JAMES PAPAGNO

CHIEF EXPLORIST / FOUNDER

From an early age, I was always ready to travel. At 18, I grabbed my surfboard and traveled to Eleuthera Island in The Bahamas to explore, surf, and to dive the many beautiful reefs - and I never looked back. It was an amazing experience and the genesis to what would a become a life long passionate pursuit of discovery and exploration. You could say I eventually became a pioneer in the surf travel business during the 90s. Never did I realize that creating this business would later become a main source of tourism revenue for countries like Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua.

I eventually expanded into adventure and eco travel during the late 90s, marketing my firm, Adventure Expeditions. We were a small tour wholesaler based in Boca Raton, Florida specializing in wholesale travel to Central and South America. We later expanded our travel offerings to feature Africa and Asia.

Recently, I've taken on the challenge of rebuilding and expanding our agency that focuses on experiential travel. Journey Earth Travel is a specialized host agency empowering our niche travel advisors with new and exciting tools, specialized websites, and benefits beyond what other vanilla host agencies offer. My story is simply the meaning behind our branded message: Explore Boldly! Personally and professionally, I continue to embrace the passion of travel. I continually search the globe for amazing places and experiences and hope that we can design your next vacation and create memories that last a lifetime. View some of my Videos here

A FEW OF JAMES’ TRAVEL EXPERIENCES