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Travel With A Cause
Inc Breaking the
back of poverty - every time a travel booking is made. |
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Who are We?
Our
Background: By law, all company profits go to developing countries such as Zambia, Fiji, India, South Africa, Colombia, and Cambodia and (from late 2009) to humanitarian and/or missions-based projects in Developed Nations like Australia and Italy too. So when you book through us you are assured that your travel booking means that someone somewhere in the world will have their life improved*. Our aid programs include: AIDS
education and AIDS-orphanage/fostering, Education, Disaster relief,
micro-economic development, school funding and freshwater well
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President & Jane Evans. |
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Jane has some 25 years experience in the travel industry and has enjoyed wide and acclaimed international experience. Jane is simply brilliant at pulling together those difficult international quotes that often will be ignored by other agents. Jane is well respected in the Tasmanian community and has won many awards for her work of excellence in the Travel Industry. Jane formed her own Travel Agency during the 1990's, drawing on her vast experience in both the domestic and international travel arenas. Despite running a number of different business ventures, Jane has decided to concentrate on breaking the back of poverty. To this end, she's committed to ensure that Travel With A Cause pours maximum profit into areas that will provide sustainable development in some of the world's most needy areas. Jane has travelled extensively and spent over 12 months living and studying in the USA & Canada before returning to her beloved homeland of Australia. Jane manages a select group of enthusiastic, energetic, committed and skilled travel consultants who can cater to virtually every conceivable travel requirement. Jane maintains a close 'hands on' approach to travel in order to ensure that her business continues to deliver excellence to her valued clients. More details on our team of consultants.
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Founding Board Members |
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Paul Evans |
Richard Parker |
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Paul enjoys extensive experience including training, business marketing and strategic planning. His career path has been diverse, providing high level policy advice to various government and non-government organisations as well as carrying replete experience in the arena of human services. Paul is an avid sportsman and his sporting achievements include: winning various state sailing championships, state representation on rugby union teams as well as being honoured with a runner-up title, Australian sailing championships. Paul can still occasionally be found at the helm of a 35 footer on the magnificent Derwent River. |
Richard has a strong motivation on his life to work for and in Africa. Richard has recently returned from Zambia and he is enthusiastically engineering several "Not for Profit" tours through Travel With A Cause and Australian Discount Travel & Tours which he believes will bring hope, community development and empowerment to the people of Zambia and other African countries. Richard has travelled to his beloved Zambia several times in the last 3 years and along with Paul has met with the Acting President of Zambia and most of the senior cabinet ministers & their Departmental Secretaries, to discuss issues pertaining to ameliorating poverty in Zambia. |
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Our philosophies and codes of conduct |
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Family: |
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We are a discount travel agency that is strongly committed to the utmost of care for our clients and a deep passion for family values & family activities (recreational, sporting and other). Ask us about our discount air travel, discount car hire, discount accommodation, discount travel insurance, and discount family tour packages. Please feel free to browse through our testimonials page to see what our clients are saying about us too. |
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Non-Discriminatory |
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We acknowledge the different paths that various individuals and cultures follow. We attempt at all times to show respect to and preserve the dignity of persons who herald from backgrounds with which our staff might not be familiar. Sometimes this means you might have to take the time to inform us of any special requirements that might impact on your travel itinerary so that we can cater to your specific needs. |
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Multicultural Issues: |
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We understand the need to retain flexibility and sensitivity to differing needs of various cultures. We already have language translators on our website and we are actively seeking staff who are fluent in different languages who also understand the cultures of different nations and peoples. We actively support various Migrant Resource Centres and welcome the opportunity to participate in different cultural activities. |
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Discrimination Issues & Unlawful Tour Requests: |
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We hold a deep respect for human life and as such we reserve the right to refuse sponsorship to organisations, clubs, schools or affiliations that have had complaints lodged against them under State and/or Commonwealth Anti-Discrimination Laws. We also reserve the right to refuse to offer travel assistance to persons who wish to undertake unlawful tours that might involve the abuse of children. |
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Seniors: |
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We fully support older persons/seniors in assisting with travel plans. We provide full travel insurance to mature age persons/seniors with no extra medical information required. We support Australian Probus Clubs and TPI pensioners throughout the world, offering discount travel deals to seniors and/or mature age travellers around the world. Ask us about our Seniors' Discount Tours, Senior Discount Travel Insurance and other valuable discount travel arrangements. We have created our exclusive Overseas Volunteer Travel Tours to provide an expansive opportunity for our senior clients to enjoy a wonderful travel itinerary while at the same time, assisting by visiting some of the projects that we sponsor. |
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We endorse youth travel & do our utmost to ensure that the potential for younger persons to travel is capable of being realised through the release of our discount air travel, discount accommodation, and travel insurance. |
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Respect: |
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We unswervingly adhere to a philosophy to respect deeply our clients, staff & travel partners irrespective of their philosophical, religious, social or spiritual paths. We afford this respect to all people and believe all persons have the right to tread these individual paths without fear of discrimination, harassment or (unlawful) impediment or restraint. |
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* Travel With A Cause Inc utilises the services of paid staff, consultants, and volunteers. By necessity, Travel With A Cause Inc reserves the right to enter into commercial agreements with various wholesalers, and specialists that by their nature are profit-making. Hence, when booking through this website the nature of our business relationships will mean that a proportion of your funds will go to profit-making companies and/or to pay our staff costs and other recurrent costs such as rental and other commercial activities. However, once company profits are finalised (after expenses) all profits by law go to developing countries. |
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International Air Transport Association (IATA) Number: 02362194 |
