Lindblad Expeditions did not enter the expedition cruise market. It created it. On January 23, 1966, Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica, chartering an Argentine naval supply ship to carry 57 passengers to the Antarctic Peninsula from Ushuaia...

Swan Hellenic invented cultural expedition cruising. Not approximately, not arguably: in 1954, the company’s co-founder Henry Swan was approached by the Hellenic Society at London University to organise a scholarly tour of ancient Greece, and he chartered a ship...