“I just returned from ‘A Week In… Venice, Florence and Rome’ – the team at every single institution we frequented was pleased to see us. There was pleasure in the air just about everywhere, and in our team in distinct. I travel with Tauck for lots of factors, and a person is that I know I can rely on you to make positive our vacation spot is secure. Thank you for all your efforts in carrying out that. I’m really significantly searching forward to my upcoming journey.”
Sincerely,
Maureen O’Brien
Tauck Guest, 2022
Dear Tauck Friends and Household,
Like our visitor Maureen, a nine-time Tauck traveler, I have also just returned from Europe. For the duration of my travels I attended the premiere of the much-anticipated (and awe-inspiring) Enthusiasm Perform in Oberammergau, Germany, visited with Tauck partners in Munich, traveled by means of childhood family vacation spots in Austria, and retrieved my son from faculty in Switzerland. I can convey to you that all over my travels I was fulfilled with the exact pleasure and exhilaration shared by Maureen, and every person from hotel team to restauranteurs to local baristas wore smiles. It continues to be a extremely special time to visit, and a memorable expertise awaits these privileged ample to involve Europe in their summer months or slide journey ideas.
In all places I traveled, and starting off from the second I arrived in Munich, I also observed the now-common blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. We’ve all watched with wonderful disappointment the unspeakable horror and senseless tragedy in Ukraine. I’m confident your heart, like mine, goes out to the Ukrainian people today who have been suffering so needlessly over the past months. We proceed to hope and pray for a rapid and peaceful resolution to conclude this war.
We understand that some of our company may be pondering and, in truth, some have asked us outright: Are Tauck’s journeys in Europe impacted by the conflict? Is Europe risk-free? These are reasonable concerns, in particular in mild of the photographs appearing 24/7 on television and throughout the internet. I’m crafting you right now to tell you that because April we have been functioning all of our river cruises and land plans in Europe efficiently and as prepared, making wonderful memories for thousands of Tauck friends who are thrilled to be touring again.
Personally, I’d like to assure you that I felt completely and absolutely protected and comfy through my complete time in Europe. Dozens of associates from our Globally Functions and Tauck Director groups have traveled from Iceland to Budapest, and we talk to our European associates and other market colleagues each day. All echo just what I felt, which is that the environment throughout Europe feels incredibly “normal.” In all the spots I frequented the customary rhythms of lifestyle are quickly clear and superb to see. Without having exception, our companions are relieved that tourism – and specifically Tauck – is again, as our sector supplies careers and revenue for locals, quite a few of whom are supporting relatives and close friends in Ukraine. All concur that people are subsequent the information from Ukraine closely and they starvation for peace, but in any other case their everyday lives carry on typically.
Make sure you know that when you journey with Tauck your journey will come with a in depth aid procedure that is 97 yrs in the generating. It starts off with the treatment and neighborhood expertise of the Tauck Administrators who journey with you on your journey and it involves our network of outstanding provider-associates all over the world. As element of Tauck’s ongoing functions, we very carefully observe events in just about every region of the globe exactly where we run, checking all relevant advisories from the U.S. Point out Office, international media reviews, and advice issued to Tauck by personal security consultants whose solutions we keep. I want you to know that we would by no means run a tour or cruise until we were being absolutely convinced that it is secure to do so.
In the unlikely function that you should really ever knowledge a disruption of a Tauck journey, we stand all set to support. Tauck has a really properly trained World Reaction Workforce comprised of workers from throughout the enterprise that can be activated at a moment’s observe, 24/7, 365 times a 12 months. What’s more, the endeavours of our International Response Team are bolstered by a quantity of external help agencies whose abilities ranges from changing a shed passport to arranging an unexpected emergency healthcare evacuation. You are really in no way on your own when you travel with Tauck.
And traveling now is particularly essential. I firmly believe that that vacation is a sturdy drive for peace in this world, and that our capability for knowledge and empathy improves exponentially when we experience other areas, other cultures and other people today.
We appear ahead to serving to our guests knowledge this great entire world around us, we salute their intrepid spirit, and we thank our guests and travel advisor partners for placing their rely on in Tauck.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Tombaugh
President
