The children of the Good Hope Kiwawa Children's Homein Arusha, Tanzania.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Studio of Arusha, Tanzania. Filex was contracted to
paint this and other murals at the Arusha International
Conference Centre. The Sunset Art Studio features
creative designers of traditional and contemporary
East Africa Art. For more information,
e-mail Filex at filexjacob@yahoo.com.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Ask Sandy: Question: Could online hotel deal that's too good to be true have repercussions in the end? Answer: Maybe so.
Hello Sandy,
If the price is so unrealistic, it may be unenforceable. The same room, plus the price during a non-Spring break, plus a bad weather season, might be a valid contract.
Just let me know when a good time for an interview/segment might be and I'll be sure to carve out the time.
In answer to your email - briefly:
If the price is so unrealistic, it may be unenforceable. The same room, plus the price during a non-Spring break, plus a bad weather season, might be a valid contract.
Just let me know when a good time for an interview/segment might be and I'll be sure to carve out the time.
Al Anolik
Travel Lawyer
Anolik Law Corporation
San Francisco, CA
Monday, May 12, 2008
Ask Sandy: Could hotel deal too good to be true have repercussions in the end?
Hi...
Tried to get into your archive regarding a situation. We booked 4 rooms at a 5 Star Hotel in the Miami area for next year's spring break. The price for the room was $112.50 a night but probably should have been $1125.00. I booked the rooms, printed a confirmation, gave them a credit card number for deposit.
Can the hotel come back and say, OOPS, we made a mistake and then charge us the price they want to or do they have to stick by their quoted price? I could pay for the stay completely up front before they catch on to this or should I do nothing? Help!
Karen K.
Dayton, Ohio
[Stayed tuned to Sandy's Travel Blog for an answer!] 
Tried to get into your archive regarding a situation. We booked 4 rooms at a 5 Star Hotel in the Miami area for next year's spring break. The price for the room was $112.50 a night but probably should have been $1125.00. I booked the rooms, printed a confirmation, gave them a credit card number for deposit.
Can the hotel come back and say, OOPS, we made a mistake and then charge us the price they want to or do they have to stick by their quoted price? I could pay for the stay completely up front before they catch on to this or should I do nothing? Help!
Karen K.
Dayton, Ohio
[Stayed tuned to Sandy's Travel Blog for an answer!]
A Mother's Day Thank you
Hi Sandy,
I want to thank you for playing my interview this morning on your show. I do appreciate your help and support. I am so impressed with your accompaniments and your interview skills.
I'm in the process of updating my online class and textbook. Each week I hear something else I want to include. I've also used your website and a number of your sponsors and listed websites as additional resources for my students.
Hope you're making time for fun on your journey. Happy Mother's Day!
Thank you again,
Cherie Anderson
Professional Tour Management Training
949-830-8603
Friday, May 09, 2008
Happy Mother's Day from Sandy
Hi there and Happy Mother's Day weekend! We are celebrating here at TravelTalkRADIO by offering a free book! All you have to do is e-mail me a book name that you found in our library. If we have it, we will send it to you and if we don't, we will find something that is close to it!How's that! They don't call me Sandy Claus for nothing!
Have a great weekend and we are working on some great things coming up in China, Egypt, South Korea, Tanzania, and more! So stick around and let us know what you want to hear and were you want to go!
Safe travels and be sure to hug a Mom this weekend!
Sandy
Catch up with TravelTalkMEDIA Executive Producer and Host Sandy Dhuyvetter on Sandy's Travel Blog
(May 08, 2008 – San Diego, CA) – It’s hard to keep up with TravelTalkMEDIA Executive Producer and Host Sandy Dhuyvetter – until now. Logging thousands of miles each month traveling around the world, you just never know what country she's going to turn up in next.
Listeners and viewers now have a new way to catch up with the international traveler and radio host – via Sandy’s travel blog.
Just visit http://travelwithsandy.blogspot.com, or click on the link that says "Sandy’s Blog” on the right side of TravelTalkMEDIA’s homepage at www.traveltalkmedia.com.
At Sandy’s travel blog, viewers can read TravelTalkMEDIA’s latest press releases, see listener and guest e-mails, find great travel pictures taken by the TravelTalkMEDIA staff, read the latest travel stories from TravelTalkMEDIA, take a viewer poll and find links to other great travel websites.
Sandy’s travel blog is a unique and fun way to see what’s going on and what’s new at TravelTalkMEDIA. Plus, you can read messages from Sandy as she’s on the go, traveling around the world to bring you the latest and greatest news in the travel industry.
