Press & Recognition

Written about, quietly.

A small selection of features, awards, and editorial mentions from publications and bodies we admire.

In Print

Features & essays

2025

Condé Nast Traveller

Feature, May 2025

The new shape of an African journey

"A quiet studio in Kampala rewriting what a private safari can feel like — slower, deeper, almost literary."

2024

Financial Times — How To Spend It

Uganda, in private

"Imagine arranges the kind of access most operators promise and few deliver: a forest, a gorilla family, and the rare gift of silence afterwards."

2024

AFAR

Travel designers to know

"Their itineraries read like essays — every day a paragraph, every silence intentional."

2025

Travel + Leisure

A-List of African specialists

"For travellers who want the Pearl of Africa shown by someone who clearly loves it."

2024

Monocle

Small studios, large craft

"An East African house with the editorial discipline of a Milanese atelier."

2023

National Geographic Traveller

Beyond the great migration

"Imagine's Uganda is the antidote to the over-narrated safari — fewer vehicles, more wonder."

Recognition

Awards & memberships

2025

Top Travel Specialists, Africa

Condé Nast Traveller

2025

A-List Advisor, East Africa

Travel + Leisure

2024

WOW List — Uganda & Rwanda

Wendy Perrin

2024

Tour Operator of the Year, Bespoke

Uganda Tourism Board

Highly Commended

2023

Member

AFAR Travel Advisory Council

2022

Studio Member

African Travel & Tourism Association

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