Who We Are

World Travel was founded in 1983 by Festivals of Music. This company provides educational music tours to Junior/Senior High Schools. Recognizing the importance of transporting students around the globe World Travel became a reality. We have been conducting business under the same ownership as a privately held corporation since its inception. The company's structure is broken down into three operating units, 80% corporate travel, 10% group travel, and 10% vacation travel and each unit is headed by a Director.

The driving force behind our success is President, James A. Wells, Senior Vice President, Liz Mandarino, and a highly service oriented, experienced senior management staff. Since 1983, World Travel has grown from a one office $500,000 company to our present size of six reservation centers, seventy-five plus in-house branch offices, ninety-two additional ticket locations throughout the United States, and total sales representing approximately $450 million. During this time period our staff has increased concurrently from 2 to 377 dedicated travel professionals of which 284 are reservationists.

World Travel holds appointments from (ARC), Airline Reporting Corporation, (IATA), International Air Transport Association, as well as many other well known associations such as (ASTA) American Society of Travel Agents, (CLIA) Cruise Lines International Association and (PATA), Pacific Asia Travel Association.

World Travel is a dynamic organization of innovative professionals who share a common goal: to be the best, most responsive travel management provider in the industry, sensitive to both cost containment and service levels. Our best client partnerships value quality and understand the cost to deliver high service levels.

• Over 75 Onsite Client Locations Nationwide
• Global Travel Management Capabilities
• 4900 International Affiliate Locations