[Blindtlk] Monthly teleconference meeting of the Travel and Tourism Division, Monday, May 21st at 8PM Eastern.

Mon May 14 20:26:06 UTC 2012

Just to answer Mr. Donahue's question the people that I am working with for the  tours, is the sister company to the one we used all the other times in Dallas, the only reason that the tours were offered during the convention is because, first they were offering in the past braille monitor, also they have buses of people 20+ already booked, so the tour company came to the Anatole to offer people the options, they will not offer it unless there was enough interested people going in the first place.
They were going to offer us this service, but no one contact me about the tours accept for the Jersey Boys, I wasn't going to put that into the Braille Monitor, then no one would book and they wouldn't come to the hotel.
FYI, I know my business, and also read over the past braille monitors.
So again, this service was going to be offered, but since we had drips and drabs they will not be coming to the hotel during the convention to register people for tours.
The tour company needed at least a head count by tomorrow. 
I am not going to continue this, you already made your thought known on the travel and tourism division.
Have a great day, everyone!
Cheryl Echevarria, PresidentTravel and Tourism Division

Leading the Way in Independent Travel!

Cheryl Echevarria
http://www.echevarriatravel.com
631-456-5394
reservations at echevarriatravel.com

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> From: pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:04:45 -0500
> CC: braille at satx.rr.com
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Monthly teleconference meeting of the Travel and	Tourism Division, Monday, May 21st at 8PM Eastern.
> 
> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
> Considering that no consideration was given to giving people the chance to 
> purchase tours during the national convention isn't it no wonder. We 
> suggested this to the Travel and tourism Division and were met with deaf 
> ears. This is something that was done for years prior to the convention 
> being shortened a day. We told you so.
> 
> Peter Donahue
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
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> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 2:13 PM
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Monthly teleconference meeting of the Travel and Tourism 
> Division, Monday, May 21st at 8PM Eastern.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Travel and Tourism Division, a proud division of the National Federation 
> of the Blind, will be having it's monthly meeting for all interested.
> The meeting will be held at 8PM Eastern, 7PM Central, 6pm Mountain, and 5pm 
> Pacific Times.
> All board members please attend, if you cannot attend, please let me know.
> Meeting will be discussing the National Convention in Dallas, TX.  I will be 
> discussing elections, meeting, and the updates on the fundraiser that went 
> on with the tours of Dallas, which by the way only Jersey Boys for June 
> 30th, is the only one we had more than 10 people booking for we have 4+ 
> seats left that I can sell until June 15th, 2012 the other tours didn't get 
> off the ground, seems like either there was no interest.   So far raised 
> over $100.00 for the Division.
> We will be talking the upcoming year, and group travel plans.
> Call in information:
>  Please call 1-805-360-1000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 
> 1-805-360-1000      end_of_the_skype_highlighting When the recording goes on 
> it will ask for you access code: Which is 871517#Please note: This 
> conference will be recorded. Participation in the conference implies an 
> agreement to and authorization for such recording in compliance with state 
> and federal laws.During the conference call, participants may use the 
> following commands:*3 exits the conference and puts you in the lobby.
> *6 mutes the participant. Pressing the command again unmutes the 
> participant.
> 
> Q&A will be opened at the end of the meeting to all.
> 
> Come and join and find out what the Travel and Tourism is doing, we want to 
> hear from you as well.
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Cheryl Echevarria, President
> Travel and Tourism Division
> National Federation of the Blind
> cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com  Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
> 
> Cheryl Echevarria
> http://www.echevarriatravel.com
> 631-456-5394
> reservations at echevarriatravel.com
> 
> For daily updates read our blog at
> http://www.echevarriatravel.wordpress.com
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