Travel World plans journeys all around the globe

Their journey is over, the 30 or 40 individuals who began out as strangers have had an opportunity to bond, and now a easy goodbye received’t do.

“They’re hugging and exchanging phone numbers, maybe making plans to have dinner together or to go on another trip together,” Matthew Kizis stated, describing a scene he’s witnessed greater than as soon as.

Kizis, who, with enterprise associate Alan Kline, co-owns the TravelWorld journey company, stated {couples}, buddies, and solo vacationers typically like to hitch a bunch for journeys starting from a “Treasures of Italy” tour to a seven-day journey down the Mississippi on a riverboat.

“Groups are 80% of our business,” Kizis stated in a phone interview, including that “98% of the time a representative or employee of TravelWorld is leading the group” to ensure the journey runs easily.

TravelWorld’s efforts to supply top-quality journeys to folks within the space have now resulted in its profitable the Travel Agency class within the Best of Lackawanna awards.

Of course, in order for you a visit for simply two folks, or possibly simply your loved ones, TravelWorld may help prepare that for you as nicely.

“We arrange trips all over the world,” he stated.

Recent Travel World excursions have taken folks to Venice, Florence and Rome; Las Vegas; the Bahamas; Yankee Stadium; Alaska; and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There was even a “Pizza Tour of Brooklyn.”

But ask Kizis about his favourite place, and he doesn’t hesitate to call a sunny, Mediterranean nation full of artwork, tradition and world-renowned meals.

“I’m an Italian citizen, and Italy means a lot to me. I have a lot of respect for the country,” he stated, including he completely enjoys main excursions to Italy and serving to different folks “fall in love with the country as much as I fell in love with it.”

Trips to the northern Italian lakes and the mountains and the Island of Capri promote out yr after yr, he stated.

The profitable, sold-out journeys are “a tribute to what John (Madden) and Debbie (Freas) built,” he stated, giving credit score to Travel World founder Debbie Freas and government vice chairman John Madden, who constructed up the enterprise over a number of years. “And it’s a tribute to what Alan and I are doing. It comes down to trust.”

Whether you’re a first-time traveler or seasoned, Kizis stated, Travel World “can alleviate the travel headaches and plan the trip from start to finish”.

His particular pleasure is “to see people who have never been out of the country” have their first worldwide journey, maybe “eating the Italian pasta, tasting the Italian wine, seeing an authentic Tuscan village.”

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