02/12/2025
An incredible tour of Italy from Venice to Sorrento with many stops in between. Let First National Travel help you travel to Italy in 2025.
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1 N Main Street
Hutchinson, KS
67501
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| Monday | 9am - 3pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 3pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 3pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 3pm |
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The roots of the First National Travel Agency go back to E. L. Meyer, early day settler, who arrived in Hutchinson, KS in 1872. At the age of 5, Meyer, along with his parents came to the United States from France in 1854.
In 1878, United States President Rutherford B. Hayes requested the Governor of Kansas appoint a representative to the Industrial Exposition in Paris, France. E.L. Meyer was named. Although he probably did not remember much of his native city and country, he spoke the language and was eager to go.
Shortly after returning to Hutchinson, Meyer applied for an appointment to be an agent for the sale of steamship tickets, and since then four generations of the Meyer family have been involved in promoting travel. From 1887 through 1946, steamship tickets and later airline tickets, tours, etc., were sold from the First National Bank lobby at Sherman and Main. In 1947 the agency adopted the name, First National Travel Agency, hired its first full time staff member and moved to a desk in the Leon Hotel. Starting with 1954 a series of office moves took place, until 1974 when the agency settled at 201 East First Street for nearly 30 years. In early 2003, the office relocated to 524 E. 30th and in 2009 we moved back to our original home in the First National Bank Building, where you will currently find us on the 4th floor.
In the early years the entire information held by the agency on steamships throughout the world was housed in a three drawer file cabinet. Today the employees in Hutchinson operate numerous computer terminals, occupy over 1,000 square feet of space filled with thousands of folders, books , and other literature, and continue to nurture the travel "bug" that bit E.L. Meyer the first time he really saw Paris in 1878. We think he would be proud of the tradition of world travel the people of Hutchinson are noted for, and that he started.
