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Italy, Israel, New Zealand, India, China, South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Morocco, Bhutan, Thailand, Spain, Vietnam

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Michelle Boots

Cruise Expert

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Meeting new people and hearing about their life experiences is Michelle’s favorite part of being a trusted travel expert. She loves working with all different types of clientele, offering them suggestions to make their travel plans runs seamlessly. She understands details are very important in making her clients happy, and it is essential to her to get them right.

Michelle has been in the cruise industry for 30 years. She started off as a receptionist and quickly worked her way up to a Cruise Consultant. She has traveled to many destinations and has cruised on Silversea, Seabourn, Celebrity Cruises, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises. 

Michelle specializes in selling luxury cruises and tours, along with world cruises, Viking river cruises and Tauck tours. She loves the challenge of finding the perfect product for her clients’ next trip, as well as offering alternative ideas that they hadn’t thought of. Clients return to Michelle over and over for their travel preparation as she goes above and beyond for them on every trip.

• Mediterranean
• South America

Travel Specialist

• World Cruises
• Grand Voyages
• River Cruising
• Tauck Tours
• Beach Vacations
• Group Travel
• Luxury Cruises

Travel Certifications

• Signature Travel Expert
• AmaWaterways
• Seabourn Academy
• Regent Seven Seas Cruises
• Crystal Cruises Academy

Travel Expert

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Deb enjoys sharing her clients’ enthusiasm for their upcoming trips. She really likes talking to them about what they are looking for in a trip, and hearing where they have been and what experiences they have had in the past. Deb gets to know her clients to help make trip recommendations based on their individual preferences.

With over 10 years experience in the travel industry, Deb has specialized in both corporate travel and leisure travel. She focuses on selling all-inclusive vacations and cruises, particularly to the Caribbean. She loves Grand Cayman and enjoys the whole Caribbean atmosphere and how all the islands are so unique. Another favorite travel destination of Deb’s is the Atlantic side of Florida, and she absolutely loves driving down A1A to see the homes, boats and waterways. 

Deb has taken a river cruise in the Netherlands on the all-inclusive Tauck line. She had a great time and was impressed with the included shore excursion options at each port such as art museums, bike tours, walking city tour, or a trip to a Friesland horse farm just to name a few.

Deb has also experienced an inaugural sailing of the brand-new Celebrity Beyond and is very knowledgeable of Walt Disney World after a recent educational trip there. She looks forward to helping you plan your next adventure.

Deb’s Most Recent Trips: Celebrity Cruise Hard Rock Hotel in Cancun and Intensive Learning Experience at Walt Disney World

Destination Expert

• U.S. Travel
• All Inclusives
• Destination Weddings
• Family Vacations
• Couples & Romance
• Escorted Tours
• River Cruises
• ALGV Pro (Apple Vacations)
• DIsney College of Knowledge
• Antigua/Barbuda Specialist

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Every time Lynne gets back from a cruise, she says it is her new favorite trip because she is always so excited about what she has experienced. She has over 25 years of experience selling luxury cruises and tours and facilitating group travel. She specializes in sending clients on long, extended voyages such as world cruises and grand voyages that span from several weeks up to four months long, in addition to river cruises, and specialty land trips ranging from safaris to guided tours of Europe.

Lynne also sets up large group cruises for everything from family reunions to an organization’s annual meeting where the group combines meetings with an exciting cruise destination. She works with the group leader to plan and organize the entire retreat from start to finish, and occasionally serves as a host for the group on the ship.

Having traveled all over the world, a few of Lynne’s favorite memories include hiking at Alaska’s Eastern Baranof Island and exploring Glacier Bay National Park by foot, experiencing France for the first time on the Regent  Seven Seas Voyager , and discovering Germany on her first river cruise. She thoroughly enjoys sailing on small ships to get to experience the smaller ports where large ships can’t reach. The cruise lines Lynne knows best include Crystal Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Silversea, Holland America, Seabourn, Celebrity and Tauck.

Lynne’s Most Recent Trip: Windstar Cruise around Iceland

Hear Lynne’s Take on the differences between Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Oceania Cruises here!

• Transatlantic Cruises
• Panama Canal
• Specialty Land

Debra Dickerson

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Debra loves to hear the excitement from her clients of what they got to do on a trip she had planned. She enjoys working with people who have a sense of humor and like to go out of the box a bit and do things with more adventure.

Having been in the travel industry for over 33 years, Debra is extremely knowledgeable of destinations around the world and how to match her clients with the best vacation options for them. Her priority is making sure they have everything set before they leave so they have nothing to worry about but to have a good time.

Debra sells a lot of world cruises, adventure/expedition cruises, river cruises, Alaska cruise tours and Tauck guided tours. She has been to Alaska about every other year for the last 15 years, and has been a frequent traveler to Hawaii, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and Disneyland. Debra is also very experienced in planning group travel and incentive travel rewards for family groups, organizations and companies.

Her favorite part of traveling is meeting people from different cultures around the world and seeing how they live. Debra looks forward to helping you plan your next adventure.  Debra was recently selected as a Travel Expert Select in the area of World Cruises from Signature Travel Network!

Debra’s Most Recent Trip:  Explora Journeys Cruise Royal Caribbean’s Brand New Icon of the Seas Cruise Brand New Celebrity Ascent Cruise Virgin Voyages Caribbean Cruise Windstar Cruise around Iceland

Hear about the Differences between Windstar Cruises and Silversea from Debra

• Skiing & Winter
• Disney – all aspects
• Signature Travel Expert Select for World Cruises
• Top Sales Person in Northwest forTauck
• Top Sales Agent for Several Years

Mary Ellsworth

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Mary loves finding the perfect vacation fit for her clients to help them take away special memories. She loves building relationships with all types of clients such as luxury, groups, families, singles and both new and experienced travelers.

