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Join
Sandy Dhuyvetter
Host of
Travel Talk Radio


In the studio


Channel 2 in Boise
CNN Local Headline
News in Southern CA
.


REMOTE Programs


Sandy and with Guest
Thomas Steinmetz
publisher of 
ETurboNews




Introducing the Ambassador from Tanzania to the US.



Village at Squaw Valley
Lake Tahoe
 



LIVE REMOTE from
HAMPTON VA


Sandy and
KING ABDULLAH II
from Jordan



Sandy and Egypt's
former Minister of Tourism
AHMED EL MAGHRABY


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TravelTalkRADIO AUGUST 24, 2008
Broadcasting from the TravelTalkMEDIA studios in
Southern California
ARCHIVES NOW AVAILABLE
Click on the names of guests to learn more about each segment or
continue to scroll down to see the entire page.
 

Thank you and enjoy this weeks program. 

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Segment  1
SANDY DHUYVETTER

Executive Producer
& Host
Segment 2
THOMAS STEINMETZ

Publisher of
eTurboNews
Segments 3 & 4
PETER PANTUSO
President and
CEO of the
American Bus
Association (ABA)

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Segments 5 & 6
MARY ELLEN SCHULTZ
Travel Writer
Segment 7
SANDY DHUYVETTER
Executive Producer
& Host
Segment 8
GREG HARTMANN
President and
CEO of Sustainable Cards

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Segments 9, 10 & 11
SUJIT CHOWDHURY
Secretary General of
the World Tourism
Marketing Summit

Segment 12
SANDY DHUYVETTER
 Executive Producer
& Host
 

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SEGMENT 1
SANDY DHUYVETTER

Executive Producer & Host


Experience authentic kibbutz living in Israel, along the shores
of the Dead Sea. Listen to Sandy's
close friend Daniella Cohen talk about this beautiful area
HERE.   Visit the Ein Gedi Website, Click HERE

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Welcome to this week's program!

 

Missed last week's show? Listen in as Kate Hanni, Founder and President of the Coalition for Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights, talk about passengers
rights and a report card airlines are given to determine how they treat their passengers.

SEGMENT 1
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SEGMENT 1
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Approx 6 min

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SEGMENT 2
THOMAS STEINMETZ

Publisher of eTurboNews

Listen in as Sandy Dhuyvetter, Executive Producer and Host of TravelTalkRADIO, talks with Thomas Steinmetz about the news around the world in the travel industry.


 

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eTurboNews, our flagship news service, is a daily bulletin of reports written by a global team of contributing editors, writers, guest analysts and occasional correspondents, focused on events, company news, market trends, new routes and services, political and legislative developments relevant to travel, transport and tourism, and issues relating to tourism’s role in the fight against poverty, and the industry’s responsibility for the environment and human rights.

During this interview the type of plane that recently went down in Spain was incorrectly identified. The plane was a McDonnell-Douglas MD-80, which are still around today.

SEGMENT 2
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SEGMENT 2
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Approx 7 min

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SEGMENTS 3 & 4
PETER PANTUSO

President of the American
Bus Association (ABA)
Peter Pantuso, President of the American Bus Association (ABA), joins Sandy Dhuyvetter, Host and Executive Producer of TravelTalkRADIO, to talk about safety and security on motorcoaches and the Green Scheme of the ABA - "Save a Penguin - Take a Motorcoach". Also, Peter hints a little at the ABA's Top 100 Events and Festivals. The list is an annual compendium of the best events for group travel in the US and Canada and will officially be released this September. Stay tuned!


This years American Bus Association

 

SEGMENTS 3 & 4
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SEGMENTS 3 & 4
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Approx 15 min

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SEGMENTS 5 & 6
MARY ELLEN SCHULTZ

Travel Writer

Read Mary Ellen Schultz's article in Travel World News:  August 2007 and April 2006.

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 Sandy with Travel Writers Sylvia Frommer-Mracky and Mary Ellen Schultz

Tune in as Sandy Dhuyvetter, Host and Executive Producer of TravelTalkRADIO, talks with Mary Ellen about her craft and what it takes to be a top-notch travel writer.

SEGMENTS 5 & 6
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SEGMENTS 5 & 6
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Approx 12 min

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SEGMENT 7
SANDY DHUYVETTER

Executive Producer and Host
 

Sandy is joined by the Vice President of Operations Patrick Peartree and Travel Writer Nick Gosling to talk about upcoming guests and upcoming trips the TravelTalkMEDIA Team has on the horizon.

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Sandy and Patrick at the San
Diego International Airport earlier this year.

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SEGMENT 7
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Approx 6 min

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SEGMENT 8
GREG HARTMANN

President and CEO of
Sustainable Cards

Gregory Hartmann is Managing Director of HVS International, based in Boulder, Colorado. Greg and his 20-person staff in Boulder worked over 1,300 hotel assignments in 2005 from single assets up to 650-property portfolios. Greg is a graduate of the Cornell University Hotel School and has written numerous articles and contributed to several books on hotel related topics such as extended-stay, Latin American tourism, hotel technology and franchising.

Listen in as Sandy Dhuyvetter, Host and Executive Producer of TravelTalkRADIO, talks with Greg Hartmann about where he and his business partner Peo Akesson got the idea for the wooden hotel card and where you can find them in use.


                         
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The first wooden key card will be used at 91 hotels during the
Democratic National
Convention this August