Press Releases 2006
New Director of Sales Named
CONTACT: Janet Peterson, Marketing and
Public Relations Director
TEL: (856) 825-6800, Ext.108
FAX: (856) 825-2410
E-MAIL: jpeterson@wheatonvillage.org
KAREN ADAMS NAMED WHEATON VILLAGE
DIRECTOR OF SALES
MILLVILLE, NJ –Karen
Adams has been named Director of Sales for Wheaton Village.
In this position, Adams will promote, package and sell Wheaton Village
as a destination to the group tour market. She will work with tour operators,
group tour leaders, affinity groups such as the Red Hat Society, corporations and
other organizations, and will create tour packages to include restaurants,
hotels, and other cultural destinations in the region.
Adams joins Wheaton Village with over 20 years of experience
in the group travel industry. She began her career at
Caesars in Atlantic City
in the early 1980s and has been very active in the Hospitality/Tourism industry
since that time. She has experience in hotels, airlines and wholesaler companies
and operated her own tour company, Absolutely Jersey, for several years. Adams is on the board of the Atlantic City Tourism
Council and serves as vice-president of the Atlantic City Chapter of SKAL,
an international organization for travel professionals. She has also been
a speaker at the New Jersey Governor's Conference on Tourism.
Susan
Gogan, Wheaton Village president, explains, “Our goal
is to generate marketing partnerships and sell tour packages in order to
generate more cultural tourism to this area. This is good news to businesses
and other organizations. It gives example not only to our pride in Wheaton Village’s value as a destination, but
also our respect for the collective impact of cultural resources within our
entire region.”
This Cultural Tourism
initiative has received support from the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth
and Tourism Commission /Cooperative Marketing Sponsorship Program and the New
Jersey Cultural Trust. Both grants will fund portions of expenses related to
developing group tour marketing packages; promoting South Jersey cultural
attractions at group tour conferences throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, and
an interactive CD featuring photographs and visitor information relating to South Jersey’s attractions, environmental resources and
travel services.
For more information about
Wheaton Village, call 1-800-998-4552 or
856-825-6800, or visit
www.wheatonvillage.org.
Wheaton Village strives to make exhibits, events and programs
accessible to all visitors. Call for details.
Funding has been made
possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of
State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
Wheaton Village received a general operating
support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of Cultural
Affairs in the Department of State.
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