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The Scoop: What to Know About Trafalgar Tours

With 300 itineraries in 72 countries, trafalgar tours casts a wide net..

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Here at TourScoop, we’re all about using our real-world, real-person travel expertise—honed over decades of travel—to help travelers make great decisions about travel. Today we’re going deep on Trafalgar Tours, a tour company that’s been around for nearly a century. In this article, we’ve gathered up everything we think you might need to know to decide if Trafalgar is going to be the right tour operator for your next trip.

Trafalgar Tours is one of the grande dames of the tour world, one that has escorted five million guests on trips around the world over the last century and has a solid track record. Today, it has 300 itineraries in 72 countries. Its strength lies in its ability to deliver both standard coach tours and also small group tours and specialized tours that highlight nature, history, food, and other specific areas of interest.

TourScoop Takeaways : Trafalgar

• Countries: 72 countries on six continents
• Tour Size Average: The standard group size is about 40 guests. Trafalgar also offers Small Group Active Tours that have no more than 17 guests. 
• Tour Type: Coach

How to Book

To book a Trafalgar tour, you can go a few different routes. The easiest is to book through Trafalgar ; but you can also opt for a tour-specialist online travel agent like Travelstride , Tourhub , or TourRadar .

Credibility Check

Trafalgar has a Feefo rating of 4.6/5 and received the company’s Platinum Trusted Service Award for 2022. On TourRadar , Trafalgar has a rating of 4.5/5 and is a gold partner, meaning the brand has a high rating and is recognized to promptly respond to queries. According to Trafalgar, it has a repeat guest rating of 53% with a 97% satisfaction rate.

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The brand has won over 80 awards including Travel Weekly’s Readers’ Choice Awards and USA Today’s 10Best Tour Company. It also hosts unedited reviews from its customers on its site. 

Tour Destinations

Trafalgar offers trips to 72 countries across six continents, with over 300 itineraries . Among its most popular tour destinations are England, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Egypt, Ireland, Argentina, the United States, and Thailand.

Trafalgar offers both general guided vacations and special interest tours. Its special interest tours include food and wine tours such as Taste and Sound of the South , family tours including Pioneer Adventures of the Old West , religious tours such as Land of the Gods , battlefield tours including WWI and WWII Battlefields , safaris such as Wonders of Kenya , and women’s only tours in destinations such as Turkey and Egypt .

Trafalgar also offers active travel tours with options for more rigorous hiking and biking activities than the average tour. These trips include Trafalgar’s new Small Group Active Tours that include itineraries such as Yellowstone, The Tetons and Glacier National Park and California Coast Food and Wine Trail .

Tour Guides

Tour directors come onto the job with three to five years of road experience, and receive a ton of training including diversity and inclusion training, well-being training, customer service instruction, and administration. All of this is geared to help these tour guides be as professional, organized, helpful, and personable as possible.

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In addition to all that training, each year, travel directors also receive a week-long professional development program in which they are placed in the position of the guest for a week of touring and training on the ground and in the classroom. Trafalgar has travel directors who have been with the company for 30 years; the longest serving Travel Director has been with Trafalgar for 45 years .

Inclusions/Extras

Trafalgar trips include all accommodations and transportation during the trip plus most meals. Most activities are included in the itinerary, though Trafalgar also offers optional experiences for additional fees. Transfers to and from the airport are offered in the majority of overseas countries free of charge. Trafalgar can help arrange flights (not included in the base price) at the beginning and end of a trip.

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On select trips featuring Be My Guest experiences, Trafalgar includes one-of-a-kind experiences such as meeting with locals for lunch and learning about their way of life, staying in accommodations such as castles or historical hotels, or gaining early entry into bucket list attractions such as the Vatican.

Typical Travelers

The majority of Trafalgar guests are 50 and up, though on family tours children as young as five participate. Trafalgar has a robust solo travel program with free or reduced single supplement prices for tours in Europe, North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Travelers come from all over the world, and in recent years, post-trip guest-managed Facebook groups have cropped up, allowing guests (and their travel director) to stay in touch. 

Communication 

After booking a Trafalgar tour, guests get access to MyTrafalgar , a gated part of the Trafalgar website where guests can provide details about any dietary restrictions, upload emergency contact information, and connect with their Travel Director. About a week before the departure date, guests receive access to all travel documents for the trip plus instructions for joining a group chat with Travel Directors and other guests.

Loyalty Program

Trafalgar has switched from its former VIT loyalty program to the Global Tour Rewards program, which allows guests to collect and spend rewards across all the TTC tour companies, including Trafalgar, Insight Vacations, Luxury Gold, Costsaver, Brendan Vacations, and Contiki.

