Meet the Journey Beyond Travel
Morocco Team
Journey Beyond Travel is a family-owned and -operated tour company that arranges tailored trips full of meaningful cross-cultural experiences and in-depth personal encounters. We gear each trip to your personal interests and are vested to ensure you have an authentic, high-quality, and rewarding adventure. Our crew is made up of local staff and coordinators alongside independent city guides and drivers who have been with us for over a decade. We are proud to have an expert-led team of professionals that is the best in the country!
Lucas is the Owner & Director of Journey Beyond Travel. He moved to Morocco in 2009 and is considered as one of the most prolific Morocco travel experts. He is the author and main photographer for the Moon Guidebooks series for Morocco. Lucas is your first point of contact for all tours in Morocco. He spends his free time traveling across Morocco, meeting our guides, drivers and other partners. Over the course of over 15 years, he has developed relationships around the country that our travelers can benefit from.
He has also written and photographed Grand European Journeys and Seville, Granada, and Andalusia for Moon Travel Guides as well as edited the first ever publication for Journey Beyond Travel Publications: Our Morocco.
Lucas has appeared on numerous podcasts and radio shows around the world, as well as penned hundreds or articles for different magazines and outlets. You can read more about Lucas’s publications and appearances on his website: http://www.lucasmpeters.com
Lucas lives in Tangier with his superstar wife, Amina, who you can read more about below, and their two young children.
Amina comes to Journey Beyond Travel after over a decade of working in various non-profits, including UNESCO. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Michigan State and is a proud Moroccan, feminist, mother, promoter of equal rights, climate change activist, and she is at the forefront of all of our NGO initiatives. Given her fluencies in language (Arabic, English, French and Spanish), she is able to network throughout the world. She also provides much of the logistical help for your tour through Morocco and is a valued liaison with our partners on the ground. She loves art, freedom of expression, and is an accomplished photographer in her own right. You can read more about her on Amina’s Wikipedia page.
Amina comes to Journey Beyond Travel after over a decade of working in various non-profits, including UNESCO. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Michigan State and is a proud Moroccan, feminist, mother, promoter of equal rights, climate change activist, and she is at the forefront of all of our NGO initiatives. Given her fluencies in language (Arabic, English, French and Spanish), she is able to network throughout the world. She also provides much of the logistical help for your tour through Morocco and is a valued liaison with our partners on the ground. She loves art, freedom of expression, and is an accomplished photographer in her own right. You can read more about her on Amina’s Wikipedia page.
Fazia came to Journey Beyond Travel from a diverse cultural background – Portuguese, Brazilian, Guyanese, and Indian. She lived in Morocco for over 20 years. After growing up in Canada, she moved to the US and majored in African Studies at university with a focus on Morocco. After a year abroad in the North African Kingdom, she decided to stay and teach English for seven years in Rabat. With a decade under her belt in the field of tourism, she is now certified in Sustainable Community Development.
Thomas spent years in the Peace Corps and developed the idea that became Journey Beyond Travel. He authored the Middle Atlas Mountains and High Atlas Mountains chapters for the Rough Guide series between 2010-2015. He wanted to show people a side of Morocco left unseen, the ‘real’ Morocco. He is now a Nurse Practitioner living in Oregon back in the USA and is developing another business focusing on health.
Omar grew up in Washington DC before moving to Morocco where he lived in a few different cities including Fes, Meknes, Ifrane and Rabat. Always keeping one foot in each country, he is very comfortable navigating through both cultures. He has a background in development, having worked in different UN agencies and Moroccan Civil Society Organizations. Omar holds a particular interest for local development, community empowerment and civic engagement.
Khaoula’s journey started when her family left Rabat to raise her in Abidjan, Co?te d’Ivoire. Her West and North African upbringings gave her a taste of what she could do to preserve the rich cultures she inherited and to foster a sustainable future for them to thrive, so she made sure to pack a political science bachelor from EgE Rabat and master’s degree from Sciences Po Lyon. She then carried on in Morocco (Casablanca, Rabat) where she explored for about 7 years issues such as access to health services and medicine, inclusion and diversity in the workplace, physical and digital accessibility, alongside local and global civil society organizations and non-profits. She wandered into JBT asking if we believed in transferable skills and saying she wanted to see how tourism and development intertwined, so we let her in because she sums up what we believe in so eloquently!
Guides, Drivers, and In-Country Hosts
Proud Members of ATTA
We are members of the Adventure Travel Trade Association, one of the most renowned travel organizations in the world. We represent some of the planet's top outfitters in Morocco.
Eco-Tourism Provider
Journey Beyond Travel works hard to ensure that each trip we do meets modern environmental standards. At the grass-root level we promote ecotourism projects throughout the country.
Focused on Sustainability
We promote sustainable and responsible travel in Morocco. Our niche of offering high-quality tours ensures low impact on the special places you'll visit with our team.