About us

Outdoor Index is a marketplace specialized in the promotion and booking of adventure tours and outdoor experiences in Chile, created to connect travelers from around the world with local guides, authentic activities, and unique natural destinations, from the Atacama Desert to the Chilean Patagonia.

Our platform facilitates the search, comparison, and booking of tours in Chile, offering clear information, verified experiences, and a safe and simple booking process. We work with local operators to ensure responsible, quality adventures with a positive impact, especially in remote and less explored destinations.

Diversifying to protect Chile's destinations

One of our main values is the diversification of routes and outdoor experiences in Chile. We promote a wide range of excursions to avoid tourist overload in popular destinations and, at the same time, highlight lesser-known places.

This strategy helps protect fragile ecosystems, reduce erosion caused by over-demand, and offer travelers more authentic and memorable experiences. Chile, especially Patagonia, has an infinite number of corners to discover. Every travel decision is also a form of conservation.

Choosing alternative routes, new providers, and emerging destinations not only enriches your experience. It actively contributes to caring for the territory.

Being agents of change for conscious tourism

Tourism has environmental, sociocultural, and economic effects. It moves and interacts within these three factors actively. Our purpose is to be agents of change and educate towards responsible practices on these issues.

An agent of change is an active, persistent, and focused role. The change towards conscious tourism is a shift towards responsible decisions, both for tourists and operators. A conscious approach allows you to value a trip through storytelling, increase your capacity for amazement, make your trip transcend by giving it a purpose and teaching, and that stays with you much longer than the trip itself.

Promoting adventure as a personal transformative experience

Active interaction with nature is a tremendous resource of challenges, and it is the challenges that push us to go further, to step out of our comfort zone and test our abilities, decisions, our head, and our mind, to visualize and perhaps integrate a better version of ourselves.

An adventure can be a transformative personal experience. The best lessons come from a crisis. For some, that crisis or challenge may be a half-day hike, and for others, ice climbing. For some, a river kayak descent, for others, an 8-day trekking expedition. Helping you transform your trip into a personal growth experience is a priority.

Activation of tourist ecosystems

When visiting a place as a tourist, it is important to consider that your visit not only represents an income for the guide with whom you will take a tour. It is very important to also consider that you will contribute, for example, by buying at the local grocery store, or perhaps refueling. You will visit a store with local products and souvenirs, and thus your visit becomes a complete activation of the entire tourist ecosystem.

We constantly want to be activators of these ecosystems, generate movement in the entire environment and tourist chain of each locality, promoting local and small business consumption, generating exposure and also promoting collaboration. In this way, promoting local culture from local development for endogenous social conservation, from the inside out.

Outdoor Index/ Puerto Natales, Patagonia. Chile.