Private Options

Groups of 10 or more can work with the Trafalgar team to create customized private itineraries that cater to specific budget and interests.  

Sustainability Efforts

Trafalgar works with the TreadRight Foundation on projects focused on conserving the planet, preserving cultures throughout the world, and protecting wildlife. In 2020, Trafalgar, along with TreadRight, launched the How We Tread Right (HWTR) sustainability strategy that the brand is hoping to achieve by 2025. These goals are in line with the UN’s Global Goals and address climate change, sustainable food production, waste reduction, travel experiences, diversity and inclusion and wildlife. 

Trafalgar offers opportunities on trip for guests to work towards those sustainable goals through its MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences. These experiences are meant to leave a more positive social or environmental impact on the communities they visit.

Trafalgar (and the other TTC companies)  recently became the first global tour operator to “secure validated short and long-term net zero targets through the Science Based Target Initiative – SBTi, a partnership with CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute and the World Wide Fund for Nature.”

Health and Safety Practices

Trafalgar’s teams offer always-on support and are always up to date on the latest regulations. Should any issues arise, there’s 24/7 incident response that means the Trafalgar team can and will assist and work directly with local medical support and local authorities. Trafalgar updates its health and safety practices regularly, so check the website for the latest policies.

Family Companies

Trafalgar is a part of The Travel Corporation’s family of brands, which also includes Insight Vacations , Contiki , Uniworld , and about a dozen other brands.

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Trafalgar Experiences a Renaissance in its Centenary Year

Melissa da Silva, president of Trafalgar, which celebrates the 100 th  anniversary of its parent company this year. 

As Trafalgar, the flagship tour operator of The Travel Corporation, celebrates the 100 th anniversary of its parent company, Trafalgar is working hard to ensure that the company’s first 100 years won’t be its last.

“We’ve been doing a lot of focus groups to make sure what we’re doing resonates with the market,” said Melissa da Silva, president of Trafalgar. “We’re making some simplifications to the messaging, trying to build that awareness so when a consumer is thinking of travel, they’ll understand that Trafalgar is a great option for them. And when they go in to their travel agent, they’ll say, ‘I want a Trafalgar.’”

For years, Trafalgar has been implementing marketing campaigns that promote the advantages of traveling with guided groups. “We’re driving that awareness of guided vacations, and what an amazing way it is to travel,” said da Silva, “so that people will go in and ask their travel agent specifically for that, instead of, ‘What trip would be great for me?’” 

Guided travel renaissance Back in the 1990s, the traveling public became increasingly confident about traveling independently, and escorted tour operators feared their products were heading to obsolescence. But it didn’t turn out that way.

Escorted tours were beginning to be seen as too standardized, regimented and superficial. “If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium” became the tagline for the things people didn’t like about group travel. Then two things happened. Tour operators changed, and the market changed.

Trafalgar was among the tour operators leading the charge to change their products and marketing messages to overturn the misconceptions about the escorted travel experience. They added flexibility and free time to their itineraries. Clients wanted time to explore on their own, freedom to make some of their own decisions and sometimes travel independent of the group.

Tour operators slowed it down, introduced more independence, spent more time at each destination. And perhaps most importantly, they used their leverage as masters of destination management to provide immersive experiences that clients could not get on their own. A tour would no longer be a series of drive-by experiences of iconic sites. Clients wanted to get inside.

But it’s hard to penetrate the surface if you just go on your own. To get on the inside, you need connections with insiders. “You wouldn’t walk up to a local in the middle of the street and say, ‘Hey can I have a meal in your home?’” said da Silva. “But that’s something we can do on our trips.”

Tour operators even changed their terminology. Most tour operators dropped the word “tour” from their brands. The term “escorted tour” fell by the wayside and was replaced by a new name: Guided vacations.

It was more than just a new name. The guided vacation had evolved to a different kind of experience than the historical escorted tour. It became the best way to gain an authentic, immersive, insider experience of the destination. 

The authenticity movement At the same time that tour operators were changing their product model, the market changed. Although independent travel continued to grow, the need for professional guidance also grew, and these two trends continued independently. One did not cancel out the other. Many travelers embrace both independent and guided travel.

“Authenticity” became the buzzword. Travelers wanted deeper immersion in the destinations. They wanted to meet locals and learn about their ways of life. And the best way to gain access to those behind-the-scenes experiences was through experienced travel professionals who work the destination day after day, year after year, and have the connections to set up the meetings.

As the age of authenticity has taken hold, tour operators are experiencing a renaissance as being the best equipped to provide authentic, immersive travel experiences.  

‘Be My Guest’ It’s now 10 years since Trafalgar introduced its “Be My Guest” feature, which provides in-home dinners with local hosts.

