NAJ Summit WEST: February 16-17, 2010, Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles, CA
NAJ Summit EAST: June 16-17, 2010, Holiday Inn Midtown, New York, NY
NAJ Summit EAST: June 16-17, 2010, Holiday Inn Midtown, New York, NY
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2009/10 PARTICIPANTS:
NAJ Summit WEST, 2010
NAJ Summit EAST, 2009 (past conference)
NAJ SUMMIT WEST 2010 - LIST OF BUYERS
(Subject to change. Last updated 2/9/10)
| ALL AMERICAN TOURS | Edie Behler | Director of Sales |
| ALLIEDTPRO LOS ANGELES | Gina Jackson | Groups Manager & VIP Services |
| ALLIEDTPRO LOS ANGELES | Tina Thompson | Escorted Tour Supervisor |
| AMERICA 4 YOU L.L.C. | Elisabeth "Sissy" Gibbs | Product Manager, Special Groups/Fly-Drive |
| AMERICA TRAVEL FACTORY | Tsutomu Natsuhara | General Manager |
| AMERICA TRAVEL FACTORY | Aiko Yamada | |
| AMERICA TRAVEL FACTORY | Mayu Yamada | Package and FIT |
| AMERICABOUND TOURS | Donald Meldrum | Vice President |
| AMERICAN RING TRAVEL | Anne Schmidt | Vice President |
| AMEXPO, INC | Heping Xu | Owner |
| ATI | Aminta Vasquez-Billot | Groups |
| ATI | Magdalena Borek-Mann | Groups |
| ATI | Jessica Ryan | Groups |
| ATI | Ella Benthale | Groups |
| ATI | Graham Bendelow | Product Director |
| ATI | Alan Puana | Director of domestic Product Dev. |
| BONOTEL EXCLUSIVE TRAVEL | Dana Sporn | |
| CALI'FUN LLC | Benoit Cerceau | President |
| CALI'FUN LLC | Amelie Romanet | Reservation Manager |
| CENTURY VACATION CORP | Bryan Yan Zhuang | President |
| DREAM VACATION BUILDERS | Joab Flores | Director of Sales |
| DREAM VACATION BUILDERS | Robert Gesell | Sales & Marketing Manager |
| EUROUSA | Vivian Dapal | Product Manager-West |
| EUROUSA | Tousson El-Barrawi | Sales Manager |
| GTA BY TRAVELPORT | Sevil Arnavutoglu-Le | Area Manager |
| GTA BY TRAVELPORT | Ketty Celifie | Market Manager |
| GTA BY TRAVELPORT | Melissa Gulliver | Services Contractor |
| GTA BY TRAVELPORT | Ivar Hottentot | |
| HARVEST TOURS | Jasper Pang | Director of Sales & Marketing |
| HOTELBEDS ACCOMMODATION AND DESTIONATION SERVICES | Neil Emerson | Vice President |
| HOTELBEDS ACCOMMODATION AND DESTIONATION SERVICES | Ted Ladomerszky | |
| HYDE INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC | Jessie Bi | General Manager |
| HYDE INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC | Shadow Wu | |
| HYDE INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC | Nathan Zhu | Tour Operator |
| IACE TRAVEL | Sachiko Tani | Tour Operator |
| IACE TRAVEL CO. LTD | Seigo Odaka | Inbound Manager |
| JALPAK INTERNATIONAL | Tom Katsumata | Manager, Inbound USA Group Operatations |
| JALPAK INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, INC. | Marie Tanaka | Technical Visits & Conference Dept. |
| JBS GROUP INC. | Barbara Ansel | Senior Vice President |
| JBS GROUP INC. | Sarah Gao | VP of Int'l. Relations Division |
| KINTETSU INTERNATIONAL | Seji Koyama | Assistant General Manager |
| LION TOURS USA, INC. | Christopher Chan | Sales Manager |
| LION TOURS USA, INC. | Tina Yang | Sales Manager |
| MEETING POINT NORTH AMERICA | Kenneth Schwartz | Product Manager, Western Region |
| MIKI TOURS | Kelly Sullivan | Contractor, US/Western States |
| NEW WORLD TRAVEL INC. | Katrin Krausse | |
| NEW WORLD TRAVEL INC. | Sylvia Maw | Supervisor Groups |
| NTA AMERICA, INC. | Mariko Brause | Marketing Manager |
| NTA AMERICA, INC. | Makiko Irimoto | Hotel Operations |
| R & C TOURS USA, INC. | Eiji Yamagata | General Manager |
