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December 13, 2009


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Sandy congratulates
Rex Maughan for receiving the prestigious the21st  Sheldon
Coleman Award


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The  21st 2009
Sheldon Coleman
Great Outdoors Award
is awarded to
Rex Maughan,
Chairman, President,
and Director of
Forever Living Products International, Inc
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Join Sandy as we
congratulate
Mr. Maughan on this
prestigious award.
Plus you will learn more
about this most
fascinating leader
in the travel industry.




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forces to create
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at the World
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at the World
Travel Market 2007.
 

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Sandy with Rex Maughan,
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 Forever Resorts.

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 TravelTalkRADIO
December 13, 2009  

Archives Available

Click on the names or photo of this week's guests to listen and learn more about each segment or continue to scroll down to see
the entire page. 

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Segment 1
Sa
ndy Dhuyvetter
Executive Producer
and Host
Segments 2
Alfredo Castellano
Client of Omong'we
Tour & Travel
Segment 3
Ruth McKinney
Recipient of the National Tour Assn Lifetime Achievement Award

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Segment 4
Jamie Jensen

Author of Road Trip USA
Segments 5
Stephen Hayes
President of the
Corporate Council on Africa
Segments 6 & 7
Sandy Dhuyvetter

Executive Producer
and Host

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Segment 8 - 9
Andy Uhlig
Director of Business Dev
ITI Marketing
Segments 10
Dr. Sam Saker
President of CHA and MENA Travel Awards
Segments 11 & 12
Robert Reid
US Travel Editor for
Lonely Planet

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Segment 13
John Issa
Founder and Chairman of  SuperClubs and Breezes Resorts – Creator of the All-Inclusive Vacation
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SEGMENT 1
Sandy Dhuyvetter

Executive Producer
and Host


National Tour Association

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Thank you for joining us!

Directly after the program, Patrick and Sandy take off for Holy Lands to do programming about culture, archeology and faith-based touring.
 

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SEGMENTS 2
Alfredo Castellano

Client of Omong'we Tour & Travel
 

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Can’t Pay for Ads Like This

 

Martin Warioba, Founder of Omong'we Travel & Tours in Tanzania, Africa and Alfredo Castellano, Attorney at Law and 7M Mile Star Alliance Platinum Member

 

Puerto Rican based attorney Alfredo Castellano has visited 140 countries and logged over seven million miles along the way. He’s also toured Tanzania and Zanzibar using Martin Warioba’s Omong’we Travel services. Find out if it’s true that when you consistently provide your clientele with stellar service over many years, eventually some of those clients will become your best advertising pieces ever.

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SEGMENTS 3
Ruth McKinney

Recipient of the National Tour Assn Lifetime Achievement Award

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Ruth, A Truly Great Babe

Ruth McKinney
, Recipient of the National Tour Association’s Bob Everidge Lifetime Achievement Award

 

Meet the 2009 recipient of this most prestigious NTA award. Ruth is a diminutive gal from a small town who has made huge contributions to the tourism industry. Among many other tireless volunteer efforts she has undertaken over the years for the NTA and its membership, Ruth has served as the President of the National Tour Foundation, known today as Tourism Cares. This is a petite giant in travel.

 

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SEGMENTS 4
Jamie Jensen

Author of Road Trip USA

 

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Virtual Road Trip
 

Jamie Jensen, Author of Road Trip USA
 

This great book is wonderful to actually guide your journeys across America, or just curl up with it in an armchair to virtually experience some of the most interesting stretches of highway in the world. Meet Jamie Jensen, the author of one of our favorite travel guide books of the year!

 

 

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SEGMENTS 5
Stephen Hayes

President of the
Corporate Council on Africa

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Epic Undertaking
 

Stephen Hayes, President of the Corporate Council on Africa

 

For the fifth year in a row, leaders from nearly every major industry imaginable will be meeting in Washington, DC in April to confer and plan the monumental task of continuing to build and standardize the critical infrastructure of Mother Africa. Held in tandem with the spring meeting of the World Bank (natch), this is the premiere event that must be targeted by any business that has a serious desire to becoming actively involved in this epic undertaking.