“It was a unique idea that Gavin [Tollman, CEO of Trafalgar] had, where we took guests into the homes of two sisters in Sorrento,” said da Silva. “It was only on a couple of our trips. They had a lovely Tuscan Italian meal and they drank limoncello made from lemons grown in the grove that the guests had walked through to get into the home.”

Trafalgar wasn’t sure how it would pan out at first. But it turned out to be a big hit.

“At end of season, in surveys, the clients could only say great things about the experiences they had with the Esposito sisters,” said da Silva. Most of the clients said it was the most memorable part of the trip.

“We knew we were onto something,” said da Silva. “That’s when we started to include them on more trips. Now we have a Be My Guest experience on all trips in Europe and most of our trips in the rest of the world. It gives you the opportunity to not just be in the destination, but to connect to the destination. What better way to understand the culture than to break bread with the locals?” 

Overtourism and undertourism As the issue of overtourism has risen, Trafalgar has joined the quest to try to find better ways to deal with the problems of too many people at some tourist sites while others are crying out for more.

“We’re really trying to address that,” said da Silva. “It came out in a lot of our research that people are concerned that the place where they were going was not going to be a pleasant experience because it would be overcrowded, or that it was not going to be authentic because it would be too touristy. So, we’re trying to address that in different ways.”

Trafalgar is designing and scheduling itineraries to spread people out both geographically and on the calendar.

“When we’re building itineraries in the places where people are always going to want to go, we want to make sure we’re going year-round so we’re not only bringing visitors into those places in the peak seasons,” said da Silva. “We need to make sure the places that we visit are positively impacted by what we do.”

It’s a balancing act because tourism is generally a positive influence economically, but it can be too concentrated.

“We know the tourism dollar is a powerful and important driver of economies, but it needs to be used in the right way,” said da Silva. “So, we need to make sure that we’re giving back to the locals in those communities, using local restaurants, guides and hotels, so the dollars stay in those places.

“We’re also stretching those dollars out throughout the course of the year rather than dumping them all during a short period, which makes it more of a sustainable model. We need to make sure that we’re dispersing our guests, going beyond the icons and into the secondary and tertiary cities, making sure those places are also benefitting from those tourism dollars.” 

Sustainability The issue of overtourism is part of the overarching issue of sustainability. Once a fringe issue, sustainability has moved into the mainstream of travel.

“Sustainability is about making sure that the places we visit are going to be there for generations to come, to be explored and enjoyed by future generations,” said da Silva. “What that means is that we’re making sure that the money we spend at the destination goes back into the local economy.

“And it’s also about respecting heritage and culture and way of life, not going in and saying, ‘The way I am in my home is the way want to be when I travel.’ But rather, to try to understand what it’s really like to be in that destination, enjoying local foods that are cooked by local people, doing activities that are enjoyed by the locals, being taken around by someone who grew up in that city, so they understand what it’s like.”

The deep connections that people are seeking when they travel today require insider access.

“That connectivity and those shared experiences are what make guided vacations so special,” said da Silva. “We are able to connect with our guests, which is more difficult if you’re traveling on your own.” 

New tours and destinations Trafalgar continues to upgrade its product line, both adding new tours and new destinations and continually reinventing its perennial favorites. Among several new tours for 2020 is Trafalgar’s first trip to the former Soviet Republics of Georgia and Armenia, an area still untouched by most mainstream tour operators.

“Anyone who has been to that part of the world can attest to how gorgeous it is,” said da Silva. “Georgia has the oldest known winery in the world. They are known for their wine. We’ve got some really beautiful experiences throughout that region.”

One of Trafalgar’s most unusual new offerings this year is in the domestic U.S. “It’s called ‘Southwest Native Trails,’” said da Silva. “It goes through Native American reservations in New Mexico with a local specialist. We are highlighting what life is like on the reservation.”

The itinerary includes visits to some of the longest-inhabited cliff dwellings in America. “We get to go up into the dwellings,” said da Silva, “up ladders and down stairs and to really understand what it’s like to live there on daily basis. It’s really fascinating. They are ancient cultures that are highly sophisticated, and you get to see a lot of what they were doing before we came in and settled in America.

Trafalgar is also introducing new tours this year to Colombia, Namibia and Tasmania.

The company also launched a new travel style this year: Active Travel. The new style has been introduced on two trips: The new tour of Tasmania, and one called “Utah’s Mighty Five” that explores national parks of the American West.

“It was one of those trips that we saw a need for,” said da Silva. “As we continue to evolve our product, we are attracting new and different guests who want to have different activities and experiences. They don’t necessarily want to enjoy it from a distance, they want to be in the park, and the only way to do that is by doing some amazing hikes. So, we launched that and it’s doing fantastically well.”

