Welcome to Globalrunners
We started Globalrunners in 2012 mainly to offer swedish speaking travellers our tours for XC skiers, runners, cyclists and trekkers. Thanks too Google translate also non-swedish speaking guests found our pages and we have welcomed guests from all over Europe, the U.S and Canada.
We hope you find our offers tempting and interesting. We do hope to see you, hopefully on one of our tours!
Combining the joy of physical activity with discovering new, interesting places is our philosophy. Experience exciting travel destinations in a small group of like-minded people and meet people who share your interests. Our destinations and events are carefully selected. We avoid over touristed places, prefer small scale accomodations and autentic experiences and inform all guests about the culture and the region in detial that they visit.
Every year we develop new trips for cross-country skiers, cyclists, hikers and runners. Some guests are elite, some are ultra-runners, most are happy athletes, some have never competed, trained on bikes or hiked before, and others give up running or cycling completely. We make sure everyone gets the most out of the entire trip. We'll definitely have fun together!
With an exciting journey ahead, training will be easier and you will feel more motivated. If you can run 3 miles today, with a few simple tips you can do a half marathon in six months. Many people think that most ski races are less demanding than the 90K Vasaloppet.
Join our tour to Italy and experience the most beautiful tracks in the lovely Dolomites!
At the end of January, Italy's equivalent to Vasaloppet is held every year. Globalrunners is proud to be official tour operator since many years back. This is our most popular tour with guests from many different countries.
Enjoy three regions around Sweden's largest lake. Culture and history, nice accommodations, fresh air, active vacation and great food.
A small step for humanity, but a big step for our company and perhaps for you
Globalrunners was in 2016 the first tour operator in Sweden offering train travel instead of flights on our trips to those who prefered a more sustainable journey. A few years later, we canceled all trips that could not be reached by train or bus, such as Cuba, Iceland, Nepal, Mongolia, Istanbul, India, and more. We put the responsibility on the customer to choose, fly or go by train. We saw a trend where more and more people took more responsibility for everone's futre.
Emissions of greenhouse gases affect the climate with worsening floods, forest fires, famine and extreme weather as a result. In 2021 we stopped offering flights completely. We book wonderful train journeys instead (and bus if the train does not go all the way forward as to Moena on the Marcialonga trip). If guests do not wish to go by train, they can arrange their own transportation to the destination.
After taking a clear stand for everyone's future, customers have booked our tours because they also want to travel in a more sustainable way. Everyone must act now. We want to be proud of our company and offer what is right based on knowledge. Globalrunners is in the forefront of tomorrow's travels and we hope other companies in the tourism industry will follow us and act. The transportation to the destination is by far the part of a tour that makes the greatest impact on the climate and by taking the train instead of plane, you save 80 % of your own emissions.