Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Lara Vancans, vice president-global sales for A&K Sanctuary, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report at last month’s Abercrombie & Kent 100 Club for top-selling advisors in Chicago about what’s new and what’s in the pipeline for this luxury boutique adventure operator now fully a unit A&K. Vancans tells us about the A&K Sanctuary’s new river cruise ships on the Nile in Egypt and on the Amazon in Peru. She also details the newest lodges in some of the most exotic and desirable regions of Africa, including Kitirua Plains Lodge in Kenya (debuting June 1) and the already open Baines' Lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta and Gorilla Forest Lodge in Uganda's Bwindi National Park. For more information, visit www.abercrombiekent.com.
All our Insider Travel Report video interviews are archived and available on our Youtube channel (youtube.com/insidertravelreport), and as podcasts with the same title on: Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Podchaser, TuneIn + Alexa, Podbean, iHeartRadio, Google, Amazon Music/Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and iTunes Apple Podcasts, which supports Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro and Castbox.
Lara Vancans, vice president-global sales for A&K Sanctuary, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report at last month’s Abercrombie & Kent 100 Club for top-selling advisors in Chicago about what’s new and what’s in the pipeline for this luxury boutique adventure operator now fully a unit A&K. Vancans tells us about the A&K Sanctuary’s new river cruise ships on the Nile in Egypt and on the Amazon in Peru. She also details the newest lodges in some of the most exotic and desirable regions of Africa, including Kitirua Plains Lodge in Kenya (debuting June 1) and the already open Baines' Lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta and Gorilla Forest Lodge in Uganda's Bwindi National Park. For more information, visit www.abercrombiekent.com.
All our Insider Travel Report video interviews are archived and available on our Youtube channel (youtube.com/insidertravelreport), and as podcasts with the same title on: Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Podchaser, TuneIn + Alexa, Podbean, iHeartRadio, Google, Amazon Music/Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and iTunes Apple Podcasts, which supports Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro and Castbox.