The renaissance of authentic travel has put a challenge in the hands of product designers, and it has also set their imaginations free.

“A lot of the evolution of these products and trips is driven by the people who are developing these trips,” said da Silva. “It’s their enthusiasm, excitement and love of their own countries where they live. It’s been really exciting to see them let loose to go off and create these trips that they themselves would want to do. And it’s really translating into things that our guests are going to be so excited to experience.”

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Trafalgar and Sister Brands Expand Into Southern and Eastern Africa

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The Travel Corp. is taking three of its core brands to Africa for the first time. It’s a savvy move, leveraging the local knowledge and infrastructure of its sister companies on the continent, with the feel-good upside of boosting inbound tourism to Africa.

With 29 brands operating across 70 countries, The Travel Corp.  is expanding into southern and eastern Africa, launching itineraries for three of its key brands.

While already active in Egypt and Morocco, Trafalgar, Contiki, and Luxury Gold will offer starting in 2019 a range of multi-day escorted vacations to South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Botswana.

The Travel Corp. has obviously seen a gap in the market, but the company also has loftier goals, said Gavin Tollman, former president of the parent company and current CEO of Trafalgar .

Mindful of the impact the drought in southern Africa has had on the tourism industry, “We made a decision that, instead of just talking about it, we wanted to be a more impactful driver of tourism into the region,” said Tollman. “These are our three core brands, and it made sense for us to start with these to ensure that we could have the necessary impact.”

The Travel Corp. already has a foot in the door when it comes to ground operations on the continent: The company is wholly owned by the Tollman family, who in April took over sole ownership of South Africa’s Cullinan Holdings .

Founded in 1978 as an outbound wholesaler, Cullinan Holdings — of which Gavin Tollman has been chairman since 2014 — has since grown into a multifaceted tourism business with retail travel agencies, coach operations, outbound wholesaling, and inbound destination management companies in the fold.

While the three Travel Corp. brands will each offer their own African itineraries, on-the-ground logistics will be handled by one of the local partners. However, the service and product offering will be comparable to Travel Corp. products elsewhere in the world, said Tollman. Local guides will spend time shadowing tour directors in Europe in October, and key elements of the international product offering will remain.

Trafalgar’s popular “Be My Guest” inclusion, for instance, sees clients enjoying dinner with the family owners of a wine farm near Cape Town, while social impact visits range from Himba villages in Namibia to the Shangilia Children’s Home outside Nairobi.

“We want each brand in Africa to be able to put its individual stamp on what it’s trying to achieve, but at the same time remaining true to the core of the brand promise. Having a sales and operating office in South Africa has allowed us to really fine-tune the experiences to ensure they are aligned with each brand,” said Tollman.

The Contiki tour offering, managed on the ground by Springbok Atlas, could certainly shake up the millennial travel market in Africa . While many youth travel companies in the region focus on camping expeditions and cut-price adventures, the Contiki itineraries offer small-group options that tap into mid-market safari lodges, and extension trips including beach resorts on Zanzibar and (pricey) gorilla trekking in Uganda.

Although the new itineraries have only been actively marketed in Australia and the United States, the new tours are already seeing firm demand from travelers.

“We are pacing 30 percent ahead of where I thought we would be,” said Tollman. “We’ve only been in the market for three months, and we haven’t yet hit our peak booking season. One trip over Christmas is already sold out, and we have a few in the game reserves in August and September next year, which are already sold out.”

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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The NatCar brand is also mentioned in the recruitment ads of National Carrier, which is actively looking for E-class drivers. It is offering working with this year's model Kamaz diesel trucks from the flagship K5 line and new dry goods (curtainsider) and refrigerated trailers.

National Carrier was founded on July 7 in Moscow with charter capital of 1 billion rubles, the Unified State Register of Legal Entities showed. The company registered two branches in early August, in Yekaterinburg and Elektrostal, Moscow Region. The company specializes in truck logistics and associated activities, including digitization processes.

A spokesman for National Carrier told Interfax earlier that the company plans to provide FTL trucking services using its own fleet, "as well as the resources of hired truckers." The company's fleet will initially consist of 400 semi-trailer trucks with a 50/50 ratio of curtainside to refrigerated trailers, and it plans to primarily operate on domestic routes, he said.

The company has preliminary agreements with major customers among marketplaces and retailers in the FMCG and DIY segments, the spokesman said. Strong demand for trucking services is expected toward the end of the year, so there is interest from customers, he said.

Kamaz marketing director Ashot Arutyunyan announced at the International Moscow Automotive Forum at the end of August that the truck maker was the principal investor in National Carrier. He did not comment on the new company's shareholder structure, but said it is a Kamaz startup.

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