H A P P Y    A N N I V E R S A R Y    T r a v e l T a l k R A D I O - 7 Years!
Seven years ago, on August 16, 2001, TravelTalkRADIO broadcast for the first time.
We were one of the first regularly scheduled conventional radio broadcasts to stream online worldwide over the Internet and we were doing this years before podcasting became the rage. Our satellite delivery to traditional radio stations and our Internet streaming and podcasting availability will be enhanced with the advent of WiMAX (long range WiFi). The result will be that TravelTalkMEDIA's radio and TV programming will be available wirelessly on a global basis!
Please join us this Sunday to celebrate. THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMING CLICK HERE
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Welcome to this week's TravelTalkMEDIA Newsletter - Sunday August 16, 2008
Hope your week is off to a great start. We had one of the most amazing week's in our history. Besides celebrating our 7th anniversary, we have inked a deal with a very big distribution channel in the Pacific Asia.  With the signatures just fresh on Friday, the press releases are
being prepared and will soon issue. We will give you a little hint: This new channel has a potential audience reach of over 1 billion people! Stay tuned for more exciting TravelTalkMEDIA.
Thank you again for allowing us into your car, home, and office on your radio, TV and online. I can promise you, the best is yet to come!
Safe Travels - Sandy Dhuyvetter  
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Celebrate our 7th Anniversary! This Week's Guests: Our world class travel guests include Kerry Ann Quallo-Casserly, SuperClubs Director of Sales for Grand Lido Braco, Gary Brown, President of Furnished Quarters, Kate Hanni, Founder and President of the Coalition for the Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights, Thierry Roch, Executive Director of Historic Hotels of America, and Jully Bede Lymo, Tanzania National Park Warden. Also joining the program are Tom Beedon, General Manager of The Belamar Hotel, Patrick Peartree, TravelTalkMEDIA's Vice President of Operations, Eric Zmolek, Student Traveler, and Nick Gosling, Travel Writer. Listen in as we celebrate seven years of bringing you the latest and greatest in travel news. Click HERE to learn more about the program and listen!
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Always love to find these kinds of stories. We'd like to thank Don Meador, Director of Sales & Marketing for the Landmark Hotel Group in Virginia Beach, VA.

On his Get A Room!  blog dated August 05, 2008, Don had this to say about TravelTalkMEDIA

Um...Why Didn't I Think of That?
By Don Meador

TravelTalkRADIO provides travel-related news, information and entertainment geared toward both industry insiders as well as people who like (or have) to travel. But that's just the tip of this travel media giant's iceberg. I had a couple of run-ins with Sandy Dhuyvetter, Executive Producer and host of TravelTalkRADIO, one of the world's leading travel industry media specialists, at American Bus Association Conventions in both Grapevine, TX and in Virginia Beach, VA.

Don Meador's Blog

Her remote "studio" was hard to miss: a fun and fantastic tiki hut stationed at the entrance to the convention floor where she was giving the play-by-play and entertaining interviews with convention-goers and city officials alike as thousands of tour operators, hoteliers, and other hospitality professionals zoomed through their week-long annual Marketplace.

Being a former broadcaster and current hotel executive, I kicked myself for not coming up with this ingenius idea first as I made my way to the tiki hut to shake this woman's hand. As busy as I know remote broadcasts can be, she was both accommodating and gracious, and shared with me a little about her travels, and how this media venture came to be. (As it turns out, I'm about seven years too late!)

All I can say is "Bravo." Not only does TravelTalkMEDIA produce TravelTalkRADIO, but they also produce TravelTalkTV, and issue the TravelTalkNEWSLETTER.

I know. I'm feeling a little inadequate right now, too.

While we travel bloggers are taking our thoughts and ideas to the world, TravelTalkMEDIA is doing a bang up job of covering the travel industry from all over the world. I'm fascinated by the hundreds of locations Sandy reports from, and applaud her efforts to promote the travel industry to and from the four corners of this planet. And in the midst of everything they've got going on, they announced in June that TravelTalkMEDIA has adopted a school in Tanzania and is raising funds to provide them with writing desks.

In addition, TravelTalkMEDIA provides the most comprehensive list of travel tips I've ever seen!

I know you can't see me right now, but I'm standing and applauding my computer screen. I love seeing people do great work and make time to do great things for others.

If you're not receiving the TravelTalkNEWSLETTER, I encourage you to get signed up, and check out Sandy's blog, where I dare you to try and keep up with her!

Wow, Thanks Don! Really appreciate your kind remarks! Check out Don's blog HERE
Let us know what you think of our programming. We publish, the good, the bad, and the ugly!

Sandy's Travel Blog.

Listen to an interview with TravelTalkMEDIA's Travel Writer and Photographer Nick Gosling HERE on wsRadio.com.
Check out his photos HERE

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Sandy will be presenting at the World Tourism Investment Summit October 6 - 9, 2008 in Busan, South Korea.

Directory of Tanzanian programming and guests.