About TRAVELBOECKER
Welcome to Our Website!
TRAVELBOECKER takes pride in planning journeys that take you on voyages of discovery, adventure, culture and pleasure.
TRAVELBOECKER offers vacations for travellers with a sense of adventure who enjoy discovering people, places and animals that are different from those at home.
At TRAVELBOECKER we know about these vacations! We believe in a gentle kind of tourism, at the same time offering value for money and peace of mind.
33 years ago Chris entered her uncle's Travel Agency as a travel agent apprentice - not knowing Sydney, N.S. from Sydney N.S.W. Ever since then Chris has been driven to explore the wonderful world we live in, from the dry and hot Kalahari Desert to the cold and windy Beechey Island in the Arctic, where 4 members of the Franklin expedition perished 150 years ago -- and many memorable places in between!
"I cannot rest from travel, I will drink life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed greatly..."
Tennyson (Ulysees)
Chris Boecker C.T.C. (Certified Travel Counselor) was born in South Africa, lived in Europe, has settled in Vancouver, B.C. and speaks English, German and Afrikaans. Chris has travelled extensively throughout Europe, explored much of the African Continent, journeyed through Asia and South America, discovered the hidden treasures of Mexico, Alaska and Eastern Canada
and also travelled on a Russian Icebreaker across the Arctic Sea to Greenland.
Experienced in all aspects of the travel agency, her first-hand travel knowledge and attention to detail combined will create a trip you’ll talk about – at home, at work and with your friends – for a very long time!
The name TRAVELBOECKER is a derived from the profession and last name of the owner. Sometimes it is spelled incorrectly as travelboeker.com. But whether it is written as Boeker or as Boecker with the 'c' - it is pronounced like travelbooker.com, which is effectively what we are and what we do best!
Chris Boecker enjoys getting involved in the community and is the director of marketing for German Kids Richmond, a language school dedicated to keeping the German language and culture alive in our children.
Chris also sponsors
Richmond Ringette, SOS Children’s Village, Hoops for Hope and the Canadian Network for International Surgery, as well as community events such as the annual Steveston Salmon Festival. Chris volunteered on the organizing committee of the Steveston Farmers & Artisan Market, chaired the South African Business Network Group and was membership director for the German Canadian Business Association.
In her spare time Chris is a Parent Educator for the Neufeld Institute,
offering parents a new, yet intuitive way to make sense of their children.
TRAVELBOECKER is a member of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Being associated with Personal Travel Management Ltd. - a B.C. registered, licensed & bonded Travel Agency keeps your travel dollars safe and insured, in case of an unforseen closure of airlines or tour operators. PTM also belongs to several industry associations, such as ACTA - the Association of Canadian Travel Agents and the Ensemble Group (a network of 2000 independent travel agencies), which gives us the buying power, networking ability and other advantages of the larger chains, while retaining the personal contact and hands-on approach.
The TRAVELBOECKER Privacy Statement:
“Whether you are a TRAVELBOECKER client or a subscriber to our
TRAVELBOECKER e-News, we will not knowingly reveal, rent or otherwise
make available any e-mail address to third parties.”
Chris Boecker, TRAVELBOECKER
At TRAVELBOECKER, we are concerned about your privacy.
Keeping the privacy and earning and retaining the trust of our customers is our mantra. Thus, we have written this pledge to inform you about our privacy practices.
We want to provide you with information about travel, specific trips, and other offers that are best suited to your needs. To do this, we sometimes ask you to provide personal information to us. Our philosophy is that you should have control over what kind of information you provide to us and how we use this information. Please take the time to review our privacy pledge and understand what we do and don't do with data that we collect from you.
Personal and Demographic Data collected by TRAVELBOECKER
TRAVELBOECKER asks for your name, e-mail address and phone number when you send a request for information. During subsequent correspondence, TRAVELBOECKER may ask for other personal data, such as interests (including favorite activity and destination), address and birth date. If you express interest in booking a trip by either calling us or by filling out a form on our site, we will ask when you plan to travel, where you want to travel, what you want to do while traveling, how many people you want to travel with, where your trip will originate, and whether you require air tickets. We will also ask for a daytime phone number in case you want to be called by our travel specialist.
TRAVELBOECKER uses this information to provide you with personalized travel services and to direct you to offers from us or selected partners that would appeal to you. If you purchase a product or service from TRAVELBOECKER, you will be asked to provide an address, phone number, and possibly a credit card number. TRAVELBOECKER collects this information only to complete the purchase transaction. This does not apply to purchases made on sites linked to TRAVELBOECKER.
E-mail
TRAVELBOECKER will not send you any e-mail you do not wish to receive. If, for any reason you would like to discontinue receiving our newsletters, you may send an email to info@travelboecker.com with *unsubscribe* in the subject line. If you ever have a problem with your subscription, contact chris@travelboecker.com or call 604.338.9211.
Changes in Privacy Pledge
As the nature of our business changes, TRAVELBOECKER may need to change its privacy pledge. If the pledge is changed, this page will be updated. You will not be provided with any other notice of a change in the privacy pledge. Please check this page to see if there have been any changes.
Questions? Concerns?
Please contact Chris Boecker at chris@travelboecker.com or call 604.338.9211.
