Special Interest Group Tours

GJ Travel- Guðmunður Jónasson Travel is a family run, independent coach company and ground handler. We create amazing tailor-made tours and vacations in Iceland for more than 85 years. Every year more than 500 groups experience Iceland with GJ Travel, many of them specially tailor made for university and school groups, hiking clubs, photography enthusiasts, geologists, choirs, family groups, bird watchers, agricultural tours, yoga & wellness retreats and companies interested in technical visits such as geothermal energy.

Together with you we design customized group tours on a given theme and subject to your special interest, budget and needs.

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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP TOURS

GJ Travel- Guðmunður Jónasson Travel is a family-run, independent coach company and ground handler. We create unique tailor-made tours and vacations in Iceland for more than 90 years. Every year more than 500 groups experience Iceland with GJ Travel, many of them specially tailor-made for university and school groups, hiking clubs, photography enthusiasts, geologists, choirs, family groups, bird watchers, agricultural tours, yoga & wellness retreats and companies interested in technical visits such as geothermal energy. Together with you, we design customised group tours on a given theme and subject to your particular interest, budget and needs.

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Special interest tours offer you the opportunity of a specialized holiday to expand your mind, broaden your horizons, learn about other cultures and experience a specific activity that you have always dreamed of doing or you love so much. Special interest tours are built around your group’s theme, activity or ‘special interest’. These require an understanding of your group’s very particular needs.

Special interest tours are built on local knowledge and access to people with diverse expertise and skills. We can, therefore, serve those with specific interests such as:

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    • Nature, geography, geology, glaciers, northern lights & midnight sun
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    • Outdoor activities, hiking & walking, whale & bird watching
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    • Culture, art, craft & culinary
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    • Women travel, Spa/wellness & photography
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    • Agriculture, farming, horses & fishery
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    • Educational travel & study tours include geology, geography, Viking history, Icelandic sagas & literature, fishery, global warming, geothermal energy, and others.

    • International movies with film locations in Iceland, such as Game of Thrones, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Batman Begins, James Bond: Die Another Day & A View to Kill, Fast & Furious 8, Thor: The Dark World, Star Wars: The Awakens, Noah, and others.

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    • Icelandic music such as Björk, Of Monsters and Men, Ásgeir, Kaleo, Emiliana Torrini, Sigur Rós, Skálmöld, Ólafur Arnalds and Music videos shot in Iceland such as Justin Bieber, Dierks Bentley, Damien Rice, Zara Larsson, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol (Gerua song), Kenju Wu, Bon Iver, David Guetta, Take That, and others.

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  With a keen eye for detail, an understanding of your budget, and the willingness to seek out and share the hidden wonders of Iceland, GJ Travel’s customized special interest tours guarantee you and your group members a successful visit to Iceland.

   

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