TTC 100
From our generations to yours
Our First 100
Years in Travel
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While 2020 was a terribly difficult year for travel, it turned out to be a good year for reflection. For those of us at The Travel Corporation, that meant looking back over our first hundred years, to August of 1920 – just after the last pandemic – when Solomon Tollman opened a tiny hotel on the coast of South Africa and began our family business. Throughout this past year we observed this anniversary by sharing stories from our first century through monthly guest blog postings and videos.
Now, as the world begins to reopen and you plan future travel, we invite you to explore our past through the links below. Whether you are new to TTC or one of our beloved guests, these tales will give you a sense of who we are, the values that guide us, and why we do what we do.
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1920
Solomon Tollman opens The Paternoster Hotel in a sleepy fishing village on the west coast of South Africa. After escaping the Czarist oppression in Lithuania – smuggled by train and and sailing in the hull of a ship – he gives travelers the welcome he had never known, introducing the family creed “Driven by Service.”
2010
Bea Tollman, whose recipes are so beloved at Red Carnation Hotels and on Uniworld’s Ships, publishes her all-time-favorite Recipes in ‘A Life in Food’.
2012
Stanley Tollman publishes his memoir, ‘Recollections of a Lucky Man’. The cover image shows Stanley, age 3, at The Paternoster Hotel.
2013
Brett Tollman is featured in the book ‘I Am Eco Warrior; From the Frontlines to the Sustainability Revolution’.


our 100 year stories
JULY
International Friendship Day
AUGUST
TTC’s 100th Birthday
SEPTEMBER
World Tourism Day
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