I just received my AKCPA certification! That means I am now an Arctic Kingdom Certified Polar Advisor. Arctic Kingdom is a terrific Virtuoso Active & Speciality Travel (VAST) partner of mine. And, they run some terrific Arctic and Antarctica trips. They specialize in Arctic Safaris. What’s really terrific about them too is that they run […]
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Last weekend, I travelled to Montreal for Vision Travel’s annual conference. I met with over 40 suppliers from cruising to land tours to active travel partners to airlines to hotelier partners to onsite destination partners. (And I was asked to share some of my twitter expertise with my colleagues as well, and participated in a
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Last Thursday, I co-hosted an active travel talk with my active travel partner, Pat Rochon. We had a great and interactive talk, and those in attendance were enraptured by Pat’s enthusiasm for Africa (a continent he’s visited 12 times.). Here are some pictures. Let me know if you’d like to learn more. Of course, the
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On October 23rd, I co-hosted an active travel talk about cycling holidays around the world. My active travel partner, Pat Rochon, has visited 140 countries around the world, and he shared his insights and experiences with visiting the world on two wheels. It was a great talk, and there was lots of interest in active
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I love getting wonderful reviews and recommendations from my clients at www.virtuoso.com. Here is one from client, Trefor Munn-Venn. Every detail taken care of beautifully By: Happy Couple Who Needed a Romantic Getaway (Trefor Munn-Venn) Reviewed on: 27 Aug 2014 We had an idea where we wanted to go, but Sheila really made it happen.
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It’s been an whirlwind of a summer. I’ve traveled from Ottawa to Germany (for a Tauck River Cruise onboard new MS Savor) to Colombia (for a Cox and Kings private-guided tour of Bogota, Medellin, and Cartagena) to Newfoundland (for a visit with family, and touring the west coast), to Las Vegas (for Virtuoso Travel Week).
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I am so excited to share with you what I learned on Tauck’s Travel Agent Academy onboard their new riverboat, the MS Savor. Tauck is a US company, headquartered in Connecticut, and they’ve been doing escorted holidays for almost 90 years Three generations of Taucks have been pioneers in escorted travel since their
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I was just notified by the Anguilla Tourist Board of Canada that I’m #1 in Canada and #2 in all of North America for Anguilla bookings. How cool is that?! Thanks Dale Pusching and Catherine Butchart! Ask me how to get you on this beautiful beach! Anguilla has some of the absolute best beaches in the world! Ask me –
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My client, Will Gibbons, generously submitted the following review of working with me. “I came to Sheila with a difficult challenge- How to accommodate a family (with a very young child) leaving from different countries on one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Also- Did I also mention that it was last minute and
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A trip with Backroads (one of my Virtuoso Active and Speciality Travel, or VAST) partners is a special thing. For one thing, Backroads is the #1 active travel company in the world. They’ve been arranging active trips for 35 years. For another, look at the list of amazing destinations around the world they see.
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