About us

Jon Baines Tours is a specialist travel company curating medical, professional non-medical, and cultural study tours and cruises to destinations around the world.

Our wonderful team is our engine, fuel and spark. We're a tight-knit, family-owned team that combine a love of travel and life with an extraordinary range of skills and experience in our London and Melbourne offices. The co-owners, Jon and Karen, are British and Australian respectively, hence such a global presence for a boutique company. The advantage to this is local attention and knowledge with a global reach, as well as someone being on call 24/7.

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UK Office

London

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Benvon Crumpler
Marketing Director
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Catherine Hinam
Operations Manager
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Emma Tracey
Marketing Manager
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Penny Hardcastle
Operations Executive
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Neeta Molloy
Operations and Marketing
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Ludmila Kasimierski
Product
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Lyndal Montgomery
Product
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Lyn Barritt
Accounts
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Australia Office

Melbourne

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Jon Baines
Director
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Karen Ginnane
Director
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Olivia Do
Operations Executive
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Xianxian Bai
Finance
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Doing our bit

Local projects

We try to include visits to local community projects on our tours. These visits shine a light on the issues faced by communities, and the innovative solutions practiced. We hope our visits can help raise the profile of these projects, and we commit to providing a donation after each visit.

Local projects we support
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Testimonials

What people say about us

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As usual, (tour leader) David Shannon did a great job as tour leader – kept us well informed of each day’s activities and spoke well at the professional visits. (National guide) Coco was a fabulous, caring and interesting guide – well informed and very organised.

Ana M
Optometry in Japan
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19 – 31 March 2023
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Good spread of visits from public hospital, small private hospital in Kathmandu and district hospital in Bhutan. Enjoyed Himalayan Rescue talks very much also. Bhutan guides brilliant – Tulsi and Robin very informative. Dipesh very good although sometimes not loud enough. (Tour manager) Otto was excellent organiser, very calm under pressure, a pleasure to have guiding us. (Tour leader) Richard – always lively, positive energy in the group, added to group cohesion.

Tarsha B
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Nepal and Bhutan
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10 – 21 March 2023
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Personally, I think this was one of the best tours I have been on, although this was one of few group tours arranged for me. I loved the arrangements, choices of places to visit and the unity amongst group members. If I were to go on another arranged tour, my first choice would be Jon Baines Tours for variety of experiences and value for money.

Shirley F
Medicine in South Africa
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1 – 13 April 2024
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FAQs

If you have some questions or queries you'd like an answer to quickly, pop over to our FAQs to find the most commonly asked questions about our tours.

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Work with us

If you are a professional with a passion for travel, or a destination management company with a unique offer, get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.

We are constantly developing our tour packages. If you have something different to offer, we'd love to hear from you.

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Careers

No vacancies at the moment
We unfortunately don't have any job openings just now, but we very much welcome hearing from potential new team members and collaborators. If you're passionate about travel and would like to join us, please send us an email with a cover letter and your CV and we will be in touch.
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