The Travel Corporation
# The Travel Corporation

The Travel Corporation is an international, privately owned hotel and travel company based in Cypress, California and Bermuda. Its businesses including Contiki, Uniworld and Red Carnation Hotels hosted two million travellers in 2019.

## History

The company traces its history to a small hotel outside Cape Town, South Africa, in the early 1900s.

## Operations

As of 2022 The Travel Corporation owns tour operators and travel agents including:

* AAT Kings
   * Aussie Adventure
   * Inspiring Journeys
* Adventure World Travel
* African Travel
* Brendan Vacations
* Contiki Tours
* Down Under Tours
* Evan Evans Tours
* Grand European Travel
* HAGGiS Adventures
   * Highland Explorer Tours
   * Shamrocker Adventures
* Insight Vacations
   * Luxury Gold
* Lion World Travel
* Siva Travel Services Greece
* Trafalgar Tours
   * Costsaver
* Travel Corporation Asia
* Uniworld
* Atlas Reizen

Its Red Carnation Hotels operates in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, South Africa, Botswana, Guernsey and Switzerland.

Other activities include Florida's Old Town amusement park, Bouchard Finlayson Winery in South Africa and a shareholding in, the also South African, Cullinan Holdings Ltd travel and tourism business.

## TreadRight Foundation

The Travel Corporation's not-for-profit TreadRight Foundation was established in 2008, and as of 2021 has contributed over US$2.5 million to sustainable tourism projects.

## Awards

In August 2015, Red Carnation Hotels' Ashford Castle in Ireland was voted world's best hotel by Virtuoso Travel Week, and third best world hotel in July 2015 by Travel + Leisure magazine.

