100 Years ago

In an uncertain world, one thing remains the same; LaMacchia Travel's commitment to serve is still as strong as ever.
With over 100 years of service tradition in the travel industry, beginning with Eugenio LaMacchia, an Italian immigrant, LaMacchia Travel's roots are still the same, helping people.
Eugenio's vision was to help Italian immigrants come to the Untied States from the old country and give them the opportunity that he recieved.
Eugenio was able to bring many Italian immigrants to the United States through use of the steamship and train transportation in the early 1900's.
Some of the initial jobs that they did at LaMacchia were preparing Italian documents, helping clients with traslation of documents and assisted them with immigration matters.
Eugenio's vision continued with his son Edmund.

Our Kenosha Roots

With his graduation from Marquette University Edmund LaMacchia founded LaMacchia Travel and reestablished his fathers business into the successful company that is today.
In the early days of LaMacchia Travel, Edmund continued the work of his father. In the 1940's, a time when most women stayed at home and watched the kids, 6 of them at that, his innovative and headstrong wife, Emma LaMacchia, urged Edmund to add airline travel to the products offered to their customers.
LaMacchia travel became one of the first agencies in the state to do this. Emma LaMacchia is very important to the success of LaMacchia Travel.
She was Edmunds right hand person. She completed all the training that was required to receive the appointments to handle airline bookings.

The Tradition Continues

In 1959, their son Eugene LaMacchia joined the team after his graduation from Marquette University.
It was during this time that a shift began in the travel industry. Customers were now interested in leisure vacations or pleasure trips, with an emphasis in Las Vegas, Hawaii, Jamaica, Caribbean and the European Market.
Cruise travel was also becoming popular. Under the reins of Eugene and Emma LaMacchia, the Leisure travel trend continued throughout the 70's and 80's. LaMacchia Travel cruise and package tour businesses began to soar.

1980-Future

In the early 80's Tom Karnes, Grandson to Edmund and Emma LaMacchia joined the LaMacchia Travel team. Tom is now the president of LTA and has been able to keep the spirits of the company high through the good times and the bad times.
When Tom came to the company the industry was going through major changes due to the booming of the internet. During the 90's the focus was on tours, cruises and specializing in group events.
The industry went through extremely difficult times after 9/11/2001 a time when many travel agencies closed, but the attitude at LTA stayed positive and they continually worked to evolve to keep competitive in the marketplace.
LaMacchia Travel looks forward to the future by offering great customer service, and believes that our past is part of our future. LaMacchia Travel is in the service industry and we look forward to serving you for years to come.