Why with PANDA

China-based Tour Operator
China is a vast country with diversified culture and people. We were born in this mysterious country and know her very well. We know what's the highlight of the culture and history, we know the people in each place, more importantly, we know how to meet your traveling demand and make your trip as pleasant and comfortable as possible. We were born in China, while we are westernized. Organizing your China tour by a China-based tour operator will make your trip a special and unforgettable experience.

Garanteed Departures with One person
We understand how you are dissappointed when your trip is cancelled. PANDA offers Garanteed Departures of each trip in each month. If you book a Garanteed Departures trip, and complete full payment within 49 days before departure, your trip will definitely run with even one person booking.

Small Group
When you join a PANDA adventures tour, you travel with a maximum of just 12 fellow travellers. For other styles of trips with PANDA, a maximum of 16 travellers is guaranteed. This is small enough to avoid making a negative impact on the places you go and the people you meet, but large enough to have a good time with other travellers from all corners of the world. Furthermore, PANDA leaders and local guides can look after all of you carefully.

Unbeatable Value for Money
Since we are China-based operator, we can reduce your tour cost dramatically, meanwhile guarantee the service quality. We have established business relations with over 50 local operators in China, and we have the possible buying power. We are a ground service operator, not just a wholesaler or middleman who has no control of the cost. We have more flexibility to change the itinerary or add optional activity upon your request. We want to help you achieve your traveling dream to China by every means.

Local Leaders and Guides
By working with a team of local Chinese leaders, we can help you get inside a destination. These leaders speak the language, can read the menus, understand the day to day world around them, offer insights into the history and culture, and are passionate about China. They can also help deal with local groups, ensuring we celebrate our differences with respect, understanding and mutual benefits. Providing possibilities for you to enjoy special moments is their secret.

Stress Free Travel
At PANDA, we also focus on taking the hassles and tedium out of travelling for you, so you can focus on the scenes around you. All your accommodation and transportation is taken care of. The hotels in the towns and cities are well located, have private facilities, so as to explore the authentic local life easily. Private buses are used on some longer road journeys to guarantee our freedom to explore and to increase your comfort. Flexible itinerary will leave you more funs in certain places.

Respect Environment
A major focus of our missions is setting benchmarks in responsible tourism. We have strict operational guidelines for our leaders, local guides and staff to follow. We also provide you with a pre-departure booklet, which details ways you can help. We are actively involved in a number of small specific projects in many regions around the country. In many ways, our role in helping people celebrate and learn about wilderness and wildlife may be the most powerful contribution we make.

Cultural Sensitivity
Our aim is to respect the people we meet and ensure our interaction is mutually beneficial. The cornerstone of this policy is local employment and engaging small local businesses. By employing leaders born in the region we not only provide employment but we have dramatically increased opportunities to get beyond the guide books. Having a leader who speaks the language unlocks many of the mysteries travellers discover. It opens the way for more open communication and the chance for some real understanding. By staying as guests in tribal villages or in small family-run accommodation, we can ensure economic benefits filter down to the families that most need it, rather than to huge multinational chains.

Quality
A new operator, but PANDA focuses on the service quality of offering unique experiences without making them endurance tests. Accommodation, transport and equipment are chosen with this in mind. Importantly, PANDA is an operator, not just a middleman or web portal that has no control over the quality of its offerings. With client feedback from every tour and close communication with our local offices, we constantly monitor the quality of our operations and adopt positive innovations.

Safety
We have constantly refined our operational procedures and improved our approach to your safety and security. Having local offices and ground staff means that our established emergency procedures are fast and effective. Our leaders are all trained in first aid and crisis management, so if something does go wrong, you are in good hands. Prevention is the key though, so things like food preparation and hygiene are given top priority. Safety equipment is also fundamental. We carry first aid kits on all tours, and, on high-altitude tours in Tibet, we always carry Portable Altitude Chambers in case of altitude sickness.

Innovation
We take our position as the leader in China travel service seriously. We love pioneering new routes and destinations, but we also accept that with leadership comes increased responsibility. We want to pioneer an age of ethical tourism by employing local leaders, celebrating the biological and cultural diversity of our world and protecting them for the future. We want to ensure tourism benefits local communities, rather than exploiting them. We want to champion the advantages of special holidays over mainstream mass tourism.