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Professionals WithIn Travel – Los Angeles Chapter
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PRESIDENT'S
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Our Mission
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To promote and maintain a committed group of professional women and men
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September 2010
Hello Everyone!
It is with great pleasure that I begin this year as President of Professionals Within Travel.
I must admit that it may take my entire year in office to remember our politically correct name,
as I had started years ago as a Professional Women in Travel Member!
So, gentlemen, this is for you...please join us! What I treasure about this organization is
the genuine passion that members share for this industry. Vendors and Travel Retailers become
friends, networking is not an accurate enough description, yet members support each other outside
of meetings as well! At our meetings, we not only have great speakers, but share trials,
tribulations and successes all with a great deal of laughter...some of it wine induced,
much of it, not! And...to make sure that our good fortune of doing something we love is
shared just a little bit with those who need a little good luck, we also fundraise to assist
CATS at Northridge Hospital. What this incredible organization does to support victims
of violence is beyond words. To learn more see www.abuse-assaultservices.org.
So, ladies and gentlemen, the next time you're leaving the office...or leaving your
home office at the end of the day, ask yourself if you don't need to reward yourself
with an evening spent with wonderful colleagues! Please feel free to call me,
or any of our members for more information. We're having so much fun...it's
just not fair if we don't share!
With kind regards,
Tama Taylor Holve, CTC, CTIE
President Professionals Within Travel
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Anyone actively engaged in the sale and promotion of travel, in an established travel business entity, applying for membership is eligible. Men and women involved in both inside and outside sales are eligible. However those strictly in clerical, secretarial, accounting or operational activities with no sales or promotional involvement are not eligible. A travel firm may have more than one member of its staff in PWIT-LA. It is not necessary for an employer to sponsor an applicant.
Membership may be either Corporate (paid and retained by the company if the member leaves that company. That company may then formally apply for another eligible employee to replace that member ) or Individual (wherein the member pays to join and retains their membership in the event of job change). Dues (subject to change) are currently $35.00 for Travel Agents and $50.00 for Suppliers, which cover our fiscal year of July 1st to June 30th |
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Our Board of Directors normally meets on the second Monday of the month at a location to be advised on the CALENDAR page of this website. If location is not posted, contact the PRESIDENT for more details. All members are invited to attend. Meet the board and become involved!
In 1998, Travellarians Los Angeles became Professional Women in Travel, a name more easily identifiable with and a charter member of IFWTO, the International Federation of Women's Travel Organizations worldwide. Due to the changes in our industry since September 11, 2001, we found it necessary to divest ourselves from IFWTO. More recently, many of our members have affiliated themselves with a newly formed international travel organization called Women In Tourism International Alliances, Ltd. also known as WITIA .
With more men expressing interest in the organization, we deemed it appropriate in 2008 to change our name to reflect the broader membership.
For general or specific information, please email us or visit our BOARD MEMBERS page to e-mail the appropriate board member for an immediate reply. To RSVP for our monthly meeting, please click on MEETING/RSVP.
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