Mary is known for being persistent in helping her clients find availability when it seems impossible and feels rewarded when they come home thrilled with their experience. She is a seasoned cruise professional with over 28 years in the travel industry.

Her passion for travel was built by working with tour companies, hotels and cruise lines prior to joining Cruise and Travel Experts.

She specializes in selling grand voyages, world cruises, luxury and family travel and is extremely knowledgeable about traveling to Alaska, Hawaii, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.  A few of her favorite spots include Hawaii, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Australia & New Zealand. Mary looks forward to helping your travel dreams come true!

Hear about World Cruises from Mary: The Ultimate Way to Travel The World

Mary’s Most Recent Trip: Brand New Regent Seven Seas Grandeur Brand New Celebrity Ascent Cruise Virgin Voyages Caribbean Cruises Lindblad Expeditions Cruise in France and Ireland.  Hear Mary tell all about it here!

• Central America (Costa Rica)
• South Pacific
• European River Cruises
• Luxury Travel
• Family Travel
• Top 2, 3 or 4 Sales Agent for Past 12 Years
• SEA Award (Sales Excellence Achievement)

Vickie Grysen

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Vickie’s favorite part of her job is talking to her clients after they return from their vacation, wedding, or honeymoon to hear all about the fun they had and the memories they created. She also really appreciates when clients refer her to their friends and family because then she knows she has done her job well.

With over 44 years of experience in the travel industry, Vickie assists both leisure and corporate travel clients. While she has visited many destinations around the globe by land and sea, her favorite place has been East Africa where she spent two weeks in Kenya, Tanzania and the Masai Mara.

Vickie excels at planning all kinds of vacations and will stop at nothing to help her clients get the best resort at the best rate. She has been on 25 cruises so can give you the scoop on the different cruise lines and itineraries, matching you with the best fit. Whether you need help rebooking your flight or want that special room or cabin, Vickie has the industry contacts to help you.

Hear Vickie explain the benefits of all-inclusive resorts and cruises!

• Mexico – Riviera Maya, Cancun, Acapulco, Cozumel
• New Zealand and Australia
• Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Caribbean Islands
• Destination Weddings and Honeymoons
• Vacations out of the Ordinary
• Group and Incentive Travel
• CTC (Certified Travel Counselor)
• Marriott Bonvoy
• Germany, Austria and
• Switzerland

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Tina’s most rewarding part of her job is seeing the excitement in her client’s eyes as they tell stories from their recent vacation. She has nearly 20 years of experience serving travelers in a variety of roles in the travel industry. She has racked up many miles traveling to the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, and throughout the United States with her family of six.

Tina enjoys visiting the U.S. National Parks and has vacationed at Glacier, Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Badlands, and Devils Tower. She has also traveled to many islands throughout the Caribbean and Mexico by land and by cruise. She has traveled in Europe and recommends taking a river cruise. She has experienced a wine themed river cruise on AmaWaterways along the Danube River from Budapest to Vilshofen.  Tina looks forward to providing you with her personal recommendations on the destinations you are interested in visiting.  Tina recently experienced the new Oceania Vista in New York City.

Hear Tina and Jen’s take on their recent Antarctica cruise! 

Watch another client presentation of their Silversea Antarctica cruise with Silversea Expeditions leader Tim Amm. 

Tina’s Most Recent Trips: Celebrity Cruise Silversea Expedition cruise to Antarctica Inaugural Stay on Oceania Vista 6-Night Rocky Mountaineer Luxury Rail Trip

• New Zealand
• U.S. National Parks – Camping
• Women’s Travel
• Sailing & Boating
• Cruises River Cruises
• Royal Caribbean International
• Princess Cruises
• Marriott Resorts

Lory Horrevorts

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Having been a travel expert for more than 31 years, Lory knows how to match her clients with the best vacation to suit their needs. Lory specializes in selling luxury travel, escorted group travel, cruises, honeymoons, destination weddings, all-inclusive vacations, and Disney vacations. She enjoys working with everyone from busy millennials to seniors and loves hearing their travel stories and forming a bond with them.

Lory feels her best quality as a travel agent is that she is a good listener to really hear what her clients are looking for in each vacation they take. She takes the time to find out what is important to them and many have trusted her with their travel plans for over 16 years.

Lory has traveled the world extensively and some of her favorite destinations include China, Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii, Mexico, Western Europe, Alaska and the Caribbean. New Zealand and Ireland top her list and she found them to be surprisingly very similar because of their stunning scenery and friendliness of the people. Lory looks forward to helping you plan your next journey!

Lory’s Most Recent Trips: Royal Caribbean Utopia of the Seas Regent Seven Seas Canada/New England Cruise

• Walt Disney
• Escorted Coach Tours
• All-Inclusive Vacations
• Disney Vacations
• Uniworld Boutique River Cruises
• Avalon Waterways
• Hawaii Destination Specialist
• Apple Vacations
• Sandals Resorts
• Rail Europe

Penney Lipner

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Penney’s passion lies in coordinating domestic and international business travel and helping road warriors make it to their final destination. With her 36 years of experience in the travel industry, she prides herself on being there when they need her, even if it’s after hours.

According to Penney, that is just part of the value add she provides to the traveler wherever they may be in the world. She makes sure they have the flights they need, and will leave no stone unturned in helping them with a flight change or securing a sold out hotel.

Having traveled extensively herself, Penney also plans clients’ leisure travel and Caribbean cruises tops her list to sail and sell. She is also a big fan of Hawaii, saying it’s truly paradise.

