The Jacobs Group™
is an art travel consulting company that offers specialized art and design tours to some of the most vibrant and culturally rich cities in the US and the world.Led by Founder/Director Jennifer Jacobs, together with an international network of artists, curators, collectors and arts professionals, our ‘Jacobs Group’ is an ever changing community of experts who help us customize each tour to the individual interests of our customers.
Services
.................
The Jacobs Group™ provides full-service solutions to meet your travel program needs from start to finish:
Itinerary Development
We’ll work with you to develop an itinerary that is a fit for your organization, assessing the level of staffing and program management needed, and fundraising and sales strategies to help you make the trip a success.
Staff and Organizational Incentives
To help you meet your bottom line, TJG™ tours include a complimentary fare for a staff member traveling with the group. We also believe in giving back to the communities that support us, and are members and sponsors of many of the organizations we serve.
Marketing Support
We create specialized marketing materials that reflect the high artistic quality of the trip and include your organization’s logo and branding. These include but are not limited to: daily itineraries, newsletters, trip orientation booklets, gift bags, and other materials.
Sales and Administrative Support
We can process individual trip registrations and payments through our office or help organize a system to keep trip sales in-house, and provide mailing and newsletter templates to help keep your patrons up to date with trip developments. Think of us as members of your staff, we’re here to help!
Travel Support
Our staff and agents provide personalized assistance for your patron’s travel needs, including individual trip extensions, airfare, travel insurance and other travel requests.
Ground Logistics, Insurance and Event Management
We can provide an on-site tour manager to troubleshoot and tend to every detail of your trip, manage event needs, reservation requests and other logistics. TJG™ also provides year around liability insurance for each of our projects.
Development Savvy + Travel Expertise
A successful travel program can have immense benefits for your organization. Besides being a great development tool and creating an incentive for membership, it is a great service to your members, donors, and patrons that allows you to build deep relationships and lasting connections to your organization. With over fifteen years of non–profit management experience, we provide museums, non–profits with a unique skill set to help you develop and manage a successful travel program that supports your mission and organizational needs. We oversee every detail of the program so that you can spend more time with your patrons: the end result is a more focused and rewarding experience that all will remember.
Specialized Access
A hallmark of every successful travel program, each itinerary includes a high level of privileged access and behind–the–scenes interactions with private collectors, artists, curators and the like, as well as access to unique venues, tours and activities not available to the general public.
High Style
Our clients represent some of the top museums and creative audiences in the world, so we feel your travel program should too. From marketing materials and trip packets, to hotels, meals, and transportation, your patrons will travel in a style befitting your organization – no matter what your budget!
Measured Success
With over 12 years of travel program management and experience in over 20 art–world destinations worldwide, The Jacobs Group™ now works with some of the country’s leading art centers and mounts 10–15 large group trips each year. Through the success of our museum tours, several patrons have requested assistance in planning group activities for alumni groups, private businesses, and leisure travel. As a result of this demand, The Jacobs Group™ now offers 1–2 individual trips a year to our self–subscribed individual mailing list, with past trips to Havana, Beijing + Shanghai and other art world destinations.
