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Bob Lawrence Takes on Two Roles at Travel Impressions
Travel Impressions
has named industry
veteran Bob
Lawrence to the dual
roles of senior director,
Caribbean Destination,
and American Express Vacations
Product Key Linkage.
Lawrence joins Travel Impressions with
more than 30 years of travel industry experience
with a predominant focus in marketing
the Caribbean region. Most recently,
Lawrence was regional vice president
Caribbean product at LibGo Travel.
In his role as senior director, Caribbean
Destination, Lawrence will report to Paul
Darya Camacci is
stepping into Trafalgar's
newly created
position of Director,
National Accounts for
the Eastern Region.
Reporting to Susan Donegan, Vice President,
National Accounts, Darya brings over
Zar, vice president, Caribbean Destination,
Managed Brands and Airline/Car Relations
and will work closely with Pauline Abatamarco,
senior director, Caribbean Destination.
His key responsibilities will include:
acquisition and management of supplier
product and inventory; development and
fulfillment of marketing plans; promotion
of destinations; development of promotions;
and manage supplier relations.
In his product key linkage role for American
Express Vacations, Lawrence will report
to Francesca Bonavita, executive vice
president and general manager for American
Express Vacations, and will serve as liaison
for American Express Vacations with
15 years experience in the travel industry,
including senior executive sales positions
with Travel Counsellors USA and Auto Europe/Destination
Europe. Camacci has had
extensive interaction with the travel agency
community in sales and support positions in
the tour and lodging sector of the industry.
She will focus on strengthening Trafalgar's
all Travel Impressions destination teams.
This includes supporting American Express
Vacations customer and American Express
Cardmember strategy and vision, both online
and offline and communicating the
American Express Vacations product and
destination requirements.
Prior to joining Travel Impressions,
Lawrence held various positions during his
30-year tenure with LibGo Travel including
regional VP Caribbean product & Caribbean
marketing, VP Caribbean marketing and director
of Mexico marketing. Lawrence also
served as vice president product development
at National Leisure Group.Visit
www.TravelImpressions.com
Trafalgar Expands Sales Team with Camacci as Director
G R E E N C O R N E R — By Jim Moronek
How Green Was My Bali
You deserve this vacation. You’ve earned it and
you’re so ready for it, you can almost taste the
pan-seared chicken breast on leek fondue with
ginger cream. Yes, your chosen destination is
exotic Bali, maybe only because further from here
you cannot get. And you are treating yourself to a little
slathering of luxury travel (remember, you deserve this). So,
then, why that nagging sense of guilt?
Because, last week you attended a meeting protesting the
impact of tourism on your own peaceful little resort community,
that’s why. Because there’s a bumper sticker on your car
which reminds tailgaters to tread lightly on your planet if not
your tail. Mostly, because your neighbor just returned from an
“eco-vacation” boasting of her natural rice diet, her natural
campsites in the jungle, and her natural insect bites. “Took
only photographs; left only footprints,” she smirked. You plan
to take only battery-operated appliances and leave only credit
card vouchers (luxury, remember).
But now you wonder what damage the increasing invasion of
the tourist hordes (yourself among them) will befall Bali’s fragile
beauty. To the rescue comes a concept and a company called
Second Nature ~ Vacations for Body, Mind & Planet whose
goal is “to expand the idea of ‘green travel’ beyond the jungle so
that every traveler can make a positive contribution to the envi-
ronment on their
next vacation.” It
operates on the
principle that “ecological
sensitivity in
travel should be
‘second nature,’ and
not just an occa-
relationships with key East Coast-based National
Accounts while supporting the District
Sales Managers. Camacci's position complements
that of Marina Accardo, Director,
National Accounts for the Western Region
and Amanda Ogle, Sales Manager for the
home-based agency channel.
Visit www.trafalgar.com
sional issue, or limited
only to wilderness.” And what a relief to know that you
needn’t suffer jungle rot to experience environmentally correct
travel. Quite the contrary, the 5-star Oberoi Hotel & Resort on
Legian beach has caught your eye, where, among other exotic
amenities, “a spacious open-air bathroom of bamboo and marble
is set in a private, walled garden. With a riot of tropical flowers and
plants. Some say the gardener is a magician, and that all Balinese
are gardeners.” All this and a green conscience, too.
www.oberoihotels.com
Is this enough to qualify as “green travel?” Will the concept of
“Second Nature” save the planet? The first impulse is to contrast
these good intentions against the world-wide, rampant destruction
of rain forests, ozone layers and open spaces of which we are all
too familiar. On second thought, however, if every tourist were to
have wasted a little less and learned a little more and returned a
little more respectful of home as a resource, just maybe a second
chance at salvation could truly become second nature. For additional
information visit: www.lotustours.us
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