5 Reasons to Vote for Big Five in Travel+Leisure’s 2015 Awards

Below are five reasons to vote for us in Travel+Leisure’s 2015 World’s Best Awards.  As our partners and loyal guests, you have always been so generous with your support. We hope you will take a moment to cast your vote for us in the category of Tour Operators & Safari Outfitters.

1. Your Dreams are Our Dreams
   While others may try to sell you what they have, we create what you want. We understand that a trip-of-a-Lifetime is so much more than a transaction, a sale. You need and deserve a team on your side is willing to go to the next level to make your priceless travel visions become reality. Explore www.bigfive.com to begin your adventure.
2. Our award-winning Destination Specialists
   Our Destination Specialists receive some 900 hours of in-house and on-site training annually; and have been recognized for their expertise, including several who have been on Travel+Leisure magazine’s “A-List: World’s Top Travel Agents” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Discover journeys that they created that speak to their hearts and enthusiasms in Inspired Expeditions.
3. White Glove Service® Guest Assistance
   Our premier customer service is designed to provide a personal experience that begins with a live person answering each call promptly during business hours. Our WGS® guest assistance desk is manned by a team of specialists available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from anywhere in the world. WGS® is your personal concierge service for anything from dinner reservations to lost luggage to emergency medical evacuation. White Glove Service® for more details.
4. Embracing the Next Generation
   Big Five’s new Precious Journeys collection helps kids explore the world – both its awesomeness and its challenges. They meet fascinating people working on real-world solutions, and experience the sustainability movement on a global basis. They learn about the trials facing Africa’s wildlife by visiting an orphanage for elephants and rhinos in Kenya; see what it takes to be an organic farmer in Costa Rica by helping pick coffee beans; and learn how to be a ranger in India’s tiger parks. These journeys are Designed for Kids by Kids at Heart .
5. Exclusive Access with Sustainability
   We work with and support organizations and entities that, like us, actively pursue sustainable goals. Through this, our clients benefit by gaining exclusive access to places and people not usually available to the general public in destinations including in Cambodia, Ecuador, Peru, Kenya, Guatemala and India. For example, we recently gave a grant for an anti-poaching patrol in northern Kenya to protect critically endangered rhinos. Our guests visiting there can see firsthand the work being done. Visit our nonprofit Spirit of Big Five Foundation for more about our projects.

Thank you in advance for your continued support.