| TEAMAMERICA INC | Kathy Formosa | Director of Contracting West |
| TOUR AMERICA | Frances Lam | Operations Manager |
| TOUR AMERICA INC | Johnny Azhar | Manager MICE |
| TOUR AMERICA INC | Danny Chow | Asst. Operations Manager |
| TOURICO HOLIDAYS | Kelly Brady | SW & Hawaiian Islands Product Development Mgr. |
| TOURICO TRAVEL SYSTEMS | Uri Argov | CEO |
| TTA.COM | Hiromi Mori | Tour Coordinator |
NAJ SUMMIT WEST 2010 - LIST OF SUPPLIERS
(Subject to change. Last updated 2/1/10)
| ADVENTURE PHOTO TOURS/APT LIMO | Will Tryon | VP |
| AMARILLO CVB | Jutta Matalka | Director of Tourism |
| AMERICANA CONFERENCE RESORT & SPA | Maria Mancuso | Senior Sales Manager |
| AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER | Julia Bensfield | Marketing Coordinator |
| BARTELL HOTELS OF SAN DIEGO | Dana Irby | Head of International Sales |
| BEST WESTERN INTERNATIONAL | Lisa Cully | Worldwide Sales Manager |
| BEVERLY HILLS CONFERENCE & VISITORS BUREAU | Stephanie Nakasone | Business Development Director |
| BILTMORE HOTEL & SUITES | Monty Criss | DOSM |
| BLUE MAN GROUP | Cory Brooks | Sales Manager |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | Tammie Herold Wallace | Travel Industry Manager, Asia US |
| CHICAGO CONVENTION AND TOURISM BUREAU | Patrick Steffes | Manager of Tourism Sales and Operations |
| CHICAGO'S ESSEX INN | Mary Twomey | Director of Sales & Marketing |
| CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL | Julie Tsuchiya | National Sales Director |
| CITYPASS | Kat Plourde | Director, Tourism Sales & Marketing |
| COLORADO TOURISM OFFICE | Diana Carey | International Marketing Manager |
| COMFORT INN BY THE BAY | Henrietta Weiner | Director of Sales |
| CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS | Heather Hughes | Group Sales Manager |
| DAYS INN - CANADA | Kelly Heer | National Sales Manager |
| DESTINATION QUEBEC/TOURISM QUEBEC | Heather Fernandez | |
| DNC PARKS & RESORTS | Gene Hagberg | National Tour & Travel Sales Manager |
| EASY BUS RENTAL, LLC | Charles de Gaspe Beaubien | President |
| EMBASSY SUITES SAN DIEGO BAY | Rodrigo Arandia | Sales Manager |
| EXCEL HOTEL GROUP | Jason Everson | VP Operations and Sales |
| FIVE STAR TOURS & CHARTER COMPANY | Alfonso Hernandez | GM/Product Innovator |
| FOREVER RESORTS | Michelle Kien | Sales & Marketing Manager |
| FORT WORTH CVB | Estela Martinez-Stuart | Director of Tourism |
| FUTURE OF FLIGHT AVIATION CENTER & BOEING TOUR | Sandy Ward | Director of Marketing |
| GRAND CANYON RAILWAY | Reno Gazzola | Regional Sales Mgr., Southern CA & Int'l. Accounts |
| GRAND SIERRA RESORT | Kerri Countess | Sales Manager |
| GRAY LINE OF ALASKA | Brad Zorich | Sales Manager |
| GRAY LINE/SAN FRANCISCO SIGHTSEEING/COACH AMERICA | Noreen Valera | Director of Marketing & Sales |
| HANDLERY HOTEL & RESORTS - SAN DIEGO | Daisy Evangelista | Sales Manager |
| HORNBLOWER CRUISES & EVENTS | Gretchen Grossman | Associate Director of Sales |
| HOTEL CARMEL | Angela Rogers | Executive Mgr., Admin., Sales & Accounting |
| HOUSTON CVB (GREATER) | Angela McClellan | International Tourism Marketing Manager |
| HOUSTON CVB (GREATER) | Leo Yao | Asia Pacific Representative |
| INNS OF MONTEREY | Todd Wessing | Associate Director of Sales |
| JOIE DE VIVRE HOTELS | Alina Wade | Associate Director of Sales |
| JOHN HANCOCK OBSERVATORY | Carey Randall | Director of Sales & Marketing |
| KIMPTON HOTELS | Matthew King | Area Sales Manager |
| KIMPTON HOTELS & RESTAURANTS | Cory Rosenberg | Area Accounts Manager |
