Limelight Arts Travel
Small group journeys | Gain Knowledge & Inspiration | Slow down & see more
Welcome to Limelight Arts Travel. We create expert-led, small group journeys exploring fine art, history and the performing arts in Australia and abroad. We bring together genuine academic expertise, decades of experience organising special-interest travel and the renowned quality and connoisseurship of Limelight, for 45 years Australia's authoritative journal of classical music, culture and the performing arts.
Featured Tours
Kyoto & Tokyo:
A Tale of Two Cities
Dates: 11-23 November 2024
Tour Leader: Dr Kathleen Olive
Price: $11,450pp twinshare
Status: Places available
Unpack your bags for long stays in two of Japan’s most emblematic cities on our popular tour, in the capital of traditional culture in Kyoto and the fast-paced contemporary metropolis of Tokyo.
Essential
Sicily
Dates: 27 October - 10 November 2024
Tour Leader: Dr Kathryn Welch
Price: $10,950pp twinshare
Status: On request
Survey Sicily’s breathtaking heritage and culture, exploring Greek temples, glittering medieval mosaics, exuberant baroque architecture and magnificent landscapes.
ATHENS
IN DEPTH
Dates: 08 – 19 January 2025
Tour Leader: Dr Estelle Lazer
Price: $8,750pp twinshare
Status: Places available
Enjoy a long-stay tour in Athens in the low season, and explore its 3,000-year patrimony of ancient Greek, Byzantine and Ottoman sites.
Limelight Arts Traveller
As anyone who has travelled will know, half the pleasure is in the anticipation – dreaming, planning and learning about the destination. As well as touring, Limelight Arts Travel offers online lectures, podcasts, blog articles and videos exploring history, art and culture around the world. Our online lecture programs let you experience the world of Limelight Arts Travel without leaving your lounge room. Our podcasts, blogs and short videos explore the destinations and topics that our tour leaders know and love. They are a great way to get to know our expert tour leaders and to find out what we’re all about. You’ll find all of our content on our Arts Traveller page.
Featured
PODCAST:
A Closer Look
In this podcast series our experts guide you through the process of looking at a work of art in context, revealing the hidden details and stories that lie behind the masterpiece.
Destination Insights:
on japan’s art islands
Japan’s celebrated ‘art islands’ of the Seto Inland Sea are routinely spoken about as one of the world’s most exciting destinations for site-specific contemporary art and architecture. What makes them so special?
MUSIC MATTERS:
Mahler in Vienna
Everyone knows Gustav Mahler was a musical revolutionary. However, it was for quite different reasons that the composer was known during his time in Vienna. In this article, Clive Paget discusses Mahler’s time in Vienna.
About Us
Building on Limelight’s reputation for accessible, intelligent and independent arts journalism, Limelight Arts Travel provides travellers with a strong interest in history and the arts with unique, engaging and thoroughly rewarding small group journeys.
We bring together Limelight magazine’s deep knowledge of the arts scene in Australia and around the world with some of Australia’s most experienced planners and leaders of cultural travel, who bring decades of experience to creating unique itineraries.
Fitness on Tour
Travel always requires a degree of physical fitness and mental stamina. To help you decide if a tour is right for you, we’ve given them fitness ratings:
Moderate
Above Moderate
Challenging
You can view our fitness ratings here in our FAQ. Should you have any concerns, please get in touch with us.
Responsible Tourism
Travel is an intensive activity, but it also provides a livelihood for almost 1 in 10 people globally. Our short term goal is to make our Australian operations carbon neutral by 2025. At the same time, we will undertake the first stages of reducing the footprint of our tours and the scope three emissions they entail.
We’ll keep you informed of our roadmap to achieving these goals and the challenges on the way in a dedicated blog in Limelight Arts Traveller.
Our Travel Partner
Limelight Arts Travel is pleased to partner with Mary Rossi Travel, one of Australia’s most recognised luxury travel agents.
You can read more about these arrangements here.