“We're pleased to welcome Nick Gosling to our TravelTalkMEDIA team. Nick is a young and up-and-coming travel journalist and we're delighted that he'll be helping us upkeep this blog," said Ms. Dhuyvetter. "The travel blog is a more casual information tool that allows our audience a more personal look at what we are doing at TravelTalkMEDIA."
Have questions about the show, suggestions or just want to say “Hi”? Leave a message on Sandy’s travel blog at http://travelwithsandy.blogspot.com.
“I have pledged my time to communicate in this venue and invite our audiences to join me to discuss their passions, their questions and ideas for a better tomorrow. We invite you to use our resources and build your network. If your interest is anywhere near the vicinity of travel, lifestyle, peace, prosperity and bringing the world together for better understanding, then you’ll enjoy it yourself. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.”
Think you’ve got a great travel photo?
E-mail it to nick@traveltalkmedia.com and TravelTalkMEDIA staff will post it on Sandy’s travel blog. Just include your name, where you’re from and what the photograph is of.
Don’t delay – sign on to Sandy’s travel blog at http://travelwithsandy.blogspot.com today and see what she’s up to next.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
A "Grand" View
A view of the Grand Canyon from the South Rim.
Staff Photo by Nick Gosling, TravelTalkMEDIA
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
TravelTalkMEDIA (TTM) Announces Coverage of Africa Travel Association’s 33rd Annual Congress in Arusha, Tanzania
May 6, 2008 – San Diego, California – Sandy Dhuyvetter, Executive Producer and Host of TravelTalkMEDIA, RADIO and TV, announced today that TTM will attend the Africa Travel Association’s (ATA) Annual Congress in Arusha, Tanzania, from May 19-23.
The ATA’s Annual Congress brings together tourism industry experts from many countries in Africa as well as North America, Europe and Asia. TravelTalkMEDIA provides visibility and event coverage for ATA through the company’s many distribution channels, including conventional and online radio and TV as well as online via the Internet.
“We’ve been a strategic media partner with the Africa Travel Association for the past five years and we really believe in their mission to bring Africa together and the valuable contribution ATA and its members make in bringing visibility to the tour and travel industry on the continent,” said Ms. Dhuyvetter.
“If you go to TravelTalkMEDIA.com and put ‘Africa’ into our internal search engine, you’re going to find many hours of programming that highlight the ATA and many of the countries that make up its membership. The ATA conference attracts tourism leaders from African nations and their ministries, and through educational forums, presentations and keynote speakers, each one of the nations is able to share their experiences and learn how to utilize their resources and build their economies through tourism.”
TTM will produce two back-to-back live radio programs while in Tanzania. The first show, which will be broadcast live from Arusha on Sunday, May 18th, will highlight the ATA, the Congress and its members, while the second show on Sunday, May 25th will focus on Tanzania as a destination and its many offerings to the traveler.
TTM has a long history of promoting tourism to Tanzania and in 2006, TravelTalkRADIO was honored with the 6th Annual Tanzania Tourism Board Media Award.
“This is our first time in Arusha and we are especially excited because Tanzania has been one of our long time destination favorites,” said Dhuyvetter. “Tanzania is one of the best countries to go to for your first experience of Africa – with a truly democratic government and conservancies that protect over 25 percent of its land, we believe Tanzania is a exemplary model for many African countries to follow.”
The five-day Congress program in Arusha will address topics such as new tourism growth markets, Asia outbound travel, and social responsibility in the travel industry. The event will include roundtables for ministers, tour operators and suppliers, networking events, a marketplace expo, host country days, gala dinners and award ceremonies, as well as pre- and post-country tours. The ATA’s Young Professionals Network and African Diaspora network, which were established at ATA’s 10th Annual Eco and Cultural Tourism Symposium in Nigeria in November of 2006, will also meet at the 33rd Congress.
In May of 1998, ATA held its first ever Congress in Arusha; and in December 2003, Zanzibar hosted ATA’s Eco and Cultural Tourism Symposium. Last year’s 32nd Annual Congress was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from May 6-11.
About the Africa Travel Association (ATA): The Africa Travel Association is the premier global travel association promoting tourism to Africa and intra-Africa travel and partnership since 1975. ATA members include ministries of tourism and culture, national tourism boards, airlines, hoteliers, travel agents, tour operators, travel trade media, public relations firms, students, NGOs, individuals and SME's. Upcoming ATA events include ATA's 11th Annual Eco and Cultural Tourism Symposium in Djibouti City, Djibouti from January 19-23, 2008 ATA's first Africa Sports and Tourism Market from 27-28 February at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, and ATA's 33rd Annual Congress in Arusha, Tanzania from May 19-23, 2008. For more information, visit ATA online at www.africatravelassociaton.org or call 1-212-447-1357.
