Trafalgar Introduces ‘Travel Agent of the Year’ Award

Trafalgar celebrated its first annual Travel Agent Day yesterday (May 4) with a celebration for key partners in Toronto that featured the unveiling of the tour company’s “travel agent of the year” award.

Derek Winsor (pictured on the right), a TPI counsellor from St. John’s, Nfld., was presented with the “Big T” trophy, symbolizing the tour company, its parent corporation (The Travel Corporation), and its owners, the Tollman family.

Winsor spent three years organizing a battlefield tour of Europe that will take place this summer commemorating the 100th anniversary of the battle of Beaumont Hammel in France, in which the Newfoundland regiment played a key part. Approximately 150 people will take part in the custom tour, which will include special events and ceremonies honouring the event in which 736 of 801 Newfoundland soldiers were killed.

Trafalgar Canada president Wolf Paunic (l) saluted Winsor for his incredible effort in organizing the tour with Trafalgar, noting that the original concept involved a group of 800 with 18 coaches. He went on to say that Travel Agent Day will become an annual event for Trafalgar rotating through cities across Canada.

“We want our partners to know that we are their biggest cheerleaders,” Paunic said.