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Christina, Department Manager – Christina comes to Tangerine Travel with more than nineteen years of corporate, group, and management experience. She has been involved in organizing groups from 30 to 5,000 attendees, including corporate meetings, leisure travel, and incentive travel. Christina has managed all aspects of group travel including on-site assistance, registration, meal planning, meeting set-up, excursion planning - whatever your group event requires. She works closely with management at Tangerine Travel, sharing each department’s experiences and maintaining a high level of inter-departmental collaboration. Christina has traveled extensively all over the U.S. and as far away as Europe, Mexico, and Korea. Her most memorable trips have been Kona, Hawaii, and Eastern U.S. coastal towns. Christina enjoys working with Girl Scouts, Children’s Theater, and helping out at her local school district. In Christina’s spare time she enjoys decorating, remodeling, the theater, but mostly family time.
Carleen – Carleen has an extensive corporate and leisure travel background. Carleen has been working with group travel for more then ten years, booking groups to Bangkok, Thailand; Johannesburg, South Africa; the Hawaiian Islands; and many other international and domestic destinations. Carleen’s favorite places in the world are Heidelberg, Germany; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; and New Orleans. Carleen’s personal hobbies include hiking, movies, traveling and hanging out with family and friends.
Merle – Merle is an ace negotiator, always managing to secure the best air, hotel, and ground contracts possible. Merle has been in the travel business for more then 17 years and is tops at knowing the ins and outs of the ever-changing travel industry. Merle has never met a destination she hasn't liked! Although Merle comes from Hawaii, she now calls the Pacific Northwest her home and she spends most of her winter weekends at local ski resorts.
Cathy – Cathy started in the travel industry in 1980, working primarily with travelers. In 1986, Cathy found an exciting job with a travel company on a military base, helping our military travel both for official government work as well as their much needed vacations. One her best memories of this portion of her travel career, was standing on the pier in Bremerton watching the USS Nimitz pull into port after a 9 month cruise, proudly escorted by the Blue Angels. After leaving that position the next nine years found Cathy in an even more exciting and challenging opportunity within the corporate community as she became a dedicated travel agent to the same account, "My clients became friends and some even like family". Cathy has also work as a tech support specialist for an online booking engine, supporting direct customers and travel agents with all aspects of the very complex product. It was in early 2007, Cathy found her home here at Tangerine Travel in the Groups Travel department! Much to her delight and surprise, she was reunited with former co-workers. "The Seattle area is a tight community of career industry professionals, and it was wonderful to be so welcomed and immediately feel so connected." Cathy is married and she loves to cook, garden, read, and travel to sunny places and cruise the Caribbean.
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