Foster Deeper, More Enduring Connections

Human history is rich with tales of globe trekkers who have gained valuable insight about themselves and the world around them through the discovery and exploration of cultures outside their own. The exploration, excitement and adventure of world travel are transforming lives everyday.

Illume brings families and friends together in places around the world to create their own history, strengthening bonds of compassion and respect along the way. As groups travel together, they celebrate their common heritage and traditions while learning about others. Perspectives are broadened. As people return home, stories are shared, inspiring a heritage of memories and events for future generations to inherit and preserve.

Successful journeys begin with a dream

Exciting journeys begin with a dream of bringing together a group of fun and interesing people - friends and family - to experience places of unsurpassed beauty, history and culture together. Illume designs journeys around the interests of your group. We begin with your palette and sketch out a program you can't find anywhere else.

Group leaders want a vacation, too

You have a great idea, but the last thing you want is to become the "person-in-charge," managing the logistics, personalities and the arrangements for your event. Illume manages the services for you - from the initial proposal to registration and to all the activities and features you have incorporated into your event. A full-time professional local tour manager will be selected for your group - traveling with you so that all of the pieces of your program come together seamlessly.

Opening local doors to new friends

We travel the world to leave the familiar and gain valuable perspectives and insights into other lands, peoples, and cultures. The best journeys are accompanied by an expert who makes local introductions, facilitates entrance to restricted sites, opens our eyes to see art, architecture, religion, history and customs in new ways. Illume has a 30-year successful history of linking people and places through meaningful engagement with destination communities.

Venues
Successful journeys for friends and families include leisure time in inspiring settings with scheduled activities that stimulate the mind and nurture the soul. Illume balances historical and cultural visits with opportunities for your family and friends to linger over good food overlooking picturesque vineyards, enchanting neighborhoods, alpine valleys, or cystalline blue seascapes.

Some unique venues include:

- Family heritage programs to places around the world (traveling to the origins of your family,
visiting with local relatives and townspeople, and learning about customs, food, and family stories)
- Archaeology, art and sea - the Amalfi Coast
- The heritage of three faiths in southern Spain
- Ars et Panis - the food and art of Tuscany, Emiglia Romagna and other regions of Italy
- Great capitals of art and history - Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and St. Petersburg
- Ski holidays in the Swiss, Austrian, French and Italian Alps
- Cooking vacations and wine tours
- Chartered cruises to places of great historical, artistic or geographical interest

With groups of 20 or more, Illume is able to provide customized program design and a fully-escorted professionally managed program for rates that are competitive with individual retail costs and non-customized commercial group tours.

Contact us with ideas you have for a program or to request sample programs developed for other groups of family and friends or members of organizations.

The way we travel the world is always changing but the reasons remain constant - to become citizens of the world, leading and inspiring respectful and compassionate ways of life. People who travel the globe begin a lifelong journey of worldly citizenship to gain valuable insight about themselves and the world around them through the discovery and exploration of cultures outside their own.