Atlas History

The steady, consistent rise of Atlas Travel International is largely due to its success in the Business Travel arena. Since 1986, when Elaine Osgood bought a Uniglobe franchise and opened her first office in Milford, MA, she recognized that the repeat nature of corporate travel would be the foundation of her agency. As the sole salesperson, she immediately set about to make her presence known to businesses in the local area. She signed one client (whom she still has today, more than two decades later) and then she signed another. She built the agency one customer at a time and quickly added vacation services to assist both her corporate customers and the general public.  

Her perseverance, innovation and unyielding dedication to customer service have catapulted the agency into an award-winning corporation with multiple locations and a list of satisfied customers that reads like a Who's Who of regional and national businesses. Osgood spent a decade learning the travel business in the Uniglobe system, achieving every honor the franchiser had to bestow including Chairman's Circle, President's Award, Owner of the Year, #1 Agency in America and #2 in the World! In 1997, Osgood discarded the franchise training wheels and jumped into the arena as Atlas Travel International, ready to compete with the largest agencies in New England. She opened a larger headquarters in Milford and gave her Vacation Department more dynamic street presence in Lexington.

In 2001, Atlas acquired Global Odysseys with a creative director passionate about meeting and incentive travel. The division has grown and is now branded as Atlas Meetings + Motivation, offering Atlas corporate clients yet another well of expertise from which to pull. Atlas Meetings + Motivation's signature product are its Big Splurge Certificates, a unique way to recognize or reward one or thousands of clients, vendors or employees.

Now, as one of an elite group of leading independent agencies chosen to represent BCD Travel, Atlas Travel International is an exclusive Northeast Regional Affiliate for this $13 billion travel network. The agency has been ranked #27 in North America by Business Travel News and Osgood has won Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in New England and been distinguished by Travel Agent magazine as One of the Most Powerful Women in Travel.  

Though the agency's ever-increasing success has positioned it as an industry leader, Atlas Travel International's philosophy has always been to win business one customer at a time.

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