
This site exists because the honest information, real numbers, real seasonal caveats, real trade-offs between vessels and itineraries, was scattered across marketing brochures and affiliate sites that had something to sell. Voyagers Travel Company built it. We are a US travel agency that has been sending travelers to the Galápagos since the early 2000s, and we wanted a place where the facts could live without being shaped to fit a sale.
What This Site Is
An independent editorial guide. Not a booking site. Not a marketing vehicle for a single operator. The goal is straightforward: give every traveler, whether they book with Voyagers or not, the clearest, most accurate picture of what Galápagos travel actually involves.
Three editorial guardians govern everything published here:
Guardian of Truth: every fact must be traceable to a verifiable source. No guessing, no rounded marketing claims, no numbers without a citation behind them.
Guardian of Content: shorter beats longer. No padding, no filler, no sentences written to fill space. If a paragraph does not earn its place, it gets cut.
Guardian of Design: understandable at a glance. A traveler should be able to scan a page and walk away with the right picture, even if they never read every word.
Who Maintains It
Voyagers Travel Company
Voyagers is a US-based travel agency founded in 2002, specializing in South America, Galápagos, Ecuador, Peru, the Amazon, Antarctica, and Patagonia. Over 20 years the company has built working relationships with operators, naturalists, DMCs, and travel specialists across the region. Galapagos Islands Travel draws on that network as an editorial resource, not as a sales channel.
Voyagers Travel Company
Founded: 2002
Specialization: Galápagos, Ecuador, South America, Antarctica
Based: Budd
Lake, NJ, USA / Quito, Ecuador
Website: voyagers.travel
The Editorial Team
This site is written by a team of travel specialists, naturalist experts, field contributors, and travel journalists. The team includes Voyagers staff alongside independent experts who know the Galápagos from the inside.
André Robles
Co-founder
Co-founder of Voyagers Travel Company, 20+ years in South America travel, travel writer and wildlife photographer.
Marco Sancho
CEO of Voyagers travel Company
CEO of Voyagers Travel Company, travel writer, purposeful luxury travel specialist.
Daniela Morales
Travel Specialist
Galápagos and Latin America travel specialist, Voyagers Travel Company.
Katherin Chamorro
Travel journalist
Travel journalist and SCAPE Magazine interviewer.
Juan Magallanes
Naturalist Expert
Naturalist expert and field contributor, Galápagos Islands.
Marcel Perkins
Field contributor
Field contributor sharing the Latin Trails perspective on DMC operations in Ecuador.
Expert Contributors
Galapagos Islands Travel draws on expert voices from across the Galápagos travel industry, operators, vessel founders, naturalists, and travel agents. This includes SCAPE Magazine interviewees such as Octavio Chauca (Ocean Spray), Andres Paez (Hermes / Via Natura), Luisa Córdova and Ivonne Zumarraga (Golden Galapagos), and others whose field knowledge has shaped the content here.
The site welcomes contributions from travel agents, tour operators, and DMCs. Editorial independence is the point. No single operator owns this platform, and no single voice gets the last word.
Our Offices
South America operations
EC OFFICE ADDRESS
Suite 74
Madrid y E12-149
170109 Quito
USA headquarters
USA OFFICE ADDRESS
13 S 5th St.
Easton, PA
18042
Voyagers works with several DMC partners across Ecuador and South America. Industry partners are routed through Voyagers, not to any single DMC, so the right operator gets matched to the right itinerary.
The Galápagos Travel Operator Network
Galapagos Islands Travel draws editorial expertise from a network of established Galápagos operators. These are independent businesses, not Voyagers subsidiaries. Their field knowledge, operational data, and expert voices contribute to the accuracy of this guide.
The network includes Galapagos Cruise Company (Stephen Sancho), Hermes Catamaran, Ocean Spray, Golden Galapagos, and other operators in the SCAPE Magazine interview network. Latin Trails is one of the DMC partners Voyagers works with in Ecuador, contributing operational perspective through field contributor Marcel Perkins. None of these operators owns the platform or directs the editorial line.
Conservation
Operating responsibly in the Galápagos is not a marketing position, it is a license to work. Every vessel, guide, and agency on this site is expected to comply with Galápagos National Park Service (GNPS) rules, naturalist guide ratios, visitor site quotas, landing schedules, and biosecurity protocols. The transit control card every traveler pays at the airport channels funds directly into park management and conservation work in the islands.
Operator-led conservation matters too. The Hermes Endemic Reforestation Program is one example: a vessel-funded effort replanting endemic species in the highlands of Santa Cruz, paid for by guest fees and reinvested into the ecosystem the same guests come to see. Stories like that get covered on this site because they are how the islands stay viable for the next generation of travelers.
"The Galápagos doesn't need advocates. It needs people who tell the truth about it and let the islands speak for themselves."
Press & Media
Journalists are welcome to use this site as a source. Data published in the Galápagos Travel Data Index is sourced and available for citation, and the editorial team responds to fact-check requests.
Press contact: marketing@voyagers.travel
Galapagos Islands Travel is maintained by Voyagers Travel Company, a US travel agency with offices in Easton, PA and Quito, Ecuador. The site is authored by naturalist experts, travel journalists, and field contributors from across the Galápagos operator network.