Delano Live: “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”

Snapshots • Lifestyle • 12.06.2019 • Delano magazine

Photo: Patricia Pitsch/Maison Moderne

The panel at June’s Delano Live featured experts in travelling to those places around the world that are not on the agenda of most tour operators.

The Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track” was held at Knokke Out in the Rives de Clausen, 11 June 2019

Apoorva Prasad of “The Outdoor Journal”, Sher Houston and Thomas Flammant are seen during are the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Katia Ciesielska and Patrick Schomaker of Luxembourg Air Rescue

Gina Millington and Tony Kingston are seen attending the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Namkhai Narankhuu, Damien Gomes and Tuguldur Davaadorj

Joshua John Dhillon, Antoine Rech and Pol Schmid

Isabelle Demare, Javier Costales and Fernando Valenzuela

Sarah Battey, Juanping Li and Xueyang Wang

Justine Bousquet, Estelle Martin and Oriane Pawlisiak (from the Delano team)

Mark Stubbs (centre), Crystiina Avram (on right)

Delano’s Jess Bauldry speaks during the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Apoorva Prasad of “The Outdoor Journal” speaks during the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Attendees listen to panellists speak during the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Patrick Schomaker of Luxembourg Air Rescue speaks during the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Isabelle Demare is seen attending the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Attendees are seen during the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

The Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Joshua John Dhillon and Pol Schmit are seen attending the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

Sandro Pace-Bonello and Sarah Battey are seen attending the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track”, 11 June 2019

More than 150 people attended the Delano Live event “Adventure travel: off the beaten track” at Knokke Out in the Rives de Clausen on 11 June 2019

Photo: Patricia Pitsch/Maison Moderne

They shared unusual, exciting travel stories and tips on planning trips off the beaten track, and practical advice from professionals on insurance and repatriation coverage.

Our guests were:

Apoorva Prasad, an entrepreneur, passionate climber, snowboarder and adventure traveller who founded The Outdoor Journal, a content-driven booking platform and magazine for adventure junkies.
Patrick Schomaker, director of sales and marketing B2B at Luxembourg Air Rescue, the leading aeromedical provider in Europe. LAR teams have flown repatriation missions all over the world.

Prasad said his path towards adventure travel started when he saw Mt Everest for the first time, at age 4. He highlighted a recent offroading trip to Namibia, which included an episode getting stuck on the beach as the tide rolled in, and breathtaking video footage of cliff diving in Oman.

Schomaker gave some breathtaking figures (from UK insurers) on medical costs incurred abroad. The examples included a one night stay in an intensive care unit in the US (€5,700), a traveller who caught dengue fever in Indonesia (€45,000) and a jet-ski accident in Turkey that required surgery (€140,000).