Editorial Contact:
Nick Gosling
TravelTalkMEDIA
+1 760 753 1114
The ATA’s Annual Congress brings together tourism industry experts from many countries in Africa as well as North America, Europe and Asia. TravelTalkMEDIA provides visibility and event coverage for ATA through the company’s many distribution channels, including conventional and online radio and TV as well as online via the Internet.
“We’ve been a strategic media partner with the Africa Travel Association for the past five years and we really believe in their mission to bring Africa together and the valuable contribution ATA and its members make in bringing visibility to the tour and travel industry on the continent,” said Ms. Dhuyvetter.
“If you go to TravelTalkMEDIA.com and put ‘Africa’ into our internal search engine, you’re going to find many hours of programming that highlight the ATA and many of the countries that make up its membership. The ATA conference attracts tourism leaders from African nations and their ministries, and through educational forums, presentations and keynote speakers, each one of the nations is able to share their experiences and learn how to utilize their resources and build their economies through tourism.”
TTM will produce two back-to-back live radio programs while in Tanzania. The first show, which will be broadcast live from Arusha on Sunday, May 18th, will highlight the ATA, the Congress and its members, while the second show on Sunday, May 25th will focus on Tanzania as a destination and its many offerings to the traveler.
TTM has a long history of promoting tourism to Tanzania and in 2006, TravelTalkRADIO was honored with the 6th Annual Tanzania Tourism Board Media Award.
“This is our first time in Arusha and we are especially excited because Tanzania has been one of our long time destination favorites,” said Dhuyvetter. “Tanzania is one of the best countries to go to for your first experience of Africa – with a truly democratic government and conservancies that protect over 25 percent of its land, we believe Tanzania is a exemplary model for many African countries to follow.”
The five-day Congress program in Arusha will address topics such as new tourism growth markets, Asia outbound travel, and social responsibility in the travel industry. The event will include roundtables for ministers, tour operators and suppliers, networking events, a marketplace expo, host country days, gala dinners and award ceremonies, as well as pre- and post-country tours. The ATA’s Young Professionals Network and African Diaspora network, which were established at ATA’s 10th Annual Eco and Cultural Tourism Symposium in Nigeria in November of 2006, will also meet at the 33rd Congress.
In May of 1998, ATA held its first ever Congress in Arusha; and in December 2003, Zanzibar hosted ATA’s Eco and Cultural Tourism Symposium. Last year’s 32nd Annual Congress was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from May 6-11.
About the Africa Travel Association (ATA): The Africa Travel Association is the premier global travel association promoting tourism to Africa and intra-Africa travel and partnership since 1975. ATA members include ministries of tourism and culture, national tourism boards, airlines, hoteliers, travel agents, tour operators, travel trade media, public relations firms, students, NGOs, individuals and SME's. Upcoming ATA events include ATA's 11th Annual Eco and Cultural Tourism Symposium in Djibouti City, Djibouti from January 19-23, 2008 ATA's first Africa Sports and Tourism Market from 27-28 February at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, and ATA's 33rd Annual Congress in Arusha, Tanzania from May 19-23, 2008. For more information, visit ATA online at www.africatravelassociaton.org or call 1-212-447-1357.
Editorial Contact:
Nick Gosling
TravelTalkMEDIA
+1 760 753 1114
Sunday, May 04, 2008
To Sandy, From Louie (D'Amore, President of the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism)
Dear Sandy,
TravelTalkMEDIA has had a meteoric growth since your beginnings – so something is working.
I think more than patience, it's your dynamic, positive and always smiling personality!
You also have a great business and life partner in Patrick.
Had a look at the website – excellent design and content!
Look forward to seeing you somewhere soon – and not later than October.
By the way, this is again the “Week-end of Hope” here in Stowe, Vt., as I recall – we did an interview exactly a year ago today here.
All the best,
Lou
Lou
To Louie, From Sandy
Wow, we have such sweet memories Louie!
Thank you for the kind words. I am very grateful for Patrick; he makes my job so much fun, especially when we can travel together.
He will be with me in Tanzania and I am very happy about that too.
Wish you could join us. I wish you all could join us in this beautiful paradise.
warmest,
Sandy
Thank you for the kind words. I am very grateful for Patrick; he makes my job so much fun, especially when we can travel together.
He will be with me in Tanzania and I am very happy about that too.
Wish you could join us. I wish you all could join us in this beautiful paradise.
warmest,
Sandy
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