GLOSSARY OF SLOVENE - AMERICAN RELATIONS

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Kollander World Travel agency is one of the oldest family owned travel business in the greater Cleveland area and one of the oldest in North America. It was established in 1923 by August Kollander, a Slovene who left for the United States in 1912. Major charter tours to Slovenia began in 1959 with the first flight for a large group of Slovene Americans, which was soon followed by many others.

Kollander World Travel- 75 Years in Business

The first thought of numerous American Slovenes who decide to travel to Slovenia or to Europe in general is often of the Kollander World Travel agency in Cleveland, Ohio. This isn't the only agency which takes Americans to the Old Country, but it is certainly an agency which has a quite enviable tradition and which has won respect with its good service.
The agency was established by August Kollander, born in the small village of Studenice near Poljeane in Slovene ©tajerska (Styria).

August Kollander arrived in the United States in 1912. In 1923 he opened his own travel agency, which was based for many years at the Slovene National Home on St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland.

In the decade before WWII the agency confirmed its reputation among American Slovenes by organizing everything necessary to contact relatives who had remained in the homeland. During WWII, trips to the homeland stopped almost completely, and therefore the desire for real direct contacts between American Slovenes and their native Slovenia was much greater in the first postwar years.

His work continued under the direction of his adopted son, August Jr.

Major charter tours to Slovenia began in 1959 with the first flight for a large group of Slovene Americans which was soon followed by many others.

In 1966 the agency, then officially known as Kollander World Travel moved at the very center of the newer Slovene community in the east of Cleveland. The agency expanded its circle of friends through music, the Slovene polka, which Tony Petkovsek spread so enthusiastically among fellow countrymen. The agency soon began to arrange group tours accompanied by at least one band: these popular "polka Tours".

Today Kollander World Travel offers a broad array of all the aspects of travel. Kollander has a special association with the Woodside Travel Trust, a well-known consortium of 130 travel agencies operating in 4000 locations.


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