The Power of Travel: Why Travel in 2017 is More Important Than Ever
As 2016 comes to a close, it brings us great happiness when past travelers personally take the time to contact our TTC team members to recount their life-changing experiences while traveling with us. As a four generations family-run business, we have learnt, grown and evolved together with our loyal guests who may have started their travel journeys as teenagers with our millennial brands, Contiki and Busabout, to experiencing multi-generational family adventures with Trafalgar or Uniworld, and then enjoying our premium and luxury style of travel with Insight Vacations and Uniworld in their golden years....
Kickstarting our ME To WE Global Partnership Launch Event in Toronto with Co-founder, Marc Kielburger
Last October 4th, 2016, with nineteen of our TTC Canada and TreadRight team members, we hosted a special media dinner in Toronto where I was the Master of Ceremonies with Marc Kielbuger as our guest of honor. Our guests gave us a warm welcome since this is the city where Marc and Craig Kielburger co-founded WE Charity. For the past two decades, Canadians have been supporting their charitable and international development initiatives.
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Travel with Purpose: Celebrating Our ME to WE Global Partnership By Offering Life-Changing Volunteer Trip Experiences
October has been a positive month of whirlwind travels, fantastic TTC brand launches and announcing one of our most meaningful, new global partnerships in Toronto and New York, with ME to WE.
Thanks to an introduction from Marie Anne MacRae, our Global VP of Strategic Partnerships, beginning in 2014, The Travel Corporation supported WE Day UK as a transportation sponsor by taking deserving London-based high school students to Wembley arena. Last October, I personally attended my first WE Day experience in Toronto. It was amazing to witness 20,000 engaged young people who earned their invitation to this event by joining the WE movement and doing volunteer work in their local communities....
TreadRight Ambassador Céline Cousteau Visits My Beloved Homeland of Southern Africa
For the past five years, The Travel Corporation & our non-profit foundation TreadRight have been working with our awesomely inspiring TreadRight Ambassador Céline Cousteau. Céline recently traveled to my beloved homeland, South Africa for various film shoots on behalf of the TreadRight Foundation and our Bushman's Kloof Wilderness Reserve. ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSULTING A TRUSTED TRAVEL AGENT – NOW MORE THAN EVER!
I have recently done several industry presentations which included a summary (also a reminder) of why a good travel agent is as relevant today as ever, and who is a very important resource when planning a vacation/holiday.
I always use a “trusted advisor” (what I call a good or great travel agent), when booking my family’s holidays. I trust this person, as they know me, know what I am looking for and will spend the time and effort to find suitable options and enhanced deals for me. These sometimes include great air offers, as well as improved hotel packages and upgrades. (Obviously, when I travel with one of our brands, as I did recently with Trafalgar (see below) on one of their amazing trips through some of the USA’s spectacular national parks last May, or when traveling with Uniworld or Insight Vacations, or when staying at one of Red Carnation Hotels’ jewels, I will always book these directly).
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