As ETA prepares for our summer break, I would like to wish you and yours a wonderful and safe summer. This of course will be our last newsletter until September. When we resume in September with our monthly meetings and the newsletter, we will also be in high gear preparing for our annual trade show in November. At this point we are in discussions with all of the vendors who participated last year as well as some exciting new additions – stay tuned!

   But it’s your show. And we want to make sure that we talk to and recruit the vendors most important to you. Thank you to all of you who have submitted suggestions already. If anyone has any other suggestions or you have a favorite supplier that you work with that you would like to participate in the show please let us know and we will seek them out.

   In running any successful organization it is important to always listen to the members needs. ETA is no exception. We want to make the trade show even better this year, and with your help we will. So please let us know by giving that information to your chapter chair or by emailing Jan Brightman at jbrightman@aaanorthpenn.com or Sharon Armstrong at samim00@gmail.com.

   This month ETA welcomes Jill Orner of Silversea Cruises. Recognized as the defining the elite luxury experience, Silversea is regularly lauded by leading consumer and trade publications. In the U.S., they has been voted “World’s Best” by the readers of Condé Nast Traveler (nine times) and Travel & Leisure (seven times), and rated Number-One luxury cruise line by high-net-worth consumers in the 2008 Luxury Brand Status Index survey.

I will see you there,

Tom