Chris Newton has been involved in the tourism industry for over 15 years and has lived in England, Spain, and Ireland. He has traveled extensively in most European countries, China and North America. Chris has held numerous travel and tourism jobs including being a hostel manager in Ireland, fine dining server in England and Scotland, sales manager for a property company in Spain and a variety of odd jobs at ski resorts, ranches, museums and gardens. Chris was producer of a weekly video podcast while receiving his B.S. and M.S. in Parks, Recreation and Tourism at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

 

Gerald Fuller, CTC, has presented more than 100 travel-related workshops and seminars for travel organizations including ASTA, IFWTO, ICTA, PATA, ISTTE, CITC, NAF, CTO and CHRIE, national travel agencies including AAA, Carlson Travel Network and Supertravel and individual travel agencies. He has been extensively traveling the world for more than 40 years and has been around the world 9 times, lived in 9 countries and visited every recognized country except Equatorial Guinea, Somalia and Libya. He entered the travel industry 35 years ago and has held numerous positions including being a travel agent for over 11 years (specializing in cruises, international, deluxe and exotic FITs and escorted tours) and regional sales manager for Island Holidays Tours and First Family of Travel for the southern United States. He has taught and designed travel curriculum at Houston (Houston, TX) and Austin (Austin, TX) Community Colleges, Pace Travel School (Austin, TX) and The Center For Travel Education (Sandy, UT). He has taught for 14 years and currently teaches travel and destination classes at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT). He received the International Federation of Women's Travel Organizations' 1993 Special Service Award and served on the editorial advisory board of TravelLife magazine for seven years. He served on the board of the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators between 1994-1996 and is the author of several travel industry texts including Travel Agency Management and Destination Geography Volume I and Volume II. He received a BS in Advertising/Public Relations with minors in Business Management and French from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. He was Director of Marketing and Sales for Education Systems from 1994-2000,and is President of Travel Advice, advising travelers towards a more fantastic vacation for more than 30 years.