Tourism Cares and UnTours Foundation Launch the Meaningful Travel Fund
Tourism Cares, a non-profit dedicated to advancing sustainability within the tourism industry, has partnered with the UnTours Foundation, the impact investment arm of UnTours—the world’s first Certified B Corporation—to launch the Meaningful Travel Fund. This innovative financing opportunity will provide affordable capital to small, purpose-driven tourism businesses worldwide, empowering them to scale their efforts in […]
Black History Month Spotlight: UnTours Foundation Investees Changing the World
At the UnTours Foundation, Black History Month is a time to celebrate the innovation, resilience, and impact of Black entrepreneurs who are transforming their industries and uplifting their communities. For over three decades, the UnTours Foundation has proudly invested in founders who use their creativity, talent, and commitment to justice to build businesses that drive […]
UnTours Foundation Announces Partnership with Agoda and WWF-Singapore to Launch Sustainable Tourism Impact Fund
“We believe that the future of tourism must be more sustainable and community-focused, and we need to elevate businesses showing the world what it looks like to create positive impact in destinations where land, life, and tourism meet. The Sustainable Tourism Impact Fund provides flexible and affordable investment capital to help those leading businesses grow […]
UnTours Foundation Awarded 2024 Expedia Made to Travel™ Fund Grant
This Giving Tuesday, we’re proud to announce that the UnTours Foundation has been chosen as a 2024 grantee of the Expedia Made to Travel Fund. Committed to making travel more inclusive and accessible, the Made to Travel Fund removes barriers to travel globally for underserved and underrepresented communities. To learn more, visit www.madetotravelfund.com In light of […]
Reset Tourism Fund Raises $1.5M, and Invests in 30 Changemaking Tourism Businesses
We are thrilled to announce that our Reset Tourism Fund has surpassed its Phase One fundraising goal, raising $1.5 million from a coalition of key partners in the travel industry to support changemaking small tourism businesses. Together, these funding partners enable the Reset Tourism Fund to provide access to the kind of flexible and affordable […]
A Strange Gifting: A Reminder of the Importance of the Fair Trade Movement
Untours and the Untours Foundation often receive interesting gifts. Owning a global travel company and investing the profits to support impact-focused businesses around the world lends itself to meeting new friends who love to share a piece of their homeland or culture with us – local culinary delicacies, countless bottles of local spirits or wines, […]
Be like Hal. – Following Hal Taussig’s Example in Estate Planning
We wish you could be a fly on the wall at our board meetings – they are anything but Roberts-Rules events. Everything at this Foundation is unique, productive, and outside of any box I’ve ever known. When Hal and Norma Taussig were with us, the board spent a fair amount of time on transition planning. […]
Jon Blum (1934 – 2022), Consultant Extraordinaire
Remembering Jon Blum by Elizabeth Killough Jon was an extrovert’s extrovert and worked with me to find, examine, invest in, and support awesome entrepreneurs with world enhancing businesses. We often disagreed – more often than not actually! – which was part of the fun with Jon. He loved a good debate, and respected his […]
2021 Year in Review: Some Good News
We’ve finally made it to 2022! The pandemic finally passed and the world is opening up…oh wait…that is how it was supposed to work, but alas, it hasn’t come to pass. The dog days of the pandemic have turned into a groundhog day of repeated cycles – a light at the end of the tunnel […]
Help Us Yodel in Progress
When traveling, one meets interesting people. When traveling with Untours, the interesting people meet you. They pick you up from the airport, point you toward hidden treasures that only locals know about, and take you on a weekly adventure. When traveling with Untours in Switzerland, you meet Urs (photographed above, next to Jonathan). Urs leads […]
