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Christina, Department Manager – Christina comes to Tangerine Travel with more than twenty 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 planned events all over the U.S. and as far away as Europe, Mexico, and Asia. Christina enjoys traveling to sunny locations and sightseeing areas with old world charm and historic buildings. Christina also enjoys the theater, dancing, helping out at her local school district, and cheering on her daughter's volleyball games.
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.
Becky – Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Becky has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1991. She lives in Everett with her husband Pat and two furkids (cats) Tommie and Abi. She graduated in 1986 from the American College of Travel and has spent 20 years as a corporate agent at several agencies, and two years as a dedicated on-site agent for a large fishing company. Becky loves to travel and has been to Italy, France, Spain, Canary Islands, Egypt, Morocco, England, Ireland, Caribbean, Bahamas, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico and all over the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii. Her most recent trip was to Tahiti this past March. Of all of her travels, her very favorite destination is Florence, Italy. In her spare time she enjoys playing the piano, baking, reading (Stephen King and Dean Koontz are favorites), watching scary movies and Hockey – Go Canucks!
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.
Jana - Jana was born and raised in the Seattle area. Jana has been in the travel industry for over 12 years. She started out with MarkAir in reservations Seattle and Denver. Jana then worked for America West on the ramp and as a customer service agent at Sea-Tac. In 1997 she moved to corporate travel working for several agencies prior to joining Tangerine travel. Interesting fact.....Jana's father is an identical twin, she is an identical twin and she has fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. Jana's twin sister Jill is also in the travel industry.
Jana lives in Renton with her partner and their 3 children. Jana has traveled to all but 6 states, Mexico, Jamaica, Thailand, Japan, Greece, London, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She is a huge Disney fan and has been to Disneyland, Disneyworld and Disneyland Tokyo. While in high school she was an exchange student in Reutlingen Germany.
Lorraine - Lorraine has over 20 years experience in the travel industry. The last 6 years have been in the groups department where she has worked on groups of 10-5000. Groups and corporate travel have been her career while working in Alaska, Arizona, Georgia and in the great state of Washington. Vacation travels include Alaska, Mexico, Hawaii, Australia, Tahiti and across the US. She was born and raised in Alaska, but now lives on a little farm here in Washington. Lorraine is married and has 2 girls, age 12 and 7. Her family is active in junior rodeos and 4H horse club. In her spare time Lorraine loves to hunt, fish, camp and explore the great outdoors on horseback.
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