Carlson Parkway P.O. Box 59159 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55459 U.S.A. Carlson Companies, Inc. comprises a rapidly growing Minneapolis-based worldwide corporation that encompasses three operating groups: Carlson Travel Group, concerned with worldwide travel management; Carlson Hospitality Worldwide, dealing in hotels and resorts (including Radisson, Regent, and Country Inns brands), restaurants (T.G.…
1405 Xenium Lane Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Carlson Wagonlit Travel is one of the leading travel and expense management companies in the world, serving both corporate and leisure clients. Carlson Wagonlit created the first truly multinational presence for corporate travel management. Our global strength was enhanced when U.S.-based Carlson Travel Group and French-based…
One North First Street, Suite 300 San Jose, California 95113 U.S.A. Classic Vacation Group, Inc. pioneered consolidation of wholesale travel vacation providers when it formed with the acquisition of several leading companies in the late 1990s. Its financial difficulties led to a dismantling of the company, as minor subsidiaries were sold in late 2001 and early 2002. In January 2002, Expedia, Inc.…
130 4th Avenue North P.O. Box 2009 Edmonds, Washington 98020 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission at Europe Through the Back Door is to equip travelers with the confidence and skills necessary to travel through Europe independently, economically, and in a way that is culturally broadening. We value travel as a powerful way to better understand and contribute to the world in which we live. We …
First Choice House London Rd. Crawley, West Sussex RH10 2GX United Kingdom Company Perspectives: First Choice is a leading European leisure travel company comprising mainstream and specialist tour operations, travel retail and aviation businesses. Having escaped a hostile takeover attempt by larger rival Airtour Plc, and at the same time seeing the collapse of a proposed merger with Switzerland's…
69 Spring Street Ramsey, New Jersey 07446 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The buying power of Liberty Travel is second to none. Our unmatched volume means exceptional vacation values and savings that could only be offered by an organization of our size and prestige. Liberty Travel, Inc. is the largest privately owned retail leisure travel agency in the United States. Liberty's travel agents sell pri…
240 East Morris Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Morris: We Know Your World! Morris Travel Services L.L.C. is the largest travel agency in the western United States and one of the largest in the nation. It provides a full range of travel services and products for individual, family, government, and corporate customers through its more than 50 retail offices in Utah, …
4255 Amon Carter Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 76155 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: There are no straight lines in nature. We live in a world of curves. A world of revenue curves, profit curves, growth curves, learning curves, expense curves and yield curves. One can follow a curve or get ahead of it, and in rare instances, one can actually shape the curve of things to come. The SABRE Group is changi…
8907 North Port Washington Road Milwaukee Wisconsin 53217 U.S.A. Company Perspectives The people of The Mark Travel Corporation proudly service 2.6 million vacationers each year. Superb care has been our business for 30 years. That's why 16 leading vacation companies trust their customers to us. The Mark Travel Corporation is a Milwaukee-based private company that sells leisure travel packages to…
American Express Company World Financial Center 200 Vesey Street New York, New York 10285 U.S.A. Prior to its acquisition by the American Express Company in 1994, Thomas Cook Travel Inc. was the third-largest travel agency in the United States. At the time of the takeover, Thomas Cook operated 500 offices across the country and sold one out of every 50 airline tickets in the United States. Staffe…
Karl-Wiechert-Allee 23 D-30625 Hannover Germany Company Perspectives: Quick success is over quickly. To ensure the long-term successful existence of our company, we pursue long-term objectives. These enable us to maintain a clear focus in an increasingly complex and complicated environment which is changing ever more quickly. We aim to be the leading leisure company in Europe, offering quality-co…