Our story · Since 2008
We bring people to places worth the journey.
We started by showing travellers a country the world overlooks — Lebanon. Today we help you plan and take personal trips across six continents, at every budget.
It began with a country most people skip
We were founded in 2008. Not as an app, and not as a big-box agency — but as a specialist doing one thing unusually well: bringing travellers, originally from China, to Lebanon. Our founder had spent years showing people a place that almost no guidebook does justice: Roman temples bigger than anything left in Rome, a city lived in for seven thousand years, some of the best food on earth, coast and cedar mountains within a single day's drive.
The frustration that started everything was simple. Lebanon isn't under-visited because it isn't worth visiting — it's under-visited because the travellers who would love it never quite find their way there. We exist to close that gap: to get the right people to the right places, and to make the journey feel like it was arranged by someone who already knows the ground.
From Lebanon to the world
What we learned in Lebanon — that a place opens up when you arrive with someone who truly knows it — turned out to travel well. Today we cover 40+ countries and 100+ cities across six continents, and we run tours in both directions: bringing the world to Lebanon, and bringing travellers from Lebanon and beyond out to the places they've always meant to see.
What you can do with EME
A trip that feels like yours
Plan it free, make it personal, and travel with people who know the places.
Plan
Build your days, drag and drop
Lay out each day on a real timeline — drag places into order and we retime the whole day, factoring in how long it takes to get between stops.
Free to start, no signup — most planners lock this behind an account.
Day 2 · Brussels
3 stops · 5h09:00Grand-Place🏛️ history
11:30Atomium🏗️ architecture
14:00Maison Dandoy — waffles🍽️ food
Personalize
Shaped around what you love
Tell us your taste — history, food, the outdoors — and we surface destinations that fit, instead of the same top-ten everyone sees.
Inclusive by default: LGBTQ+-friendly, accessible, and halal/kosher-aware guidance.
Your taste
History & CultureFood & GastronomyNature & OutdoorsArchitecture
We suggest
Ghent
Bruges
Dinant
Explore
Worldwide, at every budget
40+ countries · 6 continents
🇧🇪 Belgium🇱🇧 Lebanon🇯🇵 Japan🇲🇦 Morocco🇵🇪 Peru🇮🇹 Italy
Free builderplan it yourself
Premium, humandesigned for you
Make it yours
Add notes and personal touches
15:30Parc du Cinquantenaire🌿 nature
📝 Let's grab ice cream before going here 🍦
What we believe
Personal, not packaged-off-a-shelf
Every traveller is different, so every trip should be. Whether you plan it yourself or hand it to us, the route bends around what you love — not the other way round.
Places worth the journey
We lead with the rewarding and the under-visited — countries that repay the traveller who arrives with someone who genuinely knows them. It started with Lebanon; it now spans six continents.
Sustainable, accessible, inclusive
Not badges bolted on at the end. We document step-free routes and sensory-friendly venues, flag honest safety guidance, and design realistic days that respect the places we visit and the people who live there.
Three ways to travel with us
We're not only an app and not only a tour operator — we sit on the continuum between them, so you can meet us at whatever level suits the trip.
Plan it yourself
Free itinerary builder
Pick your interests and drag-and-drop a multi-country trip across 40+ countries. Feasibility checks keep it realistic. No account required, no fee.
Explore destinationsLet us tailor it
Recommendations & guidance
Tell us your taste and constraints and we surface the routes, cities and stops that fit — the parts that are hard to find when you don't already know a place.
See how it worksHand it to us
Guided packages
Small-group and private trips, fully handled — hotels, transport, transfers and a local guide — run by a team that has operated on the ground for years. This is where we began.
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About us — your questions
- Who are we?
- We're a travel company founded in 2008. We began as a specialist bringing travellers — originally from China — to Lebanon, and have grown into a full-spectrum operator that helps people plan and take personal trips across 40+ countries. Our operating entity is EME International SARL, a Lebanese-registered tour operator.
- Why did we start with Lebanon?
- Lebanon is one of the most rewarding countries in the Mediterranean and one of the most under-visited — Roman temples larger than anything left in Rome, cities lived in for seven thousand years, world-class food, coast and cedar mountains within a day's drive. Our founder spent years showing people that Lebanon, and the whole company grew out of fixing its distribution problem: getting the travellers who'd love it to actually go.
- Are we a travel agency, or an app?
- Neither, exactly — it sits on the continuum between the two. You can self-plan a trip for free like an online travel platform, or hand the whole thing to us like a traditional tour operator, or anything in between. The idea is to bring people to places at every budget, in whichever way suits them.
- Where can we take you?
- 40+ countries and 100+ cities across six continents — from Lebanon and the wider Levant to Europe, Türkiye, Morocco, China, Japan, Argentina, Australia and beyond. The free builder covers destinations you can realistically travel between; fully guided packages cover the routes we run on the ground.
- How much does it cost to plan a trip?
- Building and planning a trip with the itinerary builder is free — no subscription, no hidden fees. Tailored recommendations and fully guided packages are priced per trip, and you always see a clear quote before committing to anything.
- Do we really design around accessibility and inclusion?
- Yes, and it's built in rather than added on. We document wheelchair access, step-free routes and sensory-friendly venues, highlight LGBTQ+-welcoming places with honest legal-safety guidance, and cater to specific needs — from halal dining to Mandarin-friendly stops — so travellers can go as their whole selves.
Start with a place worth the journey
Build a trip for free, or let us take the whole thing off your hands.