Our UnTours Photo Contest was such a success last year, we have decided to keep it going. Please help us choose a winner for 2019! We’ve narrowed it down to the 12 finalists you see here. The winner will receive a free iPad. Take a look at the competition and vote for your favorite on…
Ellen Peters has been part of the UnTours family for 17 years, working in our US office. If you have called the office you may have spoken with her, but only briefly as she passed your call. Ellen is our accounting director, so when all goes well, our guests never talk to her. Yet our…
Branding is a dirty word to a lot of us here in the UnTours office. Or rather, it is a sort of necessary evil, as our late founder Hal Taussig might have said. We have a natural resistance to anything that could be perceived as slick. After all, we are a mom-and-pop type operation, many…
Years before our big presence on Facebook and other social media, we set up an email listserv for travelers called Idyllchat. It became a community of friends who shared a love of travel, many of them UnTourists, sharing advice on UnTours and lots of other travel options. It continues today and has had a flutter…
On Wednesday the Vatican announced plans to replace all motorized vehicles in Vatican City with electric cars by 2017. It is part of a larger plan to make Vatican City carbon neutral by 2024. Tesla will partner with the Vatican to produce modified electric vehicles to replace those driven by guards and officials. The…
We send all of our best wishes to our extended UnTours family! May you have a fun, happy, and meaningful holiday full of all the best things. And may 2016 bring us peace and good fortune. All the best from our family to yours! Click so we can carol to you!
Happy Birthday to us! It is hard to believe we have been around for 40 years. So much has changed in the world in that time, but one thing remains true: Those who seek cross-cultural understanding and honest, earnest experiences in the heart of the culture are richly rewarded as travelers. We are proud to…
In celebration of our 40th anniversary, we’ve busted out the old photo albums and are scanning our hearts out to bring you some of our favorite photo memories from the early days here at UnTours. Take a peek at some of the gems we’ve found in the backs of our closets and file cabinets. It…
Our own Sue Baker is an outstanding colleague and person. She’s worked for UnTours for 15 years. Most of that time was spent on the Italian Team, where she helped direct our program expansion. Her research helped us map out our programs in the Amalfi Coast, Rome, and Florence. In fact, her early reading pointed…
Although we don’t have a Philadelphia UnTour, we have a soft place in our heart for the big city next door. Take a look at this amazing timelapse of Philadelphia, painstakingly crafted by photographer Nathaniel Dodson. I hope you like it! Here’s the link to the original video, by Nathaniel Dodson.