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Experience Maine
Rachel has over 20 years of experience planning meetings, travel and events and designing experiential marketing campaigns, and has an innate love for Maine, its culture, and its natural beauty. She is a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), which represents the standard of excellence in today’s meetings, conventions, and exhibitions industry. In 2015, Rachel was asked t ... More o join the Customer Advisory Board for Maritz Global Events, one of the largest, most-respected leaders in the meetings and events industry, worldwide. She has been an active member of Meeting Planners International (MPI), New England Chapter for the past 10 years. Rachel’s professional background includes seven years overseeing marketing and events for a $3.5B environmental, energy, and industrial services company, where she planned and executed over 50 corporate meetings, trade shows, experiential marketing campaigns, and customer events annually. Prior to this, she worked in various marketing and event planning roles, including Marketing Manager at WEX in Portland; Director of Sales & Marketing at 33 Management Group in Boston; Promotions Manager at Time Warner in Portland; and Marketing & Events Coordinator for Vreeland Marketing & Design in Yarmouth Rachel has lived in and Experienced Maine for most of her life, she grew up on Great Pond in the picturesque Belgrade Lakes region, where she mastered boating, kayaking, canoeing, fishing, hiking, and hanging out with friends. She lived for 10 years in Portland’s Old Port, where she discovered her love for food and wine, live music, and the working waterfront. Rachel has an intrinsic love for the ocean. To this day you can find her walking along with low tide at one of Maine’s many beaches, collecting shells, broken sand dollars, and sea glass for her collection. She’s even enlisted her five-year-old daughter to start her own treasure chest of tidal pool discoveries. Rachel most recently lived in Boston for the last 10 years, but moved her family home in 2018…back to the way life should be…to launch Experience Maine!
Catalina Adventure Tours
Our history began over 35 years ago when the first glass bottom boat was built for the company by its founder and owner, Jeffrey Stickler. Made of all steel; this 26-passenger vessel was built very quickly to provide service for the visitors who came to Catalina Island to view its beautiful underwater gardens. This vessel was quickly followed by another one designed for 28 ... More passengers. Buses were added to provide personally narrated land trips for visiting cruise ship passengers. The buses were carefully selected to provide comfortable trips into the interior with air-conditioning and friendly guides.
European Travel International
I have been a travel adviser for over 40 years. I started working in my family's travel agency in Riverside, CA, 8 1978, but I am now home-based and live in SE Pennsylvania. I have a Cali Seller of Travel license and still worked with my regular clients for many years. My specialty is booking independent European itineraries; however, I have booked Hawaii and Mexico, the S ... More outh Pacific, the Americas, Asia and Africa for many years.