Tour Leader, Central Asia

Requisition ID: 3161

Department: Tourism and Hospitality

Work Type: On the road

Application Close Date: 04th November 2025

At Intrepid Travel we exist to inspire, create, share and lead the best travel experiences ever. More than 35 years later, we’re proud to be a certified B Corp with hundreds of trips in over 100 countries.

The world needs more Intrepid people:

We’re excited to expand and open a local office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan – and you can be a part of this fantastic team!

Do you love Central Asia and sharing it with others? We are currently recruiting freelance Tour Leaders to operate our exciting Intrepid tours across Central Asia including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

As a Tour Leader with Intrepid you get the opportunity to share your country and culture with travellers from all over the world and create unforgettable moments they’ll treasure for a lifetime!

As a Tour Leader with us you will:

Be the face of Intrepid and provide exceptional customer service
Host, lead and execute tours to budget, following the itinerary and ensuring the overall successful operation of each trip
Ensure the safety and well-being of your travellers, assisting with any difficult situations that may arise.
Tell stories, deliver travel advice and organise your customers’ experience
Reconfirming suppliers, hotels, activities and doing administration along the way

To be considered you must have:

Previous Tour Guiding/Leading experience across any or all of the Central Asian countries
Full rights to work across the region, with a Tourist Guide license
Passionate for travel in the Intrepid style and sharing your region with our travellers
Great availability during our peak seasons to lead our trips
Good communication skills in English and local languages, with the ability to communicate with people from varied cultures and backgrounds
Basic computer skills including email, word and excel

You’ll also have amazing customer service and organizational skills, with some experience in budgeting.

What you need to know:

This is a freelance contract position
With extended hours, lots of walking and activities, and engaging with travellers, it’s important that you are prepared both mentally and physically for the challenge!
You’ll need the ability to travel and spend time away from home, as our leaders often travel for extensive periods at a time and some tours can span up to four weeks.

Our people reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities we visit:
Intrepid is made up of 58 nationalities across 46 countries, and we recognise that diversity makes us a stronger business. We support a culture where people can be themselves and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Including First Nations People, LGBTQI+ people, those living with a disability, or from disadvantaged backgrounds, and all people from different ethnicities, races, and religions.

For our Tour Leaders, the work perks may vary from country to country, but some of the work perks we offer include:

Diverse departures through the year to lead! Including hiking or biking adventures, festival, family, premium and foodie trips
Travel to where the trip starts (and home again) is included and covered by us
Some meals and all accommodation included (often where the guests are staying, such as hotels, camping, homestays etc)
Access to learning and development programs, e-learning and comprehensive tour leader training before you even start
Internal career opportunities to further your your career in travel and beyond
Amazing travel discounts for you to experience Intrepid as a passenger
Recognition and celebration with awards nights and the chance for our top performers to travel to our yearly Global Summit!
Opportunity to support not-for-profit Intrepid Foundations projects

We are Real. Together. Ambitious. Impactful. These are our values and to us they're more than just words, they are the pillars of our success and every day it's our people and the work they do that bring them to life.

At Intrepid ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion is an important part of our recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit your application, please email careersupport@intrepidtravel.com with your name, location, and the accommodations you need, we will then be in touch to support your application.

Apply now »