Fab5 – Combining effort and strategies during Covid
| Duration 00:42:41 | Posted in by Richard Bryan Earls, Lynda Phillippi


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Through the magic of social media, a Brit doing sightseeing tours in Switzerland (Typically Swiss Tours’ Chris Wilson) joined forces with travel advisors in Toronto, California, and Oregon to create a business/social group called the Fab 5. Here, four of them discuss the travel business in the time of Covid, thoughts about the future of travel, and the creative ways they keep busy without work in three different countries. Hint: there may be contests and cowbells. This is a peek into what’s become a real group friendship during this unusual period of time. It’s not quite Absolutely Fabulous, but it’s fun.

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Lynda Phillippi


Lynda Phillippi has been in travel for 16 years, as an advisor and host agency owner. Renaissance Travel and Events specializes in small group travel, cruises, and Europe. She is a part chapter president of ASTA in Portland, Oregon, and the current Regional Director for ASTA in the Pacific Northwest. She’s…

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Richard Bryan Earls


Richard Earls has spent the last 30 years in the travel industry as an agency owner, a technologist, a publisher and a writer. A serial entrepreneur, Richard has sold two of his start-up companies prior to his current projects, Travel Research Online, Voyager Websites and Travmarket Media The publishing credits to…

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