With Gratitude
Our first Connections magazine was published in the fall of 2009. The mood was low in our world, similar to these past months. Our vision was to share stories with friends and family of people experiencing the joy and wonder of travel; meeting new people, learning and growing through new experiences and, having fun in the process. More than 11 years later – our aim is the same. These stories will be shared weekly through the month of December.
2020 is our 95th anniversary and not the year any of us expected. Yet as we turn the calendar to 2021, we have valuable context from which to frame these past months. We have lost much but we have also gained much: a greater appreciation for so many of life’s pleasures we often take for granted; being with people and the importance of human connections; freedom of movement – whether it’s across town, across states or around the world; the awareness of our senses and how they may be stimulated and how we long for more stimulation – for the sounds, the sights, the smells, the touch – when we have new experiences.
It’s important we are always open to seeing the good and beauty in our world. It’s not easy at times, but it’s there. We are grateful we were able to stay connected over these past months. Through our Inside Tauck presentations, our Compass newsletter and lectures, stories and online gatherings, we enjoyed more than one million connections with our guests, employees and partners. They did not replace the real thing but served to engage the senses and remind us all of the things we treasure.
We look forward to next week when we will recap this extraordinary year with stories of how we stay connected with our extended Tauck family!
Most sincerely,
Dan Mahar
CEO
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A Legacy of ResilienceFamily values and 95 years of navigating past challenges prepared Tauck for the unprecedented perils of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Road Trips, 95 Years and CountingOur company began with a road trip through New England in 1925. In honor of our 95th Anniversary, two of our stellar TDs created road trips for our employees that took us through the beauty and fall foliage where it all began. |
Brightening Our WorldInspiring messages from our guests lifted our spirits during these unprecedented times. |
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We’ve Kept the Porchlight On For YouOur partners around the world deliver the experiences you expect from Tauck. They are ready when the time is right and share their visions for welcoming you back. |
Tauck Strong TogetherWorking from home – yet working as closely together as ever – our colleagues have stayed strong together as we plan for our return to the office and to travel; their letters and dedication are a testament to our culture here at Tauck. |
Thank You ArthurOur Tauck Directors created a moving video salute to Arthur Tauck during our annual Tauck Director seminar this past February. |
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An Attitude of GratitudeIn this annual essay we run every Thanksgiving, Colin Treadwell reflects on the joys of traveling with an attitude of gratitude. Its message is timeless. |
We are grateful to Tauck for the ten trips which we have greatly enjoyed to interesting places throughout the world. We look forward to future tours with Tauck. We have enjoyed travelling to 6 continents, including Antarctica, with Tauck. We hope to add our seventh continent through travelling with Tauck to Australia in the near future. We appreciate Tauck’s having kept in touch with its clients through newsletters, on line presentations and e-mails throughout this past year. This continues to keep us interested in all that our world has to offer.
With a grateful heart,
Norman H. and Richard H.
Look forward to more memories.
We have experienced a few Tauck trips and have others schedule. We are grateful for the knowledge, care, and fun that we experienced. Best wishes and Holiday Greetings to all at Tauck – especially the Directors we have traveled with.
We thoroughly enjoyed our cruise in 2019 from Romania to Amsterdam. We are looking forward to traveling with Tauck again in the safe future. Tauck is the absolutely best tour company we have traveled with. Thank you for all you do to make a journey with you so relaxing and fun. We’ll be back!
I think that the cancellation of our trip in September to the Passion Play was the first year in almost 20 years that we didn’t travel somewhere with Tauck! It was like a void in our lives
Hello Everyone, On behalf of my entire family, WE MISS YOU. We have been on 16 Tauck Tours since 2000, and every one of them was special. We can not wait to get back into the swing of things soon. We are not sure about out plans for 2021 (As are most folks in the World today), but rest assured, Tauck will certainly continue to be an important part of our lives as we go on from here.
Please thank all of those who work up there planning such wonderful vacations, all of the Tour Directors who make the trips so enjoyable and all the other guests who have been absolutely wonderful friends. On one trip to Venice, Florence and Rome in June of 2005, we met two great couples that we still keep in contact with. One couple live near us and we have gotten together with them for dinner once a month for the last 15+ years. THANK YOU TAUCK!!
We miss traveling with Tauck and hope that by the end of 2021 we will be able to resume.
We look forward to taking a pandemic-postponed Tauck trip to Eastern Canada next summer. Thanks for keeping in touch with us and sending us your wonderful brochures.
Looking forward to u trip to Portugal in Oct of 2021……perhaps I’ll make the photo display.
Great, thought you might want to know. In the wonderful calendar you sent us on the back of the December page is a picture of a blonde woman with 4 monks. She is my wife when we were on the India/Nepal trip. The picture was taken by Corinne V. Bill M.
I have numerous tours with Tauck and keep booking more. I still have the 2014 Connections because it has an article about how I met my traveling companion on a Tauck tour. If that article was written today, it would have to mention that I have made six friends, two who live in England, on Tauck tours and that we have traveled together because of you.
