GOMO Travel Get Clients Where They Need to Be with Dignity
It was impossible for me to know how that phone call in 2018 from my half-sister and half-brother would alter the course of my professional career. I learned of the dreadful ordeal they experienced trying to get my father from Arizona ti Minnesota for care after he had suffered a falling accident. While the complications surrounding his travel were significant — including dementia, mobility, physical state, luggage, accompaniment, etc. — the experience was an epiphany that would change my life and others.
As a registered nurse of 30 years, and avid traveler with a newly-minted executive MBA, I decided to create an assisted travel business… and GOMO Travel was born in 2019. GOMO Travel is a Cape Coral-based assisted travel services company dedicated to helping travelers get to where they need to be with safety, comfort, and dignity. We do this by providing travel companions — most of whom are experienced nurses — to accompany our travelers door-to-door to help them get to their destinations in the U.S. and all over the world. We have accompanied travelers through 37 states and seven countries… and counting.
Over our short five-year history, we have experienced double-digit growth and are focused on expanding our national and international footprint. While most of our travelers experience some degree of medical health-related challenges that make normal, long-distance travel an impossibility (like my father,) a growing segment of our business involves travelers on leisure trips, such as weddings and bucket-list adventures, where they just need a friendly hand to help them along their journey.
At GOMO Travel, we are helping normalize assisted travel so that seniors or anyone who needs assistance can travel, whether it’s to visit family, for necessary medical appointments and treatments, for relocation purposes, or simply because they want to.
Kerri Johnson is president and CEO of GOMO Travel. Contact kerri@gomotravel.com or (904) 395-7500. Visit GOMOTravel.com.