| LA INC. THE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU | Tamy Ly | Mgr., Travel Industry Sales & Marketing |
| LA VALENCIA HOTEL | Cathleen Flowers | Director of Sales |
| LAS CRUCES CVB | Andrea Lawrence | Tourism Sales Manager |
| LAS VEGAS CVA | Rafael Villanueva | Director of International Sales |
| LITTLE ROCK CVB | Mariko Cobb | International Tourism Manager |
| LONG BEACH CVB | Nicole Davis | Travel Sales Manager |
| LOEWS LAKE LAS VEGAS | Jenny Gasalao | Travel Industry Sales Manager |
| LOUISIANA OFFICE OF TOURISM | Erin Rolfs | Programs and Services, International |
| MACY'S | Brian Chuan | Regional Manager, Visitor Services |
| MADAME TUSSAUDS LAS VEGAS | Jacinta Jose | Trade Sales Manager |
| MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN SKI AREA | Eric Kertzman | Sales Manager - Tour Operations |
| MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN SKI AREA | James Van Deusen | Destination Sales Manager |
| MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF TRAVEL & TOURISM | Shoko Hirao | Marketing Consultant |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | Lisa Shipley | Regional Sales Manager |
| MONTEREY COUNTY CVB | Anne Auburn | Account Executive |
| NEW ORLEANS METROPOLITAN CVB | Martha Martinez | Tourism Sales Manager |
| NIAGARA USA - TOURISM & CONVENTION CORPORATION | Elizabeth Davis | Director of Sales |
| PALM SPRINGS AERIAL TRAMWAY | Nancy Nichols | Vice President, Sales & Marketing |
| PLANET HOLLYWOOD RESORT & CASINO | Elsa Gomez | Leisure Sales manager-Groups |
| PRIMM VALLEY RESORTS | Mynor Guerra | Vice President of Sales |
| RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL - SAN DIEGO | Sandra Barnhart | Sales & Catering Manager |
| RAPID CITY CVB | Michelle Thomson | Tourism Director |
| RENO - TAHOE, AMERICA'S ADVENTURE PLACE | Ralph Witsell | Executive Director, Travel Industry Sales |
| SAN ANTONIO CVB | Carla Norwood | Tourism Sales Manager |
| SAN DIEGO CVB | Brian Said | Director of Tourism |
| SANTA CLARA CVB | David Andre | VP of Marketing & Communications |
| SANTA MONICA CVB | Lauren Rogers | Senior Manager, Sales and Services |
| SEATTLE'S CVB | Michael Kurtz | Director, Tourism Development-Asia |
| SHILO INNS SUITES HOTELS | Scott Hartcorn | Global Sales Director |
| SIERRA NEVADA LODGE | Katy Donoghue | Sales Manager |
| SKYDECK CHICAGO | Faith Mulvihill | Director of Sales and Events |
| SNOHOMISH COUNTY TOURISM BUREAU | Amy Spain | Executive Director |
| SONOMA COUNTY TOURISM BUREAU | Chyrl Collins | Tour & Travel Sales Manager |
| SOUTH DAKOTA DEPT. TOURISM | Maureen Droz | Trade Sales & Marketing Manager |
| SUNDANCE HELICOPTERS- LAS VEGAS | Gail Stewart | International Sales |
| TERRA RESORT GROUP | Erin Ennis | National Sales Manager |
| TEXAS TOURISM | Margo Richards | Tourism Marketing Specialist |
| THE RITZ-CARLTON, MARINA DEL REY | Tara Mittal | Business & Leisure Sales Manager |
| TOWN & COUNTRY RESORT HOTEL | Terry Sobkowiak | Director of Commerce |
| TRAVEL OREGON | Petra Nahr | Sales & Marketing Manager - Europe |
| TRAVEL OREGON | Rob Thomas | Asia Sales & Marketing Manager |
| TRAVEL PORTLAND | Karen Viehoever | International Tourism Manager - Europe |
| TREASURE ISLAND AT THE MIRAGE | Jenifer Isa | Leisure Sales Manager |
| VANTAGE HOSPITALITY GROUP, INC. | Judy DiPietro | Vice President, Travel Industry Sales |
| VISION HOLIDAYS | Richard Nielson | Vice President |