I am patiently waiting for my 1st Tauck trip out West and I hope 2021 is the. Best year to take the trip . Waiting and praying 🙏 that life will change for the better.
Sincerely.,
Marie
Thank you for this e-magazine …. My husband and I are just waiting, waiting, waiting until we can travel again with Tauck! Once the world gets a safe vaccine, we’ll ve signing up for a Tauck trip!
Great
2013 was our intro to Tauck. Switzerland with legendary Peter Tanner. We were hooked. We have been thrilled and grateful to travel 5 times with Tauck. From Tanzania, to Canyonlands, to Canadian Rockies, and Peru + Galápagos !!! Every tour director and local guide has had a true passion for exceeding our expectations, and providing lifelong memories. As 2021 approaches, we are excited for our future travels with the Tauck team. Stay safe. Thank you so much !
Congratulations Tauck Team, the best in the business!
We are so grateful for the 4 trips we have taken with Tauck. We look at the photos of amazing places and meeting so many terrific people.
Tauck trips light up our lives. We are going to Yellowstone in August…cannot wait.
Thanks for the most amazing memories. Be safe and have a great season. Til we meet again!
My cousin and his wife (Charles M. and Mollie M.)have taken a number of Tauck trips and kick-started my interest in traveling with Tauck after Covid-19 is over.
I went to South Africa with Tauck in 2019. The experience was so great, I imagined a yearly trip during my retirement with Tauck after. However, COVAD-19 has interrupted our plans. After we are vaccinated we will surely plan additional adventures with TAUCK.
Sure miss traveling with Tauck! After some 20 plus trips 2020 was incomplete without a Tauck Tour
Hope we are all on the road soon.
Thank you for always offering the best values and accommodations to your guests. I plan on traveling again with Tauck in October 2021 to Eastern Canada and Niagara Falls. In this devastating year, my next Tauck trip give me hope of a brighter future with fun travels again!
We had an amazing trip in 2019. We met some very nice fellow tourists, entertained and instructed by a talented, vivacious tour guide and bus driver, saw spectacular scenery, and participated in some fascinating activities. Trip doesn’t describe it! We are looking forward to traveling, above and beyond first class, with Tauck in the future.
Hoping to join you in 2021!
Lovely memories, especially this year
Happy Holidays to all our like-minded friends and travelers at Tauck. We look forward to joining you on another Tauck adventure in the post-pandemic era…..confident that Tauck will look after our health and safety as no other tour operator can. People and their comfort always come first with Tauck. Thanks.
I am looking forward to the trip I promised my granddaughter… she is so excited …. if you say it’s a “go” in Summer 2021, we’re goin’. I am happy to introduce the new generation to Tauck. Thank you for staying in touch.
We have taken four trips (all very different) with Tauck. We appreciate all the behind the scenes work that goes into making a successful, and enjoyable trip. Everyone in your company should be proud of the high standards that is the norm for Tauck. We await the day to take our next tour when Covid is behind us. Happy Holidays.
Cannot wait to get back to traveling with TAUCK!!!
Thank you to Tauck and everyone in the background and the great world we leave in.
We traveled to China 🇨🇳 in 2019 with 22 amazing people and had the most awesome experiences. The Great Wall, feeding the panda’s, Shanghai, Tiananmen Square, Terra Cotta Warriors, Hong Kong at the Ritz-Carlton.
And no Covid…
We Greatly appreciated our Tour Guides.
We have made several trips with Tauck and have loved them all.
Best Regards.
Jack And Bird
We met Mrs. Tauck when I began working for the City of Sanibel Island. We have enjoyed every trip we’ve taken with Tauck Travel and my most recent was one year ago with my sister seeing the European Christmas Markets down the Rhine. We will be traveling again with you as soon as things are open. Stay well all!
We have traveled with Tauck for the past 30 years. Sometimes with my 3 children. who of course are adults now. (28 trips) We cherish most of all the bridges tours with our only grandson who is already 24 years old and on his way to become a lawyer.We had reservations for a tour that would have taken us to Berlin this year but that of course had to be cancelled. Looking forward to 2021!meanwhile our gratitude for all these years of excellece. Nancy Marin de Pagan.M.D,
My first trip was supposed to take place this year. Darn Covid! Looking forward to our trip in 2021.
Thank you for keeping us in touch – we remember our great tours with you. Perhaps we will have the opportunity again, one day.
Our first ever trip with Tauck was cancelled due to guess COVID We will book again
I have told many of my clients of your wonderful musical tour by riverboat from Budapest to Prague…they are enthralled and am hoping that will be a consideration in the future. It is the last time I was away.
Looking forward to trips in 2021
Hoping we can resume travel in 2021. We love our Tauck trips and have two planned this summer – Tauck trips 6 and 7 – Canadian Rockies/Glacier Nat’l Park and riverboat cruising on the Danube.
My husband and I have been to Italy, France, England, Costa Rica and America’s Canyonlands with Tauck. Enjoyed each trip very much. Met nice people, ate in excellent restaurants and had access to places we would never have seen if we were not traveling with Tauck. Have not decided where we want to go next but we will go there with Tauck. Hope it’s soon!