25 Years Nonstop Travel

1984 - 2009 - 25 years of personal service

We have come a long way from a little travel agency with one desk and one phone to one of the largest retail agencies specializing in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

We would like to say “THANK YOU” to our valued clients and preferred travel partners who followed Nonstop Travel’s successful path over the last 25 years. We have come a long way from a little travel agency with one desk and one phone to one of the largest retail agencies specializing in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

Dates: January  25, 2009

A record number of people turned out to celebrate Nonstop Travel's 25th business anniversary at the Alpine Village in Torrance on Sunday, January 25.

"We received 650 RSVPs but over 1000 people attended," said NonStop Travel’s president, Elisabeth (Lisa) Wilson-Schmitt, who along with her husband, Klaus Schmitt, started the travel agency in January of 1984 to cater to the large German-speaking community in Southern California.

The little agency of then, with only one desk and one phone, started in a small room above the German American Club in Santa Monica, has grown into one of the largest retail travel agencies specializing in travel to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In January 1992, the agency opened a partner office in Germany, “Nonstop Reisen,” in Frankfurt/Main, servicing clients traveling from Germany and other European countries to the United States.

Over the years, Nonstop Travel has developed 'niche' travel programs that help to promote German culture and heritage. One program in particular, the popular 'Back to Your Roots in Germany', offers the large number of Americans with German heritage the opportunity to research and follow their German ancestors’ footsteps while traveling abroad. The unique program was developed together with the German National Tourism Board and Research & Travel in Germany.