FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Local
Travel Guru Chosen as 1 of 8 in United States to Participate
in Exclusive Florida Encounter Tradeshow
East
Stroudsburg, PA, December 4, 2006 - On November 4-8,
2006 VISIT FLORIDA, the official tourism marketing corporation
for state of Florida hosted its 25th Annual Florida Encounter
Appointment Tradeshow. The event marked the coming together
of some of the foremost meeting and convention planning
professionals with premier suppliers to network and experience
the diversity of Florida meetings and convention offerings.
This year's new
event at Florida Encounter, the Executive Track, was designed
exclusively for senior level managers involved in meeting
planning or decision making. The Executive Track is available
by invitation only to executive level suppliers and just
eight executives from the entire country were honored with
an invitation. Florida Encounter was held at the Naples
Grande Beach & Golf Resort in Naples, Florida.
One of eight
professionals invited to attend was local travel guru, Rick
Golden, a name synonymous with travel and tourism in the
Pocono Mountains region of Pennsylvania. As Owner and CEO
of GoldenTravelGuides, a national travel company headquartered
locally in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and its subsidiary
"Best of" City Guides, which now represent more
than 80 of the world's top travel destinations, Golden was
chosen because of his dedication to being at the forefront
of the travel and tourism industry.
When asked about
being invited to attend this year's event, Mr. Golden stated,
"I am honored to have been one of just a few meeting
suppliers called upon to build relationships with Florida
meeting planners and help them experience all that Florida
meetings can offer their groups."
Golden's company
does a significant amount of business in Florida, having
more than a dozen online city guides to popular travel destinations
like Naples, Sanibel, Marco Island, Winter Haven, Miami,
Key West, Ft. Myers, Orlando, Daytona, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville,
Sarasota, and Tampa.
GoldenTravelGuides.com,
headquartered at 366 North Courtland Street, Suite B in
East Stroudsburg, in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania,
is a subsidiary of Golden Interests, Inc. The largest leisure
travel agency in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in
the Northeastern United States, GoldenTravelGuides is a
member of the Pocono Mountains (PA) Chamber of Commerce,
the Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau (PMVB), the Naples
and Key West (FL) Chambers of Commerce, the Sullivan County
(NY) Chamber of Commerce, and the Pike and Wayne County
(PA) Chambers of Commerce.
GoldenTravelGuides
publishes more than 80 Internet-based guides to the "Best
of" cities like the Poconos, Atlantic City, Naples,
Hershey, Tunica, Niagara Falls, and Punta Cana. They arrange
for groups, leisure, and business travelers at more than
40,000 hotels across the world. They can be reached toll
free at: 1.877.465.3368 or online at: http://www.GoldenTravelGuides.com.
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