Greg Salmon

London Office

My childhood was modest when it came to travel. The annual summer holiday usually consisted of taking a campervan down to Newquay or driving to a holiday park in France, which was interspersed with annual rugby tours to Europe at Easter. Since then, I have been lucky enough to travel to many far-flung destinations, seeking out new places and experiences on every trip.

In my teens I travelled to Canada to visit my uncle Tim, a very well-travelled man with many interesting stories about his global ventures. This, my first long haul trip, was when the travel bug first bit me! Subsequently, I started planning trips with friends to all over continental Europe, long weekends in Poland, getaways to the Italian Riviera and so on.

My first big excursion after Canada was volunteering for a month at an orphanage in Sri Lanka which furthered my fascination with exploring the world, which also made me realise quite how easy it is to spend substantial amounts of time abroad.

After 3 years at university, my girlfriend and I started planning our world tour! Two years later, I have travelled the USA extensively, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, South Africa, Dubai, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Nepal and India! I’ve been on safari, scuba-dived The Great Barrier Reef, been up the tallest building in the world, sky-dived over Queenstown and seen a plethora of natural wonders such as Mount Everest, The Grand Canyon and Halong Bay… The list goes on!

One of the amazing things about working at Scott Dunn is that there is a big emphasis on consultants having first-hand knowledge of their specialised area which means that we are sent away on familiarisation trips and there are also many incentives to travel in our spare time which keeps us motivated and full of rich information about travel. I truly believe that this level of knowledge is vital to assuring we can give the best advice to our guests and I take great joy in utilising this to help create some unforgettable tailor-made itineraries.

My blogs

Glamping in North America: Pitching up in Zion

Winter Wonderland in the Wild West

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Travel nuggets

Live like a local - Occasionally you will pick up a gem that will stick with you for life! Eating curry with your hands, using a moped to whizz around car-filled cities or even just learning to sit back and relax when the sun comes out!
Go, just go! – The majority of my trips were booked on a whim and I have yet to regret a single one of those decisions. Travel is wise investment in a bank of valuable memories, so, in my eyes, it’s not even a financial risk!
"The mountains are calling and I must go" - Everywhere I go I find myself gravitating towards highlands. The temperature changes, flat land becomes warped, highways turn into barren roads and you see hordes of people doing weird and wonderful activities.