Meet the Travel for All Team
Meet our dynamic team of seasoned travel professionals, who bring a unique blend of expertise and innovation to crafting your accessible dream adventure.
Administration
Tarita
Founder & CEO
Our founder and CEO, Tarita, was diagnosed with MS at 29. Due to life’s circumstances, as an avid traveler with a progressive disease, she found herself searching for accessible travel. Finding little or no resources for planning a dream vacation led her to establishing Travel For All, a Global Accessible Travel Agency.
Tarita has dedicated her life to creating dream vacations for those who thought they were only for other people. She takes great pride in ensuring that, regardless of your level of mobility or ability, you will have the experience of a lifetime.
Tarita believes that travel should be inclusive, not exclusive. Regardless of a person’s age or physical challenges, they should have the opportunity to experience first-hand the wonders of the world. Having been a part of the travel industry for more than 25 years, she has become an expert in her specialty.
Fred
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Fred is a passionate, recognized international leader in the disability community. After many years working as a corporate executive for Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies in the United States. As Founder and CEO, of Maahs Travels his focus is on accessible travel and tourism. He works with governments, tourism boards, and hospitality businesses around the world to define market potential and strategies to attract more people to destinations.
Fred is a Past Chair of the American Association of People with Disabilities, has served on many boards including the National Easter Seals Board in the US, and continues to advice on many others.
He represents Travel For All when invited to share his knowledge and expertise on stages around the world to lead discussions about accessible travel and tourism.
We’re happy to have Fred has a business partner.
Wendy
Chief Administrative Officer & Accessible Travel Specialist (CAO)
Wendy is an avid traveler, exploring the world and has many wonderful stories and pictures to share. After riding motorcycles throughout North America for over 15 years, she now loves to cruise, discovering the next destination for an extended stay. Wendy has traveled extensively throughout Canada, US including Alaska and Hawaii, Mexico, Cuba, Caribbean, Panama Canal, Suez Canal and Middle East, South America, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Thailand, many countries in Europe, England, Scotland, Iceland, Russia, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Bali, Costa Rica, and Singapore to name a few.
Wendy oversees keeping us on track and on budget! We appreciate her dedication to managing all the important and critical facets involved in running a travel agency. Her background in the financial industry is the strength needed to keep Travel For All on the right path. All documents, financial matters, and administrative tasks are managed by Wendy.
ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL SPECIALISTS
Jo
Accessible Travel Specialist
Jo was born in The Faroe Islands and travelled to England, via Scotland, at 7 months old where she was raised. Jo moved to Ontario, Canada after marrying and she and her husband retired to British Columbia over 20 years ago. Her travels have continued all through her life, from the North Cape in Arctic Norway, in the Norwegian Sea, to the Tasman Sea, south of New Zealand in the Southern Pacific Ocean. She circumnavigated the world in 2014 from Canada to Germany, Cape Town, South Africa to Hong Kong and China. She climbed the Great Wall and looked in awe at the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xian. Then on to San Francisco and back to Vancouver.
Jo has travelled to every state in the USA including Alaska and Hawaii and every province in Canada as well as to 6 of the 7 continents in the world with plans to visit the 7th next year. Europe is one of her favourite vacation destinations and she has visited 27 of the 44 countries, travelling by car, rail and cruise ships.
Jo would love to help you explore the world too!