Sealord

We have only done fifteen trips with Tauck, but I have witnessed what long days and hard work the TDs perform. If it is shown as a thirteen day trip, it is at least thirteen days of tips. They often … (View Post)

Beaten to death indeed. The base salary for a tour director is not high, so the tips are important. Many of the TDs do not live in the U.S., so the tax status of cash tips is a question. I do know th… (View Post)

That is perhaps a generous offer. If you read your contract(s) you might discover that they probably did not have to offer anything. What was behind door ‘B’? There is often an ‘either or’ in these s… (View Post)

Indeed. There is more than one tour of the Canadian Rockies, so some degree of specificity would be appropriate. For example, the “Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park” goes no where near Vanco… (View Post)

My early childhood was spent in Rockport and Gloucester on Cape Ann, and we spent our summers there every year until I went to college. They have an extremely short tourist season,, and as my father … (View Post)