About us

Our story began in Exeter, Ontario in 1980. Doug Ellison, at that time, a secondary school teacher who had developed a love for travel and saw it as important part of education – left his teaching career and opened a business running student tours. Four decades later, Doug and the Ellison Team have expanded into other travel divisions and 3 office locations (Exeter and London, ON; North Vancouver, BC) employing over 80 people today across Canada … and after 40 years, haven’t looked back! Now into the second generation of the family business, Marcie Ellison Outerbridge, Paulo and Michelle Branco are taking over the leadership of the Ellison Team – sharing Doug’s love of people and places, and his vision of opening minds and hearts through travel.   

As a Full-Service Travel Agency and Tour Operator, Ellison Travel & Tours is a unique travel company – with departments focusing on Vacations & Cruises, Business Travel, Customized Group Tours and Student Travel. Ellison is one of the few Canadian owned and operated companies that specialize in fully customized tours – typically customizing over 600 tours each year both internationally and within Canada. With divisions curating special interest tours such as Women’s Travel, Senior’s Travel, Musical Performance, Culinary & Wine, History, Battlefield & Remembrance and other areas of interest – the depth of expertise of our travel professionals is unparalleled, and our passion for travel is contagious.

Ellison is one of the largest Canadian travel agencies, loyal to its roots and has all the advantages of a small-town business: friendly, personal attention, long-serving employees and excellent service. We are a company that prides itself on our people and relationships, our commitment to safe and responsible travel and enterprise, and our ability to adapt and innovate through continuous advancement of technology and forward thinking.

We hope to share our passion for travel, people and places with you.