The Travel Corporation
The Travel Corporation is a private hotel group and travel company based in Cypress, California, United States. Its brands include Trafalgar, Contiki, Insight, Cullinan, Uniworld River Cruises, Red Carnation Hotels, and others, along with Bouchard Finlayson Vineyards. Collectively, TTC’s portfolio operates in over 70 countries worldwide, carrying over 2 million travellers in 2019. In 2020 TTC celebrated its 100th anniversary. Internationally, TTC has become one of the largest, family owned and run business in the world. The company is wholly owned by members of the Tollman family, four generations of which are actively involved with the  business. The company traces its history to a small hotel outside Cape Town, South Africa, in the early 1900s. In 2008 TTC’s not-for-profit foundation was founded, today known as the TreadRight Foundation, for international project activation (as of 2021 donating over US$ 2.5 million to sustainable tourism projects worldwide), and traveller inspiration to ‘make travel matter’. Brands. The company owns the following tour operators, as of 2022: The company also owns Red Carnation Hotels, a luxury hotel group with hotels in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, South Africa, Guernsey and Switzerland. In August 2015, Ashford  Castle in Ireland was voted the world's best hotel by Virtuoso Travel Week, and third best world hotel in July 2015 by "Travel + Leisure" magazine in the U.S. The company also owns and operates transportation services in various locations. Transportation brands include AAT Kings and Atlas Reizen (based in the Netherlands). Other holdings include the Old Town amusement park in Florida and Bouchard Finlayson Winery in South Africa. The company's philosophy is to keep the brands separate with their own identity, serving their own niche markets, rather than trying to merge them all and ending up with  one brand without a distinct identity. Investments. The company is the largest shareholder of Cullinan Holdings Ltd, one of South Africa's oldest public companies, which owns household travel brands such as Thompsons Africa, Thompsons Holidays, Thompsons Touring & Safari, Springbok Atlas Tours and Safaris, Hylton Ross Tours, Planet Africa, Gateway Tours, and Pentravel, as well as marine businesses Manex and Central Boating.