G Adventures reveals 2020 adventure travel hotspots

Elsewhere, G has recorded a 33% increase in travellers heading to Madagascar over the past three years. The island nation, off the south east coast of Africa, is renowned for its most famous inhabitants – the black and white bushy tailed lemur, which is native only to Madagascar.

Additionally, G’s non-profit partner Planeterra has launched a new community tourism project in Madagascar, aiming to reforest habitats around the community of Ranohira in an effect to support and boost biodiversity.

Sri Lanka, Ireland, Nicaragua, Brazil, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Laos, Japan, South Africa and Greenland round out G’s top 12.

G founder Bruce Poon Tip said: “In a world that’s becoming increasingly divided, travel can be a vehicle and force for good to unite us as a global community.

“As pioneers of community tourism, our mission is to change people’s lives through travel, going beyond the lives of our travellers to the locals we visit, particularly people who are marginalised.

“When we return from a transformative travel experience, we can then bring back what we learnt to make a difference in our own communities, that’s what we call the ripple effect.”