History of Adventure360

2026: The Year of Adventure360

More young people are fitting travel into their lives at any stage. Student terms, annual leave-friendly adventures, and gap years.

It’s been an incredible 15 years, and we’re growing with our audience. Everything our travellers love about Gap 360, made even better. Same team, same passion, fresh new name and look. Welcome to Adventure360!

2024: We Joined the Intrax Family

Intrax are a California-based company with global roots, specialising in cultural exchanges and changing people’s lives through travel. They have multiple travel brands based all around the world. You may recognise a few names, like AmeriCamp!

2023: Antarctica Trip Launch

Travelling to all seven continents? Tick. 2023 was the year we branched out to Antarctica. Think once-in-a-lifetime expedition to the frozen south…

2022: Our Biggest Year, Ever

After two years stuck at home, everyone was ready to go and experience the world. Revenge travel was at an all-time high, and so were we.

2020: We Don’t Talk About This…

And we think you can guess why. 😷

2016: Real Gap Experience merges into Gap 360

Over time, our adventure travel brands became so aligned in their vision that we decided to merge Real Gap Experience into Gap 360. Two became one.

2015: We Hit 100,000 Trips Sold

Hitting 100,000 trips was a huge milestone for us in 2015, just over a decade on from when our founders first had the idea. We couldn’t be prouder of this one.

2014: Next Stop, Flights!

We started a joint partnership to form Flights360 to help our travellers book flights for their trips.

2011: Gap 360 Started

In 2011, we launched a new adventure travel brand: Gap 360. Our motto became: “See stuff, Do stuff, Have fun.” More destinations, more projects and more meaningful ways to inspire young people to take that gap year.

2008: We Hit 10,000 Trips Sold

Four years in, we’d sent 10,000 travellers all over the globe. And we were just getting started.

2006: Real Gap Experience Was Born

Real Gap Experience was our original adventure travel brand. We didn’t know it yet, but it would grow into the UK’s biggest gap year company at its peak.