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

Wed Aug 8 22:09:08 UTC 2012

Thank you thank you. I believe I also posted it on the NYAGDU page as well.

Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
Cheryl Echevarria, Ownerhttp://www.echevarriatravel.com631-456-5394reservations@echevarriatravel.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.

Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:24:04 -0400
From: margo.downey at verizon.net
To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Cheryl Echevarria, President - NFB Travel and Tourism Division becomes first of 8 Travel Partners to sit on the Norwegian Cruise Lines Advisory Board

Cheryl! This is awesome! Congrats!  Woo-hoo!

Margo and Arrow

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Date: Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012 04:20:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Cheryl Echevarria, President — NFB Travel and Tourism Division becomes first of 8 Travel Partners to sit on the Norwegian Cruise Lines Advisory Board

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> 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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> To: travelandtourism; nyagdu
> Subject: [Travelandtourism] Cheryl Echevarria, President — NFB Travel and
> Tourism Division becomes first of 8 Travel Partners to sit on the Norwegian
> Cruise Lines Advisory Board
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> For Immediate Release:
> Echevarria Travel of
> Brentwood, NY 
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> NCL U Advisory
> Board Position with Norwegian Cruise Lines
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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>      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.
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> Comments from Cheryl Echevarria
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>      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."
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> Partnership with Norwegian
> Cruise Lines and Echevarria Travel
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>      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: 
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>            Cheryl Echevarria, Owner/Agent, 631-456-5394,
@> reservations at echevarriatravel.com
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> For more information on Echevarria Travel:
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>            Echevarria Travel started in 2009, by the only blind owner/agent
> in the Tri-State Area, making travel accessible for everyone.
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@> http://www.echevarriatravel.com/
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> About the
> National Federation of the Blind
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>           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
@> bl4  http://www.nfb.org
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> Leading the Way in Independent Travel!
> Cheryl Echevarria,
@> ,[n]http://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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