Shannon Nelson

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Shannon has always had a passion for culinary and wine destinations and usually finds herself signing up for the cooking class, wine tasting/culinary shore excursions along with trying all the specialty restaurants onboard cruise ships. She feels it brings the “food to table, wine to glass” understanding and appreciation of unique regions of the world. She has transformed this passion into helping her clients find unique culinary adventures and has even coordinated several exclusive wine member cruises.

Shannon has over 34 years of experience selling luxury cruises and tours and is an extremely dedicated agent focused on providing the best service to her clients. She specializes in selling luxury cruises, world cruises, and grand voyages and understands the high attention of detail and unique preparations required for these long cruises. Her vast knowledge of cruising allows her to expertly match her clients with the most ideal cruise vacation for them.

Shannon has traveled throughout the Mediterranean, Thailand, Latin America, Peru (Machu Picchu), Mexico, Caribbean, Alaska, and has experienced Papua New Guinea/Indonesia/Australia on an expedition trip with Zegraham Expeditions. Belize is Shannon’s favored beach getaway and she is hooked on snorkeling, birding, diving, hiking, seeing the ruins, and just enjoying the fabulous resorts and restaurants. She looks forward to helping you plan your next great cruise adventure! 

Shannon’s Most Recent Trip: Explora Journeys Cruise Brand New Regent Seven Seas Grandeur Cruise Lindblad Expeditions Cruise in France and Ireland.

• Latin America
• Papau New Guinea
• Wine and Culinary Travel
• Specialty Land Trips

Michele Peleras

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Michele’s favorite part of her job is having the opportunity to interact with people and share her knowledge and expertise in travel. She has gained that insight and insider knowledge from her 30 years working in various aspects of the travel industry. The destinations she is most passionate about include Hawaii, Mexico, Alaska, the Caribbean, and Europe. Having visited Hawaii over 8 times, Michele has plenty of suggestions for activities to try. One of many adventures she recommends is driving up to the Waimea Canyons in Kauai to take in the breathtaking views with a stop in Hanapepe at Salt Pond to swim and snorkel, and another break at the Fern Grotto to experience the fern covered lava rock and gardens. Michele has also frequented plenty of warm-weather destinations throughout Mexico and the Caribbean by land and by cruise and enjoys the history and architecture of each unique destination.

For those looking to travel a little farther, Michele is quick to recommend a trip to Italy, South Africa or a European river cruise. In addition to seeing the landmarks in Rome, Venice, and Florence, Michele often suggests her clients stay in a villa in the beautiful Tuscany region to visit the charming small towns, enjoy good food and wine, and take in some cooking classes. In South Africa, Michele encourages clients visiting Cape Town to travel to Victoria Falls to venture on a thrilling safari at the Saba Saba Game Reserve. A big fan of river cruises, Michele believes it is a great way to get an in-depth experience into a particular country/culture.

Michele recently took a Canadian Rockies train tour from Vancouver to Calgary with Rocky Mountaineer. Her favorite parts of this spectacular journey were riding The Gondola’s in Banff, an Ice Explorer Adventure, and a helicopter ride over the glaciers. She also took a cruise in the Canada/New England region.

She looks forward to sharing her knowledge with you and offering you a worry free vacation!

Michele’s Most Recent Trips: Tauck European River Cruise Canada/New England Cruise on Norwegian Cruise Line

• Canada/Canadian Rockies
• Escorted/Independent Tours
• Spa Vacations
• Marriott Hotels
• Walt Disney World
• Celebrity Cruises
• Starwood Hotel & Resorts
• Viking River Cruise
• Collette Vacations

Paula Scholten

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Paula has over 25 years of experience as a business travel agent on many large corporate accounts and was selected to serve as a team lead on many of these. She is highly skilled in both domestic and international airline travel and provides a superior level of service to her clients.

Making a personal connection with travelers and travel arrangers is the most rewarding part of Paula’s job. She strives to make the booking process as seamless as possible for the traveler to give them peace of mind that everything will be handled in a timely manner.  Paula enjoys the relationships she builds with repeat clients and wants each traveler to look forward to making their travel arrangements with her.

Jennifer Walters

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Jennifer loves matching her client’s interests to the perfect vacation spot. She has 23 years of experience as a travel consultant and enjoys helping clients plan their honeymoon, destination wedding, romantic getaway or family vacation.

A frequent traveler herself, Jennifer has experienced many destinations within Mexico as well as many islands in the Caribbean. A few of her favorites include Riviera Maya, Cancun, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Jennifer has enjoyed a wine themed river cruise on AmaWaterways along the Danube River from Budapest to Vilshofen. 

Jennifer makes it a priority to go above her clients’ expectations such as contacting the resort or hotel before their arrival to make sure their requests are taken care of. She looks forward to helping you find an exciting destination for your next trip!

Hear Jen and Tina’s take on their recent Silversea Antarctica cruise here!

Jennnifer’s Most Recent Trip: Brand New Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas Cruise Silversea Expedition cruise to Antarctica 6-Night Rocky Mountaineer Luxury Rail Trip. 

• Independent Travel
• Sandals Specialist
• Destination Wedding Specialist
• AM Resorts Master Agent

Nancy Charles

Accounting/Finance Manager

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Nancy comes to Cruise & Travel Experts with a variety of work experiences including seven years in a travel agency setting as a Certified ARC Specialist. She helps our team members and independent contractors with an assortment of back-end accounting functions and processes.

Most recently, Nancy was a special events planner with an educational services organization. Her education lies in accounting and business management, and her favorite part of her job is working with numbers and interacting with team members.

Nancy loves to travel and some of her favorite travel experiences include hiking in Arizona and Colorado, taking a two-week tour in Italy where she enjoyed visiting the Basilica and the many cathedrals, and venturing onboard several cruises in the Western Caribbean and Alaska.

