National Walking Month takes place this month, and with the welcome spring sunshine and longer days, walking specialist Inntravel is encouraging hikers to take to the trails with a special offer representing a saving of up to £300* on new bookings made by 25 May.

Whether new to walking holidays or an experienced hiker, Inntravel’s programme of self-guided holidays has something for everyone, taking guests to the most spectacular corners at home and abroad.

For more than 40 years, the company has led the way in European self-guided walking holidays.

They uncover and curate remarkable destinations to offer crafted holidays complete with on-call support. The focus is on a sustainable, immersive travel which embraces local food and culture, along with welcoming, privately-owned hotels that benefit communities.

Sample holidays for National Walking Month:

New to Hiking Boots - A Stroll in the Italian Dolomites
Experience Europe’s most beautiful mountain range using panoramic cable cars, gondolas and funiculars to avoid strenuous climbs to explore the Dolomites on foot.
The dramatic, jagged peaks of northeast Italy offer grand scale scenery, but the day hikes are gentle, following easy-to-read walking notes and maps, with days on foot bookended by evenings luxuriating in a 4-star spa hotel.

Marvel at the Alpe di Siusi, Europe’s largest Alpine plateau, the UNESCO Dolomites Panoramic Balcony for grandstand views over emblematic Sassolungo, and enjoy a low-level route along the path of the historic Ferata de Gherdëina, a former railway line built by Russian POWs during WWI.

Special Price: A one-week Stroll in the Italian Dolomites costs from £1,010pp (reduced from £1,160) based on 2 people sharing, including 7 nights’ half-board accommodation, luggage transfers, local bus & rail travel, and route notes and maps.

Tick off the Bucket List – Tour du Mont Blanc
Walk in the shadow of the Mont Blanc Massif – and Western Europe’s highest mountain - whose striking peaks and aiguilles (pinnacles), many of them over 4,000 metres, dominate the horizon.

This 12-day immersive adventure is ‘a high’ without ascending the heights, on a variation of the classic Tour du Mont Blanc.

Hikers follow a Grand Randonnée route, taking in France, Italy and Switzerland, with a non-stop panorama of some of Europe’s finest mountain scenery.

Enjoy a rest day in Courmayeur, and telescope certain sections through the use of shuttle buses or riding by cable car, itself an iconic Alpine experience.

The finale lies in the famous mirrored-surface of the Mer de Glace, above Chamonix, with plenty of photography opportunities on the trip of a lifetime.

Special Price: from £2,175pp (reduced from £2,325pp) based on 2 sharing, including 11 nights’ B&B accommodation, 4 dinners, route notes and maps and GPS navigation and luggage transfers..

A Feast for Foodies - Tuscany’s Hidden Hills to the Ligurian Sea

Explore Tuscany’s lesser-known, wild region of La Maremma and discover its Etruscan past while walking from sleepy medieval hill-top towns to the shores of the Golfo di Baratti on the Ligurian Sea.

Once populated only by migrant charcoal burners, wandering shepherds, and butteri (cowboys tending the region’s oxen and horses), today it’s an ideal region to explore on foot.

Stay in rural agriturismi and at a country house amid olive groves, vineyards, and oak forests.

A real highlight of the holiday is the robust red wines and the quality of food, including the olive oil, cheeses, chestnuts, honey, truffle, and saffron – a snapshot of the past - made into dishes like Tortelli Maremmani, Spezzatino alla Maremmana, acquacotta and the finest charcuterie. The trip culminates by following the shoreline into Golfo di Baratti, one of Tuscany's most unspoiled bays, home to a vast Etruscan archaeological park.

Special Price: from £1,120pp (reduced from £1,270pp) based on 2 sharing inc. 6 nights’ B&B, 5 dinners, a wine tasting, luggage transported, route notes and maps, GPS, and transfers on 2 days.

For more information, contact www.inntravel.co.uk 01653 617000.