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We hear from happy customers all the time at Collette Vacations.
In fact, every letter or email that comes in eventually makes its way to me so I read a lot of testimonials. Many of these customer letters mention the tour manager…how professional and knowledgeable he or she is about the destination and how they seem to [...]
I should have known better. After all, I work for the country’s oldest tour operator. But there I was, on a road trip with the family, 400 miles from home and having a hard time finding a hotel.  Me, a “travel professional.”
Up and down Route 95 on the East Coast there are hundreds of hotels, [...]
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This post is by guest blogger Allison Villasenor, Collette’s senior project manager, who recently returned from Smithsonian Journeys Travel Adventures Classical Turkey, a tour she rode with 36 other passengers. Allison has been with Collette since 2003 and this was her first time to Turkey…but hopefully not her last.
As I boarded the plane for Istanbul [...]
If you are anything like me, curiosity gets the best of you when you see a cover story that gathers the major players from an industry near and dear to me and you … travel (I make this presumption because you are reading a blog about travel). Working at Collette Vacations, I had the opportunity [...]
When it comes to dream jobs, this 20-year Collette veteran must rank up there with the best of them…at least from this travel lover’s viewpoint where his responsibilities appear pretty swell to me. Manuel Paulo, Vice President of Worldwide Contracting for Collette Vacations, has 33 years of experience in the tourism industry where he began [...]
I can’t believe my luck. I am about to explore a quaint village where Mount Kofel and the Bavarian Alps embrace me like an old friend and I hand myself over to the village that softly beckons. The welcoming facades of houses are brilliantly painted with frescoes. The scenes range from Biblical to storybook. I [...]
I don’t envy the tour manager’s job. He or she handles so many behind-the-scenes details many of which entail a steady stream of communicating with step-on guides, restaurant managers, hotel reservations staff, and goodness knows who else. They seem to take pride in the fact that you will never again have to touch your overweight [...]
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