Three years before the curtain rises on Oberammergau’s 2020 Passion Play, and two years after beginning preparations for this once-every-decade spectacle, Tauck has begun taking reservations on several 2020 itineraries that will feature Passion Play performances in the small Bavarian town. (more…)

Tauck will be setting sail this holiday season along the Rhine and Danube, visiting some of the most popular Christmas markets. The luxury tour operator is offering two separate eight-day river cruises this year. Stops along the way include Nürnberg, Vienna, Strasbourg, Aachen, and more. (travelagentcentral.com)

Tauck, the 92-year-old leader in upscale guided travel, has announced its European river cruising plans for 2018, and the coming year will see the launch of two all-new cruise itineraries, the debut of two radically redesigned ships, and added enhancements to the shore excursions featured fleet-wide. (more…)

Tauck officially welcomed the MS Sapphire back into its riverboat fleet in Paris, France, following a massive renovation of the ship’s interior spaces. The Sapphire is the first of Tauck’s four 110-meter ships to complete the transformation process. (travelagentcentral.com)

Tauck family members, company executives, travel agents and special guests gathered in Straubing, Germany, yesterday (June 22), to welcome the new ms Joy into Tauck’s fleet of European riverboats. (more…)

With Tauck’s ms Joy set to join its fleet of European riverboats this month, the company has announced that three of its long-time employees will share duties as the new vessel’s godmothers during its christening ceremony in Vienna on June 21. (more…)

In a ceremony replete with the tunes of a marching band, speeches from local dignitaries, and the traditional smashing of champagne, Tauck family members and executives joined with selected partner-suppliers and travel agents to celebrate the christening of the new ms Grace riverboat in Maastricht, the Netherlands yesterday (April 3). (more…)

After pioneering the first family-specific river cruises with an itinerary on the Danube in 2010, and after expanding with new family cruises on the Rhone and Rhine in subsequent years, Tauck is set to continue its leadership in the category in 2017 when it introduces a fourth family river cruise on a fourth European river. (more…)

Tauck has announced a sweeping plan to reconfigure more than half of its European river cruising fleet over the next two years. (more…)

Tauck has announced its 2016 solo traveler savings, and the company has again eliminated the single supplement on its Category 1 European riverboat cabins. (more…)

Tauck will be adding a fourth river cruise designed specifically for families to its collection of Tauck Bridges family journeys in 2017, as the company boosts its family river cruise departures from 10 next year to 20 in 2017 and doubles its total family river cruising capacity. (more…)

Since the 2007 launch of its Street View project to catalog 360-degree panoramic images from locations around the world, the team at Google has driven more than seven million miles, visited 66 countries and traveled to both Antarctica and the Arctic. (more…)

Tauck has unveiled its 2016 river cruising plans, and next year the company will be debuting two new ships, a new itinerary along the Rhine and a number of new Tauck-exclusive onshore dining experiences – all at prices up to $1,200 per-couple lower than their 2015 rates. (more…)

Tauck has announced that it will be extending its Take Off with Tauck air package through March 31, 2015. The program simplifies airfares to Europe and was set to expire at the end of February.

Tauck has announced the names of the two new Inspiration-class river vessels that will join its European fleet in 2016. (cruisecritic.com)

Tauck has announced its 2015 solo traveler savings, and the company has again eliminated the single supplement on its Category 1 European riverboat cabins.

Tauck started in river cruising in the early 1990s, at that time using chartered boats. In 2006 Tauck launched its first river cruiser the ms Emerald. In 2014 the company has six. Next year the fleet will expand to seven. (travelpulse.com)

Tauck, which introduced two new river ships in Europe this year, will add three more vessels by 2016. (travelpulse.com)

Tauck christened its sixth European riverboat, the 130-passenger ms Savor, on June 21, under sunny skies against a backdrop of vineyards in the Rhine River town of Bingen, Germany. (travelpulse.com)