Kathy Jones

Support Specialist

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Kathy has 13 years of experience in the travel industry, and excels at providing operational support to our clients and members. She thrives on coordinating the small details of a client’s vacation to make sure everything runs smoothly. Kathy works behind the scenes coordinating documentation needs, added amenities and special requests.

Kathy also provides assistance to our member travel experts through our internal support department. She responds to inquiries and helps them seamlessly operate their individual travel businesses.  Kathy has experienced a Disney cruise with her family to the Caribbean and enjoyed a Tauck river cruise in the Netherlands.

Kathy’s Most Recent Trip: Two Week Hawaii Cruise on Princess Cruises

Vickie Meeuwsen, APR

Director of Marketing and Communications

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Vickie has over 20 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations and marketing. She has spent the majority of her career working in the travel industry with the past eight years at Cruise & Travel Experts leading their digital marketing, print marketing, and communications programs. She spent the previous nine years at Travel Leaders Leisure Group (formerly the Carlson Vacation & Business Travel division of Carlson Leisure Group) managing marketing and public relations programs for a variety of unique travel businesses and leading a team of marketing and graphic design professionals.

Her expertise lies in managing the implementation of a variety of communications and marketing activities to support the company’s vision, mission and business objectives including customized website and email marketing promotions, media relations, social media management, and creation of newsletters, blog posts, and internal communications. Vickie has earned her APR (Accredited in Public Relations) designation from the Public Relations Society of America. Some of Vickie’s favorite travel destinations include Hawaii, Costa Rica, Brazil, Alaska and the California Coast.

Vickie’s Most Recent Trip:  Placencia, Belize

Bethann Rahn

Business Development Manager

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Bethann has worked in a variety of positions with travel companies for over 30 years, including Northwest Airlines, GOGO Vacations, Travel Leaders, and Carlson Wagonlit Travel. Currently she works hard to support employees and independent travel partners of Cruise & Travel Experts, as well as working closely with vendors, event planning, marketing and so much more to help our business be a success. Having her MBA in business and marketing increases her knowledge with marketing negotiations, plan creation, events and training with the company. Her previous positions helped give her the experience and insight to help agents and agencies increase their sales and profits through effective training and marketing programs.

Bethann’s favorite part of her job is working closely with vendors to educate travel advisors on exciting new travel experiences they can offer their clients as well as educating the agents on the many tools the industry uses to create the perfect itinerary for clients. The past few years the world of travel has changed greatly so everyone has to keep up on all the changes in order to have a delightful, memorable vacation. She is a strong advocate of using a travel advisor to help create a fulfilling vacation and believes these experiences help people make memories that they can talk about for years to come. She loves both resort stays as well as cruising. When she would like to just relax by the beach and pool, she enjoys going to the Caribbean; when she would like to explore, she goes cruising; for example, The Baltic, Mediterranean, Caribbean and even an Alaska Cruisetour.

Bethann’s Most Recent Trip: Alaska Cruisetour on Princess Cruises

Jody Ryland

Vice President of Sales and Operations

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With over 30 years of experience in the travel industry in both corporate and leisure travel management roles, Jody most enjoys helping travel professionals reach their full potential. Jody has led large teams of employees and independent contractors in helping them grow their businesses through effective sales and marketing strategies. Jody keeps her focus on employee and independent contractor engagement and professional development as the key driver to ongoing success .

Prior to joining Cruise & Travel Experts in 2015, Jody spent 11 years serving as the Vice President over several businesses within Travel Leaders Leisure Group which included all facets of the travel industry. Prior to that, she worked for both Navigant International and Carlson Vacation  &  Business Travel which later spun off to Travel Leaders Leisure Group. Jody initially got her start in the travel industry working for American Airlines .

Jody also has a great deal of corporate travel experience including new account sales and implementation along with providing an ongoing consultative approach to position products and services to achieve company growth and revenue goals .

Some of Jody’s favorite travel destinations include the Caribbean, Hawaii, Bermuda, and Italy. She has sailed on over 50 cruises with some of her most enjoyable memories from sea spent snorkeling or diving in interesting coral reefs in the Caribbean. A travel highlight of Jody’s was a trip to Cuba and a private, guided tour .

Sharon Sikkema

Training and Education

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Sharon’s first job in the travel industry had her doing everything from selling travel to deicing aircraft. Thirty years later, Sharon has built a successful career inspiring, managing and training travel agents.  She worked at Worldspan/Travelport as a GDS trainer for seven years, and spent the last 11 years as a training consultant for Carlson Wagonlit Travel (later named Travel Leaders).

Sharon enjoys helping others learn and develop their knowledge base and careers. She prefers working with professionals who want to learn rather than those who are told to learn. Nothing makes Sharon happier than when a travel advisor advances their career by putting her best practices in place.

Sharon’s Most Recent Trip: Hosting Holland America Line Voyage of the Vikings Cruise

Lisa Walton

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After a break in the travel industry, Lisa has returned to provide support to our independent contractor members. Lisa previously spent 19 years working in various roles in the travel agent community after graduating from travel school. She provided support to corporate travel and meetings and incentive travel agents, and she has held several customer service roles since then.  

Lisa enjoys providing great service and assistance to the travel agents so they can focus on selling and growing their business. Her favorite part of her job is learning new things and being able to help her team. While Lisa enjoys a pool or a beach, her favorite destinations are full of action and live music as she loves to walk around and explore.  Las Vegas tops her list because of the high energy found there, as well as Los Angeles and the surrounding area including Disneyland, Universal Studios and Knotts Berry Farm. 

