ExpeditionTrips' President Ashton Palmer is recognized on Wendy Perrin's WOW List as a 2020 Trusted Travel Expert for Expedition Cruises. Handpicked by travel veteran Wendy Perrin—TripAdvisor's first ever Travel Advocate and former Condé Nast Traveler reporter—the WOW List represents a collection of the savviest destination specialists accumulated over 25+ years of travel reporting. Ashton Palmer and the crew at ExpeditionTrips are experts on expedition travel, small ship cruises, and ensuring travelers experience their Trip of a Lifetime. Read more
With more than two decades in the expedition travel industry, Palmer has traveled on over 100 small-ship expeditions, including more than 40 trips to Antarctica, and many more throughout the Arctic, the Amazon, the South Pacific and the Galapagos Islands, to name a few.
Beyond the destinations themselves, Palmer is an expert on the different expedition operators in these regions (having worked for many of them throughout his career), and is well regarded for the ability to help travelers identify exactly which expedition experience (destination, ship, etc.) is best suited for their preferences and tastes. “Like stepping through the cover of a National Geographic Magazine, expedition travel is a unique immersion into some of the most remote and awe-inspiring places on Earth. I am fortunate to spend my professional life helping people plan these trips of a lifetime,” he shares.