With Ukraine on Our Minds

Dear Tauck Friends and Household,

I am creating to you as I fly back again from an prolonged trip to Europe, possessing just traveled to Switzerland to visit my son in university, and to London to attend conferences with our community companions and the European Tour Operators Association, wherever I’m happy to provide as chair of the board. I can inform you that during my travels, the joy and perception of renewal in the air were palpable. The hotel staff members, cafe personnel and area individuals I encountered ended up complete of smiles and excited to again welcome visitors. It’s a really unique time to stop by Europe, and a memorable experience awaits.

Of study course, anticipation for vacation to Europe has possible been tempered lately by the tragic events in Ukraine. I’m positive your coronary heart, like mine, goes out to the Ukrainian men and women who have been struggling so needlessly about the previous months. We carry on to hope and pray for a timely and tranquil resolution to this horrible tragedy.

Although it’s understandable that gatherings in Ukraine may well be resulting in unease, I’d like to assure you that I felt completely and wholly secure and comfortable throughout my entire time in Europe. It all felt pretty “normal”… the typical rhythm of existence in the spots I visited was very apparent and excellent to see. That was unquestionably my personal working experience in Europe, and several of my Tauck colleagues (who either get the job done completely for us in Europe or are touring there in planning for the forthcoming period) report the very same detail. Similarly, we are in every day communication with our wide network of provider-partners across the continent and other business colleagues, and they share a equivalent message people today are adhering to the news from Ukraine and they hunger for peace, but normally their daily lives carry on generally.

You should know that when you journey with Tauck, your journey will come with a thorough support technique that is 97 a long time in the earning. It begins with the care and area knowledge of the Tauck Director who travels with you on your journey, and extends to our network of unbelievable supplier-associates about the world. (For all those friends traveling on a Tauck river cruise, it also contains the private security staff who sail with us on each individual river cruise departure.) As element of Tauck’s ongoing operations, we cautiously keep track of situations in just about every space of the world wherever we work, monitoring all appropriate advisories from the U.S. Condition Division, global media studies, and steerage issued to Tauck by private safety consultants whose providers we keep. I want you to know that we would in no way function a tour or cruise unless we were being absolutely confident that it is safe and sound to do so.

In the not likely celebration that you really should ever practical experience a disruption of your Tauck journey, we stand ready to support. Tauck has a remarkably skilled International Response Staff comprised of workers from all over the organization that can be activated at a moment’s notice, 24/7, 365 days a calendar year. What’s far more, the initiatives of our World Response Crew are bolstered by a range of external assist agencies whose know-how ranges from changing a lost passport to arranging an emergency health-related evacuation. You are really under no circumstances by itself when you journey with Tauck.

And traveling now is in particular significant. I firmly feel that vacation is a robust drive for peace in this earth, and that our potential for comprehension and empathy raises exponentially when we experience other spots, other cultures and other people.

We glimpse forward to helping our visitors working experience this superb earth all-around us, we salute their intrepid spirit, and we thank our friends and vacation advisors associates for placing their trust in Tauck.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Tombaugh
President