Tom Baumann

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Tom Baumann has more than 30 years of strategic travel leadership. Prior to founding Cruise & Travel Experts, Tom most recently served as President of Travel Leaders Leisure Group division of Travel Leaders Group which encompassed a variety of business and leisure travel entities. Tom was responsible for overseeing the complete portfolio of unique travel brands which included up to 200 employees and had multi-million dollar annual revenues.

Tom initially got his start in the industry by opening Travel Right, Inc. in West Michigan in 1987 and grew it to become one of the largest and most successful franchises of Carlson Wagonlit Travel. After selling the company to Carlson in 2000, he continued to head the Carlson Vacation & Business Travel division within Carlson Leisure Group which later spun off to Travel Leaders Group.

Passionate about traveling, some of Tom’s stand-out destinations have been trips to Namibia and South Africa and also travel to Vietnam.  Tom has also been on more than 70 cruises with his favorites being the South Pacific, river cruising in Europe, and of course, the Caribbean. Having traveled many destinations around the world, one of Tom’s favorite sayings is “Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money ever will be.”

Mark Schiffner

Vice President

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Mark Schiffner has spent 30 years building companies focused on helping small business owners manage and grow their operations. A veteran of the travel industry, Mark most recently spent five years as COO of Cruise Holidays, a travel franchise business which was part of the Travel Leaders Leisure Group (formerly Carlson Leisure Group).

During his 24-year career at Cruise Holidays, Mark led the creation and improvement of a variety of new programs and initiatives in travel technology, marketing, and training. He was initially tasked with developing Cruise Holidays in Canada, and later oversaw the expansion of Cruise Holidays International in the United Kingdom, and Australia. He also developed a home-based focused business for Carlson called SeaMaster Cruises, which eventually merged with Cruise Holidays.

Ireland, Italy and most of Eastern Europe top Mark’s list of favorite travel destinations. He has also been on over 120 cruises so knows a thing or two about life at sea. His front-runners include river cruises down the Danube and Rhine rivers, as well as cruises in the Greek Isles and Caribbean.

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Omsk: Western Siberia's hidden gem

A city view of Omsk. Source: Dmitry Feoktistov

Omsk was founded in 1716 when a wooden fort was constructed to house a Cossack unit in the area to protect the expanding Russian frontier from Central Asian nomadic incursions. It served various administrative functions throughout the 1800s and became infamous as a place of exile and incarceration. The city was rundown when selected as a hub for the Trans-Siberian railway in the 1890s. Many international trade companies and foreign consulates relocated here and the remnants of their offices can still be found in the city today.

The mystery of Kolchak’s gold

Omsk became the headquarters of the anti-Bolshevik white army led by Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in 1918. In late 1918 there was a revolt in the city initiated by a leftist faction (Socialist Revolutionary Party or SPs) with 500 rebel deaths at the hands of Cossacks and Czechoslovak soldiers, a major factor in convincing the SPs to join the Bolsheviks. There is a large Soviet-era monument to the uprising at the corner of Lenina street and Broz Tito street.  

Kolchak was entrusted with a large portion of the Tsarist’s gold reserves, yet amazingly lost much of it. Supposedly 250 million rubles were lost (about $8 million at the time). Legend has it that they were buried near the village of Taiga, yet numerous excavations have turned up nothing. The area still attracts the occasional fortune seeker.

Kolchak’s headquarters are located at what is today the  Omsk Regional Archives  at Broz Tito St., 3. Nothing shows how much times have changed as the imposing Kolchak statue that was unveiled in 2012 around the corner. The statue guards  Kolchak restaurant , a four-story culinary complex featuring a steak house, an Irish pub, a Central Asian café and an Italian eatery.  For more details on where and how to dig Kolchak's gold, see  Top Ten Mysterious Lost Treasures of Russia

Dostoevsky and the Tsar

At 1.15 million people Omsk dwarfs the region’s second largest city, Tara (population 28,000). The city is split by the River Irtysh into two sections (all places of interest are on the right bank) with downtown emanating from the River Om.

Most foreigners have heard of Omsk via writer Fyodor Dostoevsky who spent four years here as a prisoner (1849-1853). He spent most of his time in Omsk in squalor and chains and with no books besides the Bible, however, it left an indelible mark on his memory and influenced his future literary output. There is a statue of the writer in chains grasping a Bible at the corner of Partizanskaya and Spartakovskaya streets, where Dostoevsky undoubtedly stepped many times. A  museum dedicated to the author's time in Omsk  is located nearby at Dostoevskogo St. 1. The local university is also named for him.

A view of the Assumption Cathedral, Omsk. Source: Lori/Legion-Media

Tarskaya Street is one of the city’s oldest thoroughfares. It features a monument to victims of Stalinist repressions and the Tara gates, originally built in 1792 as one of the four entrances to the Omsk fort. Nearby stands the Assumption Cathedral, one of the largest churches in Siberia. Future Tsar Nicholas II laid the first stone here in 1891 when making his way back to St. Petersburg after his Eastern journey.

In Omsk you are never more than a few steps from the village, made clear when one exits the center to the north, where most houses are wooden and roads unpaved. Stroll along Bulatova and Rabinovicha streets, a well-preserved ensemble of wooden architecture.

Omsk’s cultural heritage 

The Pushkin State Library is worth a look with busts of Russian literary figures adorning the front side of the building. At the corner under the big “M” is one of several stations of the never completed Omsk metro. Construction began in 1992, but as of 2014 the project is again dormant due to financing problems.

One of Omsk’s most famous sons is Symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910). Vrubel ignored contemporary trends and focused on themes from fairy tales, demons and religious subjects and also designed a majolica frieze for the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. Omsk’s Fine Arts Museum is named for him and features a number of  his works .