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SEGMENT  6 & 7
Sandy Dhuyvetter


Executive Producer
and Host

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Road Trippin', TravelTalkRADIO Style
 
Sandy and Patrick talk about his recent road trip to the Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. Also, breaking news! We leave for Bethlehem right after the show today to produce special holiday programming in Palestine. More on this trip to the cradle and crossroads of civilization coming soon! We also discuss the once-in-a-decade Passion Play to be performed high in the Bavarian Alps in Oberammergau, Germany in 2010. Collette Vacations will take you there for the experience of a lifetime. Plus, a quick intro to BusinessTravelRADIO and, finally, our vote for acronym of the year (MENA). 




 
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SEGMENT  8 - 9
Andy Uhlig

Director of Business Dev
ITI Marketing

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eTicket to Ride
 

Andy Uhlig, Director of Business Development for ITI Marketing

 

Great mobile technologies are allowing organizations and business to effectively market and sell travel products and services anywhere, anytime. The smart phone rules Andy tells us how and why!  

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SEGMENT 10
Dr. Sam Saker

President of CHA and
MENA Travel Awards

 

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Oscar Night for MENA Travel

 

Dr. Sam Saker, Creator of the MENA Travel Awards and President of Consultants of Hospitality Administrators (CHA) International

 

The tourism industry in one of our favorite regions, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has its own special Oscar-like ceremony every year that honors true “Champions of Service Quality”. Now in its fifth year and built on a carefully structured, independent voting protocol that’s closely monitored by Price Waterhouse Coopers, these are definitely NOT “the best travel awards money can buy.” Meet the creator of the MENA Travel Awards, Dr. Sam Saker.

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SEGMENT  11 & 12
Robert Reid

US Travel Editor
for Lonely Planet


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Easy Way to See the USA

 

Robert Reid, US Travel Editor for Lonely Planet and Author of The USA Book.

 

This is one of our most favorite coffee table books of the year and will give you hours of enjoyment getting to know the people, the places and the attractions that make up all 50 United States. Kick back and enjoy the sights and scenery of America!

 

 

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SEGMENTS  13
John Issa

Founder and Chairman of  SuperClubs and Breezes
Resorts – Creator of the All-Inclusive Vacation

 

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Inventing All-Inclusive Vacations

 

John Issa, Founder and Chairman of SuperClubs’ Breezes Resorts

No one is absolutely sure who came up with the concept of the all-inclusive vacation, but we think we have a pretty good idea who had it right first. John Issa’s recent brand expansion of his Breezes Resorts family

SuperClubs Resorts

Sandy and her family's
favorite destination to relax
and re-create  themselves
after an action-packed
year of broadcasting.

and the launch of two new resorts in Panama and Brazil are just a few more facts suggesting that this hotelier is one super entrepreneur.  
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BUSINESS TRAVEL RADIO
DECEMBER 11, 2009
8 - 9 AM Pacific Time

LISTEN LIVE
at wsRadio
Friday
Dec 11, 2009
8AM Pacific
Noon Eastern

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AVAILABLE

 

Segment 1
Sean Kirkland
Executive Vice President, Business Development
www.dmcnetwork.com

Find Qualified Suppliers through
DMC Network.

Sean Kirkland joins Sandy to talk about
the DMC Network and how they provide clients with a pre-screened collection of leading destination services professionals who can be contacted individually or collectively through a single point of contact at the DMC Network. Sean will provide you with an education and ideas on how to best use DMCNetwork.com.

Segment 2
Jim Tyner
Founder and President
of Group-Res
www.Group-res.com

Group Reservation Systems allow you to Pay as you Play!
Jim, a veteran Travel expert since the early 80's decided a few years ago there was a read need to create a turn key piece of Software that allows big and small companies to take advantage of the new technology called cloud computing. If you need to put together a reservation system and if data is your bag, you will love the reporting system at group-res.com.

Segment 3
Sharon Parris-Chambers
President Positive Tourism
www.positivetourism.com

The Power of Wellness
Sharon is the president and partner of Positive Tourism and is very committed and passionate being a beam of light for wellness and Travel. This April, she will e hosting a Wellness Conference, why not consider having your conference along side. After all, isn't wellness at the heart of everything we do? A credible Caribbean Travel expert, Sharon now introduces us to the Caribbean's first cousin, Panama.
caribbeanhealthtourism.com/

Segment 4
Sandy Dhuyvetter, Executive Producer and Host and Patrick Peartree, Director of programming

Give me the News!
Sandy and Patrick discuss their upcoming trip to Palestine. The BusinessTravel RSS News feed is doing well and Sandy and Patrick discuss a few of the items that caught their eye. www.TravelTalkMEDIA.com

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BusinessTravelNEWSFEED

 

 

   
 

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