About Getaway tours

About ten years ago we ran a fishing magazine in Denmark. One of our staff writers came back from a successful trip to Egypt’s Lake Nasser. The fishing was great and the whole package was even better – it was a real adventure and great value for money. So we got this little idea: Why not try to do a reader’s trip?

We announced the first reader’s trip the following fall. It was fully booked in no time and we had to follow up with two more trips that season – apparently our readers wanted to go fishing with us. And we sure wanted to go fishing with them. Not because we needed to arrange travel for a living – we were already in business and had plenty to do with the fishing magazine – but simply because it gave us great pleasure to do so.

A few seasons later we had more than a hundred clients in Egypt per season, and new destinations like British Columbia and Alaska were also catching on well.

Being dedicated fishermen ourselves, we have never tried anything else but giving sound and honest advice about the destinations we are offering. Combining that with attention to detail and respect for our clients hard earned spare time and money turned out to be a pretty good way to enter the fishing travel business.

So what started out as reader’s trips was suddenly growing bigger than the actual magazine. It was time to establish a full time fishing travel agency – hence GetAway Tours was born.

Today we are Scandinavia’s biggest fishing travel company. We run our own fishing camps in Greenland and are the European agent for several fishing operations. It all came from a pretty small idea to start with. But that little idea was the start of a great adventure!