Milhail Vrubel's painting 'Demon Seated in a Garden' (1890)

Over the years a number of tourists have tripped over the monument to Stepanych. This bust of a plumber rising from a sewer was the idea of Omsk’s former mayor after a trip to Slovakia in the 1990s. Stepanych has become one of the symbols of the city.

Omsk is a hockey town, with one of the major teams,  Avangard , in the KHL, Russia’s premiere professional league. Russian champions on several occasions, check out a match at Omsk Arena. But if you can’t catch a game there’s a large kiosk featuring the team’s merchandise at the airport.

Siberian   punk, jazz and the classics

While Omsk may not be on everyone’s radar musically, it does host a  musical theater  built just after the war. The building on 10 Let Oktyabrya Street is in the form of an enormous sloping grand piano.

A monument to Stepanych, Lenina Street, Omsk. Photo credit: RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn 

Perhaps Russia’s most famous punk band,  Grazhdanskaya oborona  (Civil Defence), was formed here in 1982. The band was active until 2008 when lead singer Yegor Letov died of heart failure at age 43. Letov is buried at the Staro-Vostochnoe cemetery. A sprawling graveyard with thousands of graves, fans should stop at the administration for help in locating his grave.

In Russia, Omsk is known among the younger, tech-savvy generation primarily because of the “Omsk bird,” also known as Winged Doom. The origin of what became one of Russia’s most ubiquitous memes comes from a painting by German artist Heiko  Müller. One day in 2009 an Internet user posted this painting with the line, “Welcome to Omsk,” at the top. Additional versions menace viewers stating, “Don't try to leave Omsk,” and “Omsk is closer than you think.” Like many popular memes on the Internet, this one went viral and has become something like an unofficial symbol of the city.

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Omsk city, Russia

The capital city of Omsk oblast .

Omsk - Overview

Omsk is one of the largest cities in Russia, a major scientific, cultural, sports, transport, and industrial center. The administrative center of Omsk Oblast, it is the second most populous city in Siberia.

The population of Omsk is about 1,126,000 (2022), the area - 567 sq. km.

The phone code - +7 3812, the postal codes - 644000-644246.

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History of Omsk

Foundation of omsk.

The need to build a Russian fortress on the banks of the Irtysh at the mouth of the Om River arose in connection with the steppe nomadic peoples. In particular, with the Oirats, whose tribes in the first decades of the 17th century began to appear within the borders of the Russian state being under the onslaught of their external enemies and as a result of internal civil strife. However, various foreign and domestic political problems of Russia hindered the development and defense of the South Siberian borders.

The situation changed only at the beginning of the 18th century, when the Russian conquest of Siberia intensified. Since Peter I paid great attention to geographical research in the south, the expeditions of that time combined socio-political tasks and tasks of scientific research.

One of such expeditions was led by the Russian military and statesman, associate of Peter I, Major General Ivan Bukhgolts. The goals of the expedition, numbering about 3,000 people, were to search for ore and gold deposits, the discovery of trade routes to India and China, as well as the construction of towns on the Irtysh River.

The expedition left Tobolsk to the south along the Irtysh in July 1715. In the spring of 1716, after a conflict with the Dzungars in the north of today’s Kazakhstan, the remnants of the expedition (about 700 people) withdrew to the mouth of the Om River, where they laid a new fortress named Omsky ostrog (fortified settlement).

According to the census of 1725, 992 people lived in the fortress, in 1742 - 1,092 people. From the first years of its existence, it served as a place of exile for prisoners. After serving hard labor and imprisonment, a lot of them stayed in Omsk for permanent residence.

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Omsk in the second half of the 18th century

The ethnic composition of the region’s population was formed in the process of settling the territory. Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, and representatives of many other nationalities were sent here to serve or were exiled. The indigenous people of the region were the Siberian Tatars and Kazakhs, who switched to a sedentary lifestyle.

The foundation of the second Omsk fortress took place in 1762. The first fortress, although it occupied a favorable geographical position, was wooden and, by the middle of the 18th century, it was dilapidated. In 1765, new stone fortifications were constructed. The first stone structure of the fortress was the Resurrection Military Cathedral, built in 1773 and preserved to this day.

In the end of the 18th century, the Omsk fortress was one of the largest structures in the eastern part of the Russian Empire, its area was more than 30 hectares. In 1782, it was transformed into a town named Omsk within the Tobolsk Governorate. In 1785, the coat of arms of Omsk was approved.

Omsk became the center of management of the Siberian transport routes and the Siberian Cossack army, which not only guarded the South Siberian borders, but also made a huge contribution to the economic development of the steppe expanses of Kazakhstan, the annexation of Central Asia to the Russian Empire.

Omsk in the 19th century

The fire of 1819 destroyed almost half of the town including the archive and the magistrate of Omsk with all the first archival documents. Therefore information about the life of Omsk in the 18th - early 19th centuries is scarce and fragmentary. In 1825, the population of the town was about 9,000 people.

In 1829, the town’s development plan was approved. It was made by the famous Petersburg architect V.I. Geste, who took the city of St. Petersburg as a model with its wide avenues, huge neighborhoods, fountains, cast-iron bridges, and an abundance of green spaces.

The composition of the population of Omsk was not quite usual. In the middle of the 19th century, since Omsk was the center of the military and civil administration, the proportion of the military in the local population reached about 60%.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature), who served a term of hard labor in the Omsk prison in 1850-1854, in a letter to his brother gave Omsk the following description: “Omsk is a disgusting town. There are almost no trees. In summer, heat and wind with sand, in winter, a snowstorm. I have not seen nature. The town is dirty, military and highly depraved.”

By the second half of the 19th century, Omsk in its development outstripped many steppe towns and became not only an administrative, but also a commercial and industrial center. In 1861, in Omsk, there were 2,122 houses (31 stone houses), 34 factories and plants, about 20 thousand residents.

