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It’s all about the experience – Brand Manager Joanne Gardner


While on the development trip for our new-for-2012 Indochina: Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos, Brand Manager Joanne Gardner had one amazing experience after the other throughout the three countries. She reflects on one of the most memorable, in Laos: “One of the ways to make merit in Buddhism is to give alms to the monks. Every morning at sunrise they participate in a very regimented ritual of receiving food given to them from family and neighbors. Anyone can participate in this ceremony – but you must get up very early, find a suitable spot on the street and observe proper etiquette. As a woman, I was told I must always keep my head lower than the monks, and my feet should always be bare, but never pointed at anyone, and shoulders and knees must be covered. It was a beautiful morning the day I participated; as the sun began to rise, Tauck Director Tom Olinyk and I heard the faint sound of music and chanting in the distance and then began to see the parade of brightly orange-clothed monks appear for their daily food. We nervously followed the rules we were told as one by one we handed them sticky rice, bananas and candies – and for a brief moment, became a part of the community. It was an experience that I will always remember.”


6 Oooh la la... the Riviera...


Joyce Williams and Michele Petrucciano, Friends and Family Specialists in our Group Sales Department, spent five nights at Fairmont Monte Carlo experiencing the pleasures of VIP living along the Riviera. They report that the cuisine was superb, the sightseeing fantastic, and the modes of travel divine...


Winter in Yellowstone


Tauck President Jennifer Tombaugh and a team of tour architects, including filmmaker Dayton Duncan, traveled to Yellowstone National Park last winter to craft new wintertime experiences for 2012. The weather was cold, but the ideas were “hot”! And the end product? Two new trips: a new Ken Burns Event next January, The Tauck Winter in Yellowstone Event, and a new Culturious small group trip in January and February, Wonderland: Yellowstone in Winter.


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