About Us
Who We Are?
White Dolphin Holidays is the flagship digital consumer brand within the Columbus Travel Media portfolio. A comprehensive guide to the world’s best travel destinations, its print heritage stretches back 33 years, with the online portal reaching its 22-year anniversary in 2021.
Available in English, German, French and Spanish versions, the White Dolphin Holidays provides detailed and accurate travel content designed to inspire global travellers. It covers all aspects, from cities to airports, cruise ports to ski and beach resorts, attractions to events, and it also includes weekly travel news, features and quizzes. Updated every day by a dedicated global editorial team, the portal logs 1 million+ unique users monthly.
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Our Mission Statement
The world is changing all around us. To continue to thrive as a business over the next ten years and beyond, we must look ahead, understand the trends and forces that will shape our business in the future and move swiftly to prepare for what’s to come.
We must get ready for tomorrow today. That’s what our 2021 Vision is all about. It creates a long-term destination for our business and provides us with a “Roadmap” for winning together with our partners.
Our Mission
Our Roadmap starts with our mission, which is enduring. It declares our purpose as a company and serves as the standard against which we weigh our actions and decisions.
- To bring families closer together…
- To inspire moments of optimism and happiness…
- To create value and make a difference.
And finally you can choose to own your vacations during the time of year which suits you best – high season if you wish to travel during the school holidays, mid season if you can be a little more flexible and low season if getting away from it all for a bit more peace and quiet is what you want.
Our Vision
Our vision serves as the framework for our Roadmap and guides every aspect of our business by describing what we need to accomplish in order to continue achieving sustainable, quality growth.
- People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be.
- Portfolio: Bring to the world a portfolio of quality holidays that anticipate and satisfy people’s desires and needs.
- Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and partners, together we create mutual, enduring value.
- Planet: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference by helping families and friends come closer together.
- Profit: Maximize long-term return to employees while being mindful of our overall responsibilities.
- Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.
Live Our Values
Our values serve as a compass for our actions and describe how we behave in the world.
- Leadership: The courage to shape a better future
- Collaboration: Leverage collective genius
- Integrity: Be real
- Accountability: If it is to be, it’s up to me
- Passion: Committed in heart and mind
- Diversity: As inclusive as our brand
- Quality: What we do, we do well
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Focus On The Market
- Focus on needs of our consumers, customers and franchise partners
- Get out into the market and listen, observe and learn
- Possess a world view
- Focus on execution in the marketplace every day
- Be insatiably curious
Work Smart
- Act with urgency
- Remain responsive to change
- Have the courage to change course when needed
- Remain constructively discontent
- Work efficiently
Act Like Owners
- Be accountable for our actions and inactions
- Steward system assets and focus on building value
- Reward our people for taking risks and finding better waysto solve problems
- Learn from our outcomes — what worked and what didn’t
Our Winning Culture
Our Winning Culture defines the attitudes and behaviors that will be required of us to make our 2021 Vision a reality.