In 1892, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway began, which gave a new impetus to the economy of Siberian towns and positively influenced Omsk. The development of the Trans-Siberian Railway caused an increase in the urban population due to migrants who came to work from the central part of the Russian Empire. According to the 1897 census, 37.3 thousand people lived in Omsk. The town had 14 streets with a total length of more than 140 km and 13 squares.

Omsk in the first half of the 20th century

The beginning of the 20th century was a time of great changes for Siberia. Mass peasant colonization caused a sharp leap in the development of the region’s economy, primarily its agrarian sector, and the Trans-Siberian Railway ensured the inclusion of the local economy in the system of the All-Russian and European markets.

Due to its favorable economic and geographical position - at the intersection of the railway and the Irtysh River, in the middle of a vast agricultural territory - Omsk quickly turned into a large transport, trade and industrial center of Western Siberia and Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (Eastern and Central Kazakhstan).

Wholesale trade in bread, butter and other agricultural products was concentrated here. Omsk also became one of the industrial, social and cultural centers of Western Siberia. By 1903, the city’s population grew to 60 thousand people. In 1914, it had about 134.8 thousand residents. Omsk became the most populous city in Siberia.

During the Civil War on the territory of the former Russian Empire, from June 1918 to November 1919, Omsk was the residence of the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who declared this city the capital of white Russia opposing red Russia of the Bolsheviks. Soviet power was finally established in the city in 1920.

In the summer of 1921, an event took place that had a decisive impact on the cultural and economic life of Omsk. The functions of the administrative center of Siberia were transferred from it to the city of Novonikolaevsk (future Novosibirsk). In 1934, Omsk became the administrative center of a separate Omsk Oblast.

Over the years of industrialization, Omsk became one of the largest centers for agricultural engineering in the USSR. The metal-working industry also developed at a rapid pace. In 1939, Omsk numbered more than 288 thousand people.

During the Second World War, about 200 industrial enterprises were evacuated to Omsk, as well as 60 hospitals, dozens of educational institutions, theaters, museums, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Omsk after the Second World War

In the post-war years, new enterprises were put into operation in Omsk, all existing factories and plants were reconstructed and expanded. The industrial potential of the city was also strengthened by the Omsk oil refinery, the largest in the country. In connection with the rapid development of industry, especially petrochemical enterprises, the ecological situation deteriorated. The concentration of harmful substances in the air sharply increased. In 1964, the population of Omsk was about 702 thousand people.

In the 1970s-1980s, Omsk developed rapidly. In 1975, the city’s population exceeded 1 million. The most pressing problem was the ecological situation. Omsk was in the top 10 cities of Russia in terms of environmental pollution. Another problem that required an immediate solution was the development of passenger transport. The capacity of Omsk streets was exhausted, and therefore the construction of the subway became an urgent issue.

The economic crisis that gripped Russia after the collapse of the USSR had a negative impact on the economy of Omsk and the region as a whole. There was a significant decline in industrial production, construction volumes fell, and unemployment rose. A lot of organizations of the defense complex, research institutes, and design bureaus found themselves in a deep crisis without the state defense order.

The share of mechanical engineering and metalworking, light industry, and, to a lesser extent, chemical and petrochemical, forestry and woodworking industries decreased. At the same time, the share of the fuel industry, energy, and construction materials industry began to grow.

In the 2000s, Omsk again became one of the most important economic centers of Western Siberia with a developing mechanical engineering, petrochemical industry, various branches of the woodworking, construction industry, and a highly productive agro-industrial complex. In recent years, Omsk has also acquired the features of one of the largest Siberian centers of entrepreneurship and banking/financial activities.

Architecture of Omsk

On the street in Omsk

Author: Tim Brown

Yak-9 fighter aircraft in front of the aerospace engineering company Polyot in Omsk

The Omsk Cadet Corps

Author: Stanislav Katsko

Omsk - Features

Omsk is located in the south of the West Siberian Plain at the confluence of the Om River into the Irtysh, about 150 km from the border of Russia with Kazakhstan. About 60% of all residents of Omsk Oblast live in Omsk. The City Day of Omsk is celebrated on the first Saturday of August.

The city’s coat of arms is very similar to the first coat of arms of Omsk approved by Empress Catherine II in 1785. It depicts a part of the brick fortifications, which symbolizes the reason for its foundation as a fortress and the center of the Siberian defensive line.

Omsk belongs to the temperate climatic zone with a continental climate of the forest-steppe of the West Siberian belt. It is distinguished by an abundance of sunlight. The average air temperature in January is minus 16.3 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 19.6 degrees Celsius. The highest wind speeds are observed in winter and spring, which is the reason for frequent snow and dust storms.

In the past, the ecological situation in Omsk was very unfavorable. Since 2011, the city’s environmental development rating has increased significantly. This was the result of large-scale modernization of many large industries (including the Omsk oil refinery). Today, road transport is the main source of air pollution in the city.

The level of pollution of the Omsk rivers - Irtysh and Om - remains consistently high. Swimming in them is prohibited. While industrial effluents are becoming more environmentally friendly, sewers are releasing waste products including diesel fuel and petroleum products into the rivers. Dust raised by dust storms is also a serious problem for the city as it contains a lot of harmful substances including lead.

The city’s industry is based on oil refining, petrochemistry, chemical industry, mechanical engineering (production of aerospace equipment, armored vehicles, agricultural equipment). Omsk is a major transport junction - the Trans-Siberian Railway runs through the city from west to east, and the navigable Irtysh River crosses it from south to north. Omsk Airport offers regular flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Surgut, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Salekhard, Kazan, Krasnodar, Sochi.

