TravelStore In the News

The Honeymoons and Destinations Weddings site recently launched by TravelStore has won a silver 2008 Magellan Award in the category of “best agency” website. The site was designed and developed by Resolve Digital, a San Francisco web design firm.

TravelStore is proud to have been nominated as the Leading Cruise Travel Agency (North America) in this year's 15th Annual World Travel Awards. Votes are cast by travel professionals from 167,000 travel agencies, travel tourism and hospitality professionals in over 160 countries across the globe, so a World Travel Award is one of the highest accolades a travel company can receive.

TravelStore is proud to sponsor the Breast Cancer Network of Strength (formerly known as Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization) 2008 Sacramento Walk to Empower and the 2008 Los Angeles Walk to Empower. Our sponsorship helps ensure through information, empowerment and peer support that no one faces breast cancer alone.

Acknowledging our thirty-two years in business we received this letter from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

TravelStore chief serves up luxury in Platinum-perfect style. Corporate executives and high net worth individuals use TravelStore's Platinum division to book custom-made experiences that include multi-generational travel, "super-deluxe" adventures and private yacht charters.

TravelStore's Master Travel Planner Lynn Watson helps bring far-flung corporate partners to the long-running and hugely successful For Our Children festival.

TravelStore ranks #14 in "ARC Transactions" according to Business Travel News' Annual Survey.

TravelStore agent Katie Cadar has found her calling as a Tahiti specialist.

After 30 years of piloting TravelStore Inc., Wido Schaefer, founder, president and CEO of the travel agency, is beginning to turn over the wheel to his employees.

Wido Schaefer turns to the Employee Stock Ownership Program that allows a business owner to sell an ownership stake in his company to employees.

TravelStore's Ayse Boykin feels more comfortable in the sea than on land. She can customize your diving trip to Palau or anywhere in the world.

Pamela Jacobs, an agent at TravelStore in Palos Verdes Estates, CA, said she went straight into the ECC Scholar program. "These days people have much more confidence in a professional travel agent who has taken the time to become certified in their specialty."

"People are now looking more toward unique experiences where they can indulge and enrich themselves," says Wido Schaefer, founder of TravelStore and TravelStore Platinum.

Schaefer's ability to grow with the times earned him a place as one of 2005's Leaders in Luxury.

For Marianna Monaco, her life's work is also her life's passion. Even after many years spent planning other people's vacations she still speaks of her own travel with the excitement of a novice.

TravelStore's VacationFest raises over $5,000 for the Kayne-Eras Center, a model educational, service and training center, providing personalized programming to children and young adults from at risk conditions.