| WYNN LAS VEGAS/ENCORE | Tiffany Majors | Senior Travel Industry Sales Manager |
WYNN LAS VEGAS/ENCORE |
Kidist Grznar |
Travel Industry Sales |
NAJ SUMMIT EAST 2009 - LIST OF BUYERS
(Subject to change. Last updated 6/11/09)
| ALLIEDTPRO NEW YORK | Stacy Spangler | Director of DMC East |
| ALLIEDTPRO NEW YORK | Nita Advani | Sr. Group Manager |
| ALLIEDTPRO NEW YORK | Lynn Dempsey | Sr. Group Manager |
| ALLIEDTPRO NEW YORK | Vesna Markovic | Group Manager |
| AMERICANTOURS INTERNATIONAL | Lisa Camardella | Sr. Mgr. Special Groups & Incentives |
| AMERICANTOURS INTERNATIONAL | Eric Hofer | Sr. Mgr., Groups & Incentives |
| AMNET USA, INC. | Shinsuke Imaoka | Supervisor |
| AMNET USA, INC. | Yasutaka Kambe | Branch Manager |
| AMNET USA, INC. | Atsuko Yanagihara | Supervisor, Marketing & Planning |
| BLUE TIME CONSULTING | Diane Dagrosa | Meeting Planner |
| BONOTEL EXCLUSIVE TRAVEL | Gerrit De Vos | VP Business Dev. |
| CANAM TRAVEL SERVICES | Betty Davila | |
| CANAM TRAVEL SERVICE | Pamela Cabezas | Contracting |
| DESTINATION NORTH AMERICA | Dietmar Postl | President |
| FANTASTIC TOURS & TRAVEL | Gary Gomels | Adult Tours |
| FIVE A INCENTIVE PLANNERS | Magaly Buitrago | Director Groups & Incentive Planners |
| FIVE A INCENTIVE PLANNERS | Gloria Foley | VIP FIT Managert |
| FIVE A INCENTIVE PLANNERS | Ernesto Tecco | Group Manager |
| FTI NORTH AMERICA, INC. | Helen Woodward | Product Manager, Eastern Region |
| GASTALDI USA | Josephine Formato | Contracting/Group Coordinator |
| GITS INC. - GLOBAL INDEPENDENT TRAVEL SERVICES | Chia-Lin Chang | Vice President |
| GITS INC. - GLOBAL INDEPENDENT TRAVEL SERVICES | Carl Schinina | President |
| GTA BY TRAVELPORT | Bee Dengilioglu | Marketing Manager, North America |
| GTA BY TRAVELPORT | Amanda Sheehan | Destination Services Manager |
| GTA BY TRAVELPORT | Oleg Likhashkin | Hotel Reservation Div. |
| H.I.S. | Sachiyo Takeda | |
| H.I.S. | Chiharu Nakajima | |
| IACE TRAVEL | Yasuji Hanada | Branch Manager |
| IACE TRAVEL | Kayo Ito | Travel Consultant |
| JTB TRAVEL NETWORK CO. | Fuyuko Asano | Operations |
| MAGIC TOURS | TBA | |
| M-TRAVEL SWITZERLAND (HOTELPLAN/SKYTOURS) | Herbie Mueller | Area Manager USA |
| NEW WORLD TRAVEL | Katharina Doerr | Sales & Product Coordinator |
| NEW WORLD TRAVEL | Caroline Kurz | Groups & Incentive Coordinator |
| RAGLIN MEETING AND EVENTS UNLIMITED | Norma Raglin | President |
| REIS TOUR & TRAVEL | Janice Becker | Managing Director |
| REIS TOUR & TRAVEL | Brian Lincoln | Tour Coordinator |
| REIS TOUR & TRAVEL | Marilyn Reis | President |
| TEAMAMERICA | Robin Sammartino | Director of Contracting East & Vegas |
| TOURICO HOLIDAY, INC. | Dermot Quigley | Product Manager |
| TRAVALCO | Giovanna Bello | Director, Product Dev. |
| VIRGIN HOLIDAYS | Kieran O'Shea | Resort Services Supervisor |
| VISIT AMERICA | Isabell Prior | Tour Operator |
| VISIT AMERICA INC. | Erich Aeschlimann | President |
NAJ SUMMIT EAST 2009 - LIST OF SUPPLIERS
(Subject to change. Last updated 6/18/09)
| ADAM'S MARK BUFFALO NIAGARA | Patrick Keyes | Tour & Travel Sales Manager |
| ADVENTURE PHOTO TOURS | Will Tryon | VP |
| AMERICANA CONFERENCE RESORT & SPA | Maria Mancuso | Senior Sales Manager |
| AMERICA'S PREMIER SHOPPING PLACES - NE | Carolyn Feimster | Tourism Representative |
| AMICUS INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY SERVICES | Carri Tovsky | Director of Client Services |
| ARK RESTAURANTS | Andrea O'Brien | Director of Tour and Travel |
| ARNAUDS RESTAURANT | Lisa Sins | Director of Sales and Marketing |