The unfinished subway of Omsk has become famous in Russia thanks to its only one fully built station. Its construction began back in 1992. However, due to funding problems, the completion of the first line was postponed numerous times. In 2019, it was finally decided to permanently stop construction. For local residents, because of the long wait for the completion of the construction, the Omsk metro symbolizes unrealizable hopes, they talk about it with irony.

In Omsk, there are practically no buildings higher than 50 meters, according to this parameter it is one of the lowest cities with a population of over one million. 130 architectural monuments are concentrated in the central part of the city, almost half of the total number.

Main Attractions of Omsk

Dormition Cathedral - the largest church in Omsk located in the very center of the city. The original church was built in 1891-1898. In 1935, it was completely destroyed. In 2005-2007, an exact copy of the building was restored in its original place. This is one of the most beautiful buildings in Omsk. At night, the building is illuminated and looks especially majestic. Tarskaya Street, 7.

Irtysh Embankment - the main walking street of Omsk with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River. Built in the middle of the 20th century, the embankment was reconstructed in the 2000s. You can walk along the alley on foot, ride rollerblades or a bike.

Merchant Batyushkin’s Mansion (1902). This architectural monument is located on the Irtysh Embankment. It is also known as the Kolchak’s House because Alexander Kolchak, the Supreme Ruler of Russia, lived in this building in 1919. One part of the building is occupied by the registry office of the Central District of Omsk. The Center for the Study of the History of the Russian Civil War is also open here. Irtyshskaya Naberezhnaya Street, 9.

Omsk State Museum of History and Local Lore - one of the oldest museums in Siberia and Russia founded in 1878. In total, this museum has over 200 thousand various objects of cultural, historical and artistic value. The museum is especially proud of such exhibits as the cast-iron figures of the Chinese lions Shi-Tzu, presented to the museum from China in 1895, as well as the skeleton of a woolly mammoth almost 3 meters high. Lenina Street, 23?.

Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel - one of the largest museums of fine arts in Siberia. It has collections of foreign and Russian art from antiquity to the present day. In total, there are over 22 thousand works by painters, graphic artists and sculptors, as well as more than 1.5 thousand rare folios.

Walking through the exhibition halls, you can admire the canvases of Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Surikov, Repin, Serov, Vereshchagin. The exhibition of rare icons dating from the 17th-20th centuries is of constant interest among visitors, as well as a unique collection of jewelry made of precious metals found in the Scythian and Sarmatian burial mounds. Two buildings of the museum are located at Lenina Street 3 and 23.

In November 2019, a new exhibition was opened in a historical building at Muzeynaya Street, 4 - the exhibition of art of the 20th-21st centuries. The Hermitage-Siberia Center is located here too - the first representation of The State Hermitage Museum (the second-largest art museum in the world) beyond the Urals.

Chokana Valikhanova Street - a pedestrian street located in the historic part of Omsk. The street is decorated with abstract architectural forms, flower beds, wrought-iron lanterns. The walking area ends with an observation deck with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River.

Museum of Kondraty Belov . The museum of this landscape painter born in Omsk can be found in a picturesque wooden house, which is considered one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Omsk. The exposition tells about the life and work of Kondraty Belov, as well as about the history of the building itself.

In total, this museum has about 700 exhibits. The permanent exhibition also includes works by Kondraty Belov’s son Stanislav and paintings by some other local artists. In addition, temporary exhibitions of contemporary Omsk artists are regularly held here. Chokana Valikhanova Street, 10.

Plumber Stepanych Monument - an unusual sculpture located in the center of Omsk, which you can literally stumble upon while walking along Lenin Street between the houses #12 and #14. Leaning out of the hatch, the plumber is depicted as realistic and life-size as possible. It is among the most photographed monuments in Omsk. There is a similar sculpture in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Lyuba Monument . This sculpture, located on the opposite side of Lenin Street from the monument to the plumber Stepanych, is especially loved by Omsk residents and tourists, who love to be photographed against its background.

This beauty in a lace dress with a neckline and a crinoline sitting on an openwork bench and reading a novel had a real prototype - Lyubov (diminutively Lyuba or Lyubasha) Gasford, the wife of the Governor-General of Siberia, who lived in Omsk in the 19th century and died at a young age due to illness. One of the streets of Omsk and the park are named in her memory. She is a local symbol of femininity and beauty.

Omsk Fire Tower - a picturesque architectural monument built at the beginning of the 20th century. Inside the tower there are museum expositions dedicated to the local fire brigade and the history of tower construction. Internatsionalnaya Street, 41?.

Park of Culture and Rest named after the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol - a popular place for walks, recreation and entertainment of Omsk residents and tourists, which has retained “the spirit of the Soviet era” in its name. Today, on an area of 73 hectares, several zones have been organized, various types of recreation are presented. There are walking alleys, ponds, water activities, for example, riding on hydro-scooters.

The ice town is open in winter, the Return of the Dinosaurs exhibition - in summer. The “House Upside Down” exposition is also popular with tourists. This park is a place for mass festivities, city celebrations and events. Maslenitsa, Christmas, City Day, and other holidays are celebrated here. Maslennikova Street, 136.

Natural Park “Bird Harbor” - a specially protected area located on the path of bird migration in the central part of Omsk. During autumn flights, up to 3 thousand birds stop here for rest. It is a great place to enjoy nature, walk along the eco-trail, and observe the life of birds. The park is situated in the floodplain on the left bank of the Irtysh River next to the Victory Park on Yeniseyskaya Street.

Omsk city of Russia photos

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Sights of Omsk

Fountain with frogs in the park next to the main building of the Agricultural Academy in Omsk

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Church of St. Nicholas in Omsk

Exaltation of the Holy Cross Cathedral in Omsk

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