Vacation Express Corporate Profile

Vacation Express, part of Sunwing Travel Group, Inc., has been in existence since 1989 and is the largest tour operator in the southeast United States, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. The company specializes in travel packages to Mexico, Costa Rica and the Caribbean with hotel only and air/land package options available. The company offers an extensive product portfolio that includes some of the world's leading hotel brands, with a focus on the all-inclusive vacation experience.

In addition to Vacation Express, Sunwing Travel Group, Inc. brands include the following:

  1. Sunwing Vacations - the leading, integrated leisure tour operator in Canada offering value-added holiday packages from Canada to the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, Europe and USA. Sunwing Airlines, Canada's premier leisure airline, is a full service airline providing "high frills" leisure class service at a low cost.
  2. SellOffVacations – retail division offering discount flights, vacation packages, cruises, coach tours, hotels, car rentals, and more, with preferred partnerships with all major travel providers including tour operators, airlines, hotel chains, car rental, and bus tour companies.
  3. Signature Vacations - one of Canada's leading tour operators for luxury package vacations with over 150 hotels and resorts, most of which are all-inclusive, in destinations throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
  4. Thomson Holidays - a giant U.K.-based tour operator, in business for over 45 years, offering a wide range of worldwide holiday travel options, many exclusive to Thomson.
  5. Blue Diamond Hotels & Resorts - provides unique and differentiated hotel products, each aimed at different segments of the market with multiple consumer brands. The current portfolio includes five all-inclusive Memories Beach Resorts in Cuba and the all-inclusive Royalton Panama Luxury Resort in Panama.
  6. Memories Beach Resorts - a subsidiary of hotel management company, Blue Diamond Hotels & Resorts, five Memories beachfront resorts located in Cuba offer all-inclusive vacation experiences for every type of guest.
  7. Royalton Luxury Resorts – a subsidiary of hotel management company, Blue Diamond Hotels & Resorts, Royalton’s All-in Luxury® concept is devoted to providing the sophisticated traveler with a unique up-market, all-inclusive experience, combining the soul of its host community with a luxury product, exceptional service and incredible attention to detail.

Vacation Express delivers consumers and travel agents convenient, user-friendly online and personal call center booking options, provides exceptional value in vacation package travel, drives business to its extensive network of high profile travel suppliers, including hotels, ground operators and airlines, and provides travel agents with competitively positioned commission plans, plus a unique program of incentives and rewards. Vacation Express also powers bookings for hundreds of active travel agency affiliates.

Our mission is to provide value and exceptional service to our customer base, while building a reputation as a leading national tour operator to Mexico, Costa Rica and the Caribbean.

Collectively, the Sunwing Travel Group, Inc. brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking leisure travel, from its award-winning Sunwing Airlines, available from major gateway cities in Canada and the Southeastern U.S., to the negotiation of the most competitive hotel rates in the industry, arranging optional tours in destination once clients arrive, providing expertise with booking special events and group travel, and post-travel customer service.

The Vacation Express portfolio serves leisure travelers with varying interests and budgets ranging from modest to luxury and from family-friendly to adults only. Vacation Express serves consumer travel demand from the U.S. to hundreds of hotels, destination services partners, and most major airlines, including Sunwing Airlines, owned by parent company, Sunwing Travel Group, Inc. By capitalizing on the synergies afforded by the Sunwing Travel Group, complemented by a hands-on executive team, Vacation Express is positioned to become the U.S. consumer’s choice for tropical destination vacations.

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