| ATLANTA CVB | Jesus Garcia | Manager, International Tourism |
| AUSTIN CVB | Adriana Jimenez | Director of Tourism |
| BALLYS/CAESARS/HARRAH'S ATLANTIC CITY | Karen Tarnovski | Sales Manager |
| BEST WESTERN INTERNATIONAL | Jim D'Amato | Director - Key Accounts |
| BF SAUL COMPANY - HOTEL DIVISION | Kelly Graber | Regional Sales Manager |
| BF SAUL COMPANY - HOTEL DIVISION | TBA | |
| BLUE MAN GROUP | Mary Frembgen | Group Sales Manager |
| CHICAGO CONVENTION AND TOURISM BUREAU | Patrick Steffes | Manager of Tourism Sales and Operations |
| CHICAGO'S ESSEX INN | Mary Twomey | Director of Sales & Marketing |
| CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS | Heather Hughes | Group Sales Manager |
| COURT OF TWO SISTERS | June Fallo | Director of Sales |
| CROWNE PLAZA BOSTON NEWTON HOTEL | Katie Fernandes | Leisure Travel Sales Manager |
| CROWNE PLAZA NIAGARA FALLS | Elizabeth Pelton | Director of Tour & Travel |
| DAYTONA BEACH AREA CVB | Alexandra "Sandy" Lucania | Director of Sales |
| DESTINATION CINEMA INC | Cindy Gagnon | Sales Mgr., |
| DESTINATION CINEMA INC | Kevin M. Hicks | Director of International Sales |
| DESTINATION QUEBEC | Florentina Florescu | Tour and Travel Manager |
| FLORIDA'S SPACE COAST OFFICE OF TOURISM | Kalina Subido Person | International Sales and Marketing Director |
| FORT LAUDERDALE CVB (GREATER) | Fernando Harb | Director of Tour and Travel Sales |
| GEORGIA TOURISM | Katie Baasen | Senior Sales Manager |
| GETTYSBURG CVB | Jeanne Vice | Sales & Marketing Director |
| HIGHGATE HOTELS | Valerie Dillon | Senior Sales Manager |
| HOUSTON CVB (GREATER) | Angela McClellan | International Tourism Marketing Manager |
| JOHN HANCOCK OBSERVATORY | Carey Randall | Director of Sales & Marketing |
| LOUISIANA OFFICE OF TOURISM | Erin Rolfs | |
| MACY'S VISITORS SERVICES | Kristen Esposito | VP, Visitors Services and Tourism |
| MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF TRAVEL & TOURISM | Shoko Hirao | Marketing Consultant |
| MISSISSIPPI DIVISION OF TOURISM | Kristen McCaskill | International Sales Manager |
| MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST CVB | Annette Rand | Manager, Destination Sales |
| NEW ORLEANS METROPOLITAN CVB | Connie Campbell | Tourism Sales Manager |
| NIAGARA HELICOPTERS LIMITED | Aneta Fleming | Director of Sales & Marketing |
| NIAGARA USA - TOURISM & CONVENTION CORP. | Elizabeth Davis | Director of Sales |
| ON & OFF BROADWAY | Tedda Fenichel | President |
| PHILADELPHIA CVB | Svetlana Yazovskikh | Tourism Service Manager |
| PLANET HOLLYWOOD | Matt Luckett | Sales Manager |
| PLYMOUTH COUNTY CVB | Paula Fisher | Marketing Manager |
| POCONO MOUNTAINS CVB | Ann Pilcher | Tourism Sales Manager |
| RADISSON PLAZA WARWICK HOTEL PHILADEPHIA | Samantha Boyle, CHSP | Sales Manager |
| RENO - TAHOE, AMERICA'S ADVENTURE PLACE | Ralph Witsell | Executive Director, Travel Industry Sales |
| ROCKFORD AREA CVB | Lindsay Whale | International Sales |
| SKYLON TOWER | Kelly Heer | Group Sales Manager |
| SPECIALTY USA | Mark Beyerle | |
| STARR RESTAURANTS | Diane Farina | Event Sales Coordinator |
| TRAVEL OREGON | Petra Nahr | Sales & Marketing Manager - Europe |
| TRAVEL PORTLAND | Karen Viehoever | International Tourism Manager - Europe |
| VANTAGE HOSPITALITY GROUP, INC. | Judy DiPietro | Vice President, Travel Industry Sales |
| VISIT DENVER | Jayne Buck | Vice President of Tourism |
| VISIT PITTSBURGH | Meryl Hellring | Tourism Sales Manager |