Snobby Tours ®, Inc.  
Mission Statement

"Our mission and focus are to create for our clients
unique, incomparable domestic and international custom tours
which provide our clients with opportunities to experience experts in the fields
of art, architecture, literature, history, archeology, wine and the cuisines of
the world in collaboration with our imaginative travel itineraries."
                                     
. . . . . Ellen J. Jacobson, Founding Director


"With over 40 years of relevant expertise and continuing the tradition of the
"First Ladies" Travel Program established in Texas in the mid-1960's,
Snobby Tours
® provides its clientele with unique, unparalleled, unforgettable
domestic and international cultural and heritage custom tours which are
noted for having exceptional client service and superlative attention to detail,  
which are exclusively created by Snobby Tours
®,
and which cannot be found anywhere else !"

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About Our Director

ELLEN J. JACOBSON, ESQ.,  a native Texan, has been a Los Angeles-based arts and entertainment industry
attorney, litigator and business consultant, television producer, arts business educator,  author/editor/publisher of numerous
arts business publications, and a literary agent for children’s book authors worldwide for over 35 years.   
Actively involved in the visual, performing and literary arts in both California and Texas,
she has served on numerous civic, arts, professional and private sector boards, including the
City of Dallas’ Public Art Selection Panel,  the Advisory Council of Dallas’ historic Bath House Cultural Centre,  
the DFW Regional Film Commission, the Los Angeles County Bar and Beverly Hills (California) Bar Association Boards of
Governors, the steering committee for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA),  
as an arts consultant on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee,  and as
an arts educator in the USC Entertainment Law Institute.   
She is a founding member and past Chair of the Dallas Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Law Section,  
and recipient of the Dallas Bar’s Outstanding Section Chair Award.    
Having produced numerous arts and entertainment law and entertainment industry-related seminars and workshops,
as well as having published extensively in this field over the past 25+ years, Ellen develops and arranges the special interest
"niche" cultural and heritage touring programs, continuing education components, relevant expert and locale guides, and
charitable/nonprofit collaborations which are unique to the Snobby Tours
® travel experience.