Cycle Tour Leader in Spain – Grasshopper Adventures

Grasshopper Adventures - Global Touring

At Global Touring, we embrace curiosity, authenticity, ownership and collaboration and love meeting new people, experiencing other cultures and celebrating our differences. We are looking for someone to join the team that aligns perfectly with our organisation vision and values, and has the energy and passion to bring it to life for our teams and our customers.  

Being a part of the Global Touring team means you will inspire travellers through life changing travel experiences. We have three dynamic brands – Grasshopper Adventures, Topdeck Travel & Back-Roads Touring.  Each brand caters to different customer segments in unique ways.   

Our newest brand – Grasshopper Adventures – has specialised in cycling and multi-active tours across Asia for the past 20 years and we are now launching a brand new product range for GHA in Europe.   To start with our destinations will be Portugal (Douro Valley), Spain (Costa Brava), Italy (Sicily) and Croatia (the Dalmatian Coast).  Over the coming years we plan to add more destinations. 

The role of a Grasshopper Adventures Tour Leader 

Our Tour Leaders are responsible for the day-to-day running of the tours on the roads, paths and trails of our wonderful destinations. 

This involves: 

• Leading a cycling group on pre-defined routes in a safe, inclusive and enjoyable manner. 
• Direct the activities of tour drivers, bike mechanics and/or assistant tour leaders. 
• Giving in-depth commentary relevant to the destination, the route, the experiences, the local life and everything you see along the way; 
• Managing all tour related paperwork and expenditure and completing the relevant accounting and administrative paperwork; 
• Leading all group activities and socialising with the group; 
• Interacting with various suppliers and accommodation providers on a daily basis; 
• Looking after the group safety and enjoyment and being the first point of contact in case of incidents or crisis. 
• Dealing with on-route bicycle mechanical issues to keep guests riding where possible
• Continually managing 'risk' during the days activities and adapting to conditions detrimental to group safety and enjoyment.

It is a big responsibility as you are directly responsible for the successful operation of the tour.   

Our Tour Leaders are at the heart of our product and personify what we want to achieve as a business.  

Our Tour Leaders: 

• Have an in-depth local knowledge of the place where you would lead tours and a genuine interest and passion for our destinations and have the ability to draw out the very best impromptu experiences that enhance the guests' journey. 
• Make safety a priority on a daily basis. 
• Are highly organised with the ability to plan ahead.
• Possess extremely developed problem solving skills.
• Demonstrate a professional attitude and behaviour at all time.
• Possess a high level of customer service and great people skills. 

The Season:

We will be operating in the cooler, quieter months of the years that should offer better riding conditions.  Tour Leaders will need to be available for some or all of the dates detailed below.

SPAIN
Apr 20, 2025, 
May 11, 2025, 
May 18, 2025, 
Jun 1, 2025, 
Sep 21, 2025, 
Sep 28, 2025, 
Oct 5, 2025

Please indicate in your application which destination and dates you would be available for a six-day tour.

Interviews will be held in our London offices in early December 2024 and candidates will be asked to join in person.  Successful candidates will all need to attend a training tour in early February, this is likely to be in Spain.  Finally prospective candidates for the other destinations (i.e. not Spain) will need to undertake recce tours in their destinations scheduled across late February to late March.  Contracted tour leaders will need to be able to undertake those commitments.

The deadline for application submission is 22nd November 2024

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you.