[Travelandtourism] Cheryl Echevarria, President - NFB Travel and Tourism Division becomes first of 8 Travel Partners to sit on the Norwegian Cruise Lines Advisory Board

[Don Gillmore]

CONGRAT'S CHERYL,  I knew you wer the person to take over the division and I
love what what you are doing for the blind comunity.
Don Gillmore

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Cruise Lines Advisory Board














For Immediate Release:
Echevarria Travel of
Brentwood, NY 

 

NCL U Advisory
Board Position with Norwegian Cruise Lines

 

Brentwood, NY -
August 7, 2012 - Today at the monthly webinar for Travel First Partners with
Norwegian Cruise Lines, they had announced their Norwegian Cruise Lines
University Board Program and the 8 people that will hold these positions on
a 1 year term.  It was announced that Cheryl Echevarria, Owner/Agent of
Echevarria Travel, located in Brentwood, NY, will be the first of the 8. 

To complete such a
feet with Norwegian Cruise Lines, there is criteria that must be met and all
these people have completed this task, plus help others in the travel
community, as well as with their clients.

     Andrew Stuart, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Passenger
Services, stated on the webinar, there were so many travel partners to
choose from and a difficult decision, but there were over 76 people
nominated for the new board, and these 8 people are our pick for the
2012-2013 year.

Comments from Cheryl Echevarria

     Cheryl Echevarria
says "It is an honor and wasn't an easy task to accomplish.  You first must
have completed the Norwegian Cruise Lines certification courses and the PhD.
Program, which consists of online training through the NCL University, and
also take a 7 day cruise when offered for the PhD completion of the program,
which includes 3 days of Cruise Lines International Association Class (CLIA)
seminars, which I hold a membership with for travel professionals to sell
cruises and other travel destinations, and must be renewed on a yearly
basis."  She also says, "This has taken almost 2 years to finish. Plus, I
had to sell a certain amount of cruises for the company as well to be even
considered."

Partnership with Norwegian
Cruise Lines and Echevarria Travel

     Since starting
Echevarria Travel in 2009, she has been working extremely hard with
Norwegian Cruise Lines to make the ships accessible for everyone, being
blind from diabetes and kidney failure since 2001, and is the current
President of the National Federation of the Blind, Travel and Tourism
Division.  She says that Norwegian has welcomed all her comments and has
improved greatly on the accessibility for all travelers, including the
implementation of Braille on all their ships, when others are going the way
of electrical devices, and they have an Access Department on every one of
their ships, and so much more in the works. 

 

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To Contact Echevarria Travel: 

           Cheryl Echevarria, Owner/Agent, 631-456-5394,
reservations at echevarriatravel.com

 

For more information on Echevarria Travel:

 

           Echevarria Travel started in 2009, by the only blind owner/agent
in the Tri-State Area, making travel accessible for everyone.

http://www.echevarriatravel.com/

 

About the
National Federation of the Blind

 

          With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the
Blind is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind
people in the United States. The NFB improves blind people's lives through
advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging
independence and self-confidence. It is the leading force in the blindness
field today and the voice of the nation's blind. In January 2004 the NFB
opened the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute, the first
research and training center in the United States for the blind led by the
blind.  http://www.nfb.org



Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
Cheryl Echevarria,
Ownerhttp://www.echevarriatravel.com631-456-5394reservations@echevarriatrave
l.comhttp://www.echevarriatravel.wordpress.com
2012 Norwegian Cruise Line University Advisory Board Member.
Help fuel the "Dream Machine" of the Imagination Fund by visiting
www.nfb.org/imaginationfund to make a donation using your credit card ortext
the word "blind" to 85944 and you will automatically donate $10 worth of
fuel via your cell phone bill.


 

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