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Top 25 Safari tour operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 9,100 safari tour operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 65,891 professional contacts across them, including 11,704 with verified work emails. South Africa is the largest market and Nairobi the largest hub.
This list covers safari tour operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for safari tour operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest safari tour operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,480 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The international tour operator ANEX Tour was founded in 1996 with the goal of providing "affordable holidays with quality for everyone." ANEX Tour, which has been one of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,304 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sarova Hotels is a leading group in the hospitality business running hotels, resorts and game lodges in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 982 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a world leading conservation and hospitality company, we are the proud custodians of our planet's most significant wild places, each chosen to be part of our Collection for a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 853 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Abercrombie & Kent was founded in 1962, when Geoffrey Kent and his parents pioneered the first modern luxury safari, a bespoke mobile camp unprecedented in its sophistication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 786 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Travel made real For more than thirty years, EXO Travel has been expanding horizons and creating lasting impacts through travel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 737 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Collette, we’ve been guided travel experts for nearly 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 706 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are travel experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 588 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 452 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our collection of lodges and camps, across five countries in Africa, encapsulate the very best of luxury travel, and celebrate the unique natural and cultural heritage of their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 436 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Join us on an unforgettable journey into the heart of East Africa's wilderness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Think Travel!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 359 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Albatros Travel offers unique and adventurous tours to some of the most exciting corners of the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At CHUKKA, we are more than a tour company; we are passionate locals crafting unforgettable adventures that resonate with the spirit of the Caribbean.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 352 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the worlds leading and most-awarded tour brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En NUBA, nos hemos propuesto reinventar el concepto de viajar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vallarta Adventures is Mexico´s premier adventure company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At British Airways Holidays our customers are at the heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De andere manier van reizen’ van Djoser is er voor iedereen die veel individuele vrijheid wil combineren met het gemak van een groepsreis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For one person it’s seeing a tiger in the wild for the first time, or walking along the sparkling Amalfi Coast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Escape to the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens for the only walking safari in Northeast Florida.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1995, Discovery is a DMC that focus on creating novel adventure, developing innovative eco-tourism programs and incentives with a belief in interaction, learning…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ontdek onze natuur en prikkel al je zintuigen tijdens een van de indrukwekkende safari’s bij Beekse Bergen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “African Bush Camps is a small and independently owned African-based company run by one of Africa’s top Safari guides Beks Ndlovu.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Awasi is a collection of five low-impact Relais & Châteaux lodges in South America’s most iconic destinations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Safarilink is Kenya's premier safari airline with a network of connecting domestic scheduled services to all the best safari destinations within Kenya and across the border into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: safari tour operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names safari tour operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of safari tour operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name safari tour operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Safari tour operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among safari tour operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for safari tour operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “safari tour operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names safari tour operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among safari tour operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 11,704 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Safari tour operators by location
37 lists · largest firstEvery Safari tour operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Safari tour operators based in South Africa859
- Safari tour operators based in Kenya742
- Safari tour operators based in India740
- Safari tour operators based in Tanzania680
- Safari tour operators based in the United States616
- Safari tour operators based in Uganda373
- Safari tour operators based in the United Kingdom318
- Safari tour operators based in Brazil164
- Safari tour operators based in Australia163
- Safari tour operators based in Germany158
- Safari tour operators based in Italy147
- Safari tour operators based in the United Arab Emirates134
- Safari tour operators based in France125
- Safari tour operators based in Spain125
- Safari tour operators based in the Netherlands125
- Safari tour operators based in Canada81
- Safari tour operators based in Zimbabwe78
- Safari tour operators based in Botswana75
- Safari tour operators based in Namibia75
- Safari tour operators based in Sri Lanka72
- Safari tour operators based in Chile58
- Safari tour operators based in Switzerland55
- Safari tour operators based in Argentina45
- Safari tour operators based in New Zealand41
- Safari tour operators based in Belgium34
- Safari tour operators based in Denmark32
- Safari tour operators based in Poland32
- Safari tour operators based in Sweden31
- Safari tour operators based in Ecuador26
Cities
- Safari tour operators based in Arusha, Tanzania306
- Safari tour operators based in Cape Town, South Africa268
- Safari tour operators based in Kampala, Uganda222
- Safari tour operators based in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania89
- Safari tour operators based in Johannesburg, South Africa87
- Safari tour operators based in New Delhi, India79
- Safari tour operators based in Mumbai, India56
- Safari tour operators based in Hoedspruit, South Africa42
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names safari tour operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many safari tour operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 9,100 safari tour operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Anex Tour, headquartered in Antalya, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most safari tour operators?
South Africa leads with 859 companies, followed by Kenya (742) and India (740). Every safari tour operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most safari tour operators?
Nairobi leads with 556 headquartered companies, followed by Arusha (309) and Cape Town (270).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 11,704 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 9,100 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.