Wilder Places, Rewilding Europe’s newly launched tourism booking platform, offers nature-loving travellers unique and impactful experiences across some of our flourishing rewilding landscapes. Book your next adventure through Wilder Places – and help us make Europe a wilder place.
Immerse yourself in thriving nature
Rewilding Europe’s burgeoning portfolio of rewilding landscapes lie at the heart of our mission to restore European nature and support local communities. Spread across the continent, they showcase the power of rewilding – as unique places where wildlife and people are thriving together, ecosystems are recovering, and the growth of nature-positive businesses is helping transform socio-economic narratives.
In exciting news, nature lovers now have the opportunity to witness the rebirth of these landscapes first-hand, with the official launch of Wilder Places – our new tourism booking platform. A key component of Rewilding Europe’s commitment to scale up rewilding tourism, Wilder Places offers aspiring travellers the chance to reconnect with nature and enjoy thrilling, meaningful, and uniquely immersive experiences in the European wild. The platform will also strengthen collaboration, bringing together partners and local entrepreneurs across our rewilding landscapes to co-create an exciting and authentic network of rewilding experiences and amplify the positive impact of rewilding.
Travel with a purpose
From tracking wolves and bears in ancient forests, to witnessing free-flowing rivers and vast river deltas teeming with life, Wilder Places helps people experience rewilding on the ground – through easily booked nature-based stays, multi-day experiences, local guides, and wild encounters. The platform acts as a marketplace, connecting vetted experience providers in Rewilding Europe’s landscapes with potential clients. In return, the platform helps such providers to raise their profile and enhance profitability, while a percentage of each booking is used to support rewilding efforts in the landscapes where they operate.
“While managed by Rewilding Europe, the strength and success of Wilder Places will depend on collaboration between travellers, nature-positive entrepreneurs in our landscapes, and our committed and passionate rewilding landscape teams,” says Bart Schutz, Rewilding Europe’s Tourism Manager. “This approach ensures that wild nature, nature-based businesses, and communities in the landscapes all benefit.
“A rewilding tourism experience booked through Wilder Places is more than a holiday – it’s a commitment to making Europe a wilder place. Every trip booked through us supports the vital comeback of iconic wildlife species and the restoration of natural processes and landscapes. By choosing to visit a landscape that is being rewilded, travellers help nature heal and support the growth of vital nature-based economies.”
“A rewilding tourism experience booked through Wilder Places is more than a holiday – it’s a commitment to making Europe a wilder place.”
Bart Schutz
Tourism Manager, Rewilding Europe
Explore an ever-developing platform
Wilder Places will initially offer travellers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to book and market nature-based experiences in three of Rewilding Europe’s rewilding landscapes – the Central Apennines in Italy, the Greater Cõa Valley in Portugal, and the Southern Carpathians in Romania. More offerings in these landscapes and others will be added as we grow the platform and it develops into an ever-more vibrant rewilding tourism hub.
These first three landscapes are all compelling travel destinations. Boasting dramatic scenery and rich cultural heritage, they are home to recovering populations of some of Europe’s most iconic wildlife species – from griffon vultures in the Greater Cõa Valley, to Marsican brown bears in the Central Apennines, to European bison in the Southern Carpathians. Those who book rewilding experiences here will have the opportunity to enjoy thrilling wildlife encounters, and to see first-hand how rewilding efforts are revitalising wild nature and transforming the outlook for local businesses and communities.
Go wild with us
Wilder Places is just beginning its own journey. Moving forwards, it will feature an ever-increasing number of landscapes, partners, and ways to experience a wilder Europe. This growth depends on you. We warmly invite you to share your experiences and ideas, helping us to shape a platform that actively supports nature recovery and benefits people. Tour operators interested in partnering with us to unlock our landscapes to visitors are very welcome to get in touch.
Wilder Places is not only a gateway to the wonder of nature and transformative impact of rewilding. As it develops, it will help to scale up that impact. Choose Wilder Places for carefully curated, hand-picked tours and experiences in our rewilding landscapes and travel with a purpose, knowing you are supporting our mission to make Europe wilder.
Want to know more?
- Wilder Places
- Contact the Wilder Places team at hello@wilderplaces.com