About Offside Travel

Offside Travel is a Swedish Tour Operator. Our tours will take you off the beaten track hence the name Offside Travel. With us you can explore paradise beaches in the Philippines, discover the temples of Angkor or go into the wilderness north of the polar circle. Travelling with us means that the adventure never is far away.

We always do our best to support the local economies at our destinations, we do so by staying in hotels and guesthouses owned by local people, and trying out local restaurants. All the tours are conducted in small groups, which means a low impact on the environment at the same time as it is a fun and flexible way to travel. Offside Travel is a member the Swedish Eco Tourism Association and of Ecpat, a non-profit organisation that works against sexual abuse of children and child prostitution. The company is owned and managed by Kajsa Gustafsson and Ulrika Svensson.

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A few words about us working at Offside Travel

Kajsa Gustafsson grew up in Lapland and she loves the Swedish mountains and down hill skiing. She is a political scientist with a great interest in psychology. Kajsa has made many backpacking tours in Asia and Europe and some shorter trips to Africa. Kajsa has snorkelled with sharks but still hasn't had the opportunity to go scuba diving with them. She also likes to go fishing in the Swedish wilderness (preferably with no bears in sight). Kajsa is a part owner of Offside Travel AB.

Ulrika Svensson is a business economist who has also studied tourism. She has done a great deal of longer tours with her backpack as a close companion. Ulrika has also worked and studied in a number of countries. Every year she goes to Friuli in Italy to hike and cycle in the mountains. Her favourite destination in Asia is the Philippines, a country she always dreams herself back to since the first tour of the country in 1997. Ulrika has a bad sense of directions, which has let her explore many places no other travellers have seen. Ulrika is a part owner of Offside Travel AB.

Lena Pettersson A Swedish city girl who moved to the northern part of Norway to be close to the sea and the nature. Lena is a marine biologist major in marine reserves and tourism effects on wildlife. She has a great experience guiding Orca, whale and bird watching safaris in Lofoten. Lena needs just a little bit of sea breeze to be happy. Motto: A positive attitude will take you a long way!
Lena is our tour leader on our killer whale tours.

Edi Gabrielli Edi Gabrielli is a MTB instructor and the founder and president of the “Bike Adventure Sportive Association”. In 1998 Edi went on his first biking holiday in Africa, or more exactly South Africa, eversince he has returned and made many solo scouting bike trips all over this great continent. In 2002 he started to guide biking tours, and since then he has taken bikers to: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and Mozambique. Before ”migrating” to Africa, Edi used to bike in Finland, Norway and Sweden. During our bike tours to Africa we will be accompanied by Edi or one of his local collaborators. When Edi is not biking in Africa or other exciting places, he lives in San Daniele, Italy.

Barbro Svensson
Barbro is a dive instructor and a teacher who nowadays lives in Dalarna, in the northern part of Sweden, where she was born. During the years she has done many longer and shorter trips around the globe. Barbro visited the Philippines the first time in 1996 when she was conducting research for an exhibition about Philippine women and their development of textile culture. Barbo started to dive 1980 and has been educating many new divers since then. The last three winters she has been working as a dive instructor and guide on Panglao island outside Bohol. To meet people, everyday life and culture and experience nature above and under sea level are important ingredients in Barbro’s life.

Arnold Godfrey Moshi Arnold was born and raised in Moshi at the foot of Kilimanjaro and in Marangu Village on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. He is a certified mountain guide and an experienced tour leader as well as an expert on the northern parts of Tanzania. During the last 10 years he has been guiding and arranging tours in Tanzania. Arnold’s mother tongue is Chagga (one of 120 local languages of Tanzania) but he’s also fluent in Swahili and English. When he’s not travelling and guiding tours he spend he’s time with he’s family in Arusha. Arnold has he own blogg which you can find here.