Company Overview

Carlson is a global group of integrated companies providing travel, hotel, restaurant, cruise and marketing services directly to consumers, corporations and government entities. Working together to serve you, from individual travel to all aspects of corporate meetings and events, we will fulfill customer and client needs with a true service heart. We celebrate our company's 70th anniversary in 2008.

Our mission:	Building Better Relationships
Our vision:	To become the most respected private company on earth.
Our credo:	Whatever you do, do with Integrity Wherever you go, go as a Leader Whomever you serve, serve with Caring Whenever you dream, dream with your All And never, ever give up

Carlson is on Working Mother magazine's 2001-2004 and 2006-2007 lists of "The Best Companies for Working Mothers," and Fortune magazine's 2002 list of "The 100 Best Companies to Work For." In 2006, we were named one of the "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality" by the Human Rights Campaign.

We are one of the largest privately held corporations in the world. Based in Minneapolis, Carlson's brands and services operate in more than 150 countries.