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TTTalk Ep4: How COVID-19 affected U.S. and global travel

June 30, 2020 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

TTTalk Ep4: How COVID-19 affected U.S. and global travel

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Paul Hardersen
Trouvaille LLC – Trouvaille HQ
6790 E. Calle La Paz, Tucson, Arizona, United States
(520) 300-1056
Website: https://www.trouvailletravel.org
Email: travel@trouvailletravel.org
Phone: 520-820-8662
Toll-free: 1-800-983-3652
Voted Best in Group Travel 2018
https://www.trouvailletravel.org/
Trouvaille ~ We are a lucky travel find, for you!
Week 1 Crowdfunding Update: We Have Liftoff!
Paul S. Hardersen, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner.
Paul S. Hardersen, CEO, Ph.D.

About Trouvaille Travel

Trouvaille is a small group travel hosting company offering uniquely curated local and global travel experiences. We other three main types of services: Trouvaille Signature Travel Experiences. These are our uniquely curated and conducted travel experiences in the U.S. and around the world that range from 2-10, are nearly all-inclusive, and highlight the culture, people, natural beauty, and cuisines of our destinations. Our current destinations include Maine, Florida, Hawaii, and Napa Valley in the U.S.; St.Lucia in the Caribbean; Ireland and Isle of Man; Machu Picchu in Peru; and the CookIslands in the South Pacific. These are offered on specific dates, but groups of 5 or more can arrange with Trouvaille for the conduct of these trips almost anytime during the year. Trouvaille Day Trips. We offer unique and customized local day trip experiences in Tucson, Arizona; New York City; and Portland, Oregon. These are all-inclusive day adventures that highlight specific features of the destinations.

B2B Services:

Trouvaille offers custom travel planning services to businesses small and large. We offer a complete, turnkey solution to plan large events at any destination, while also offering our Signature Trips for business groups. Contact us to get started! Email: travel@trouvailletravel.org. Phone: 520.300.1056.Main website: https://www.trouvailletravel.org Winner, Best in Group Travel, 2018 Arizona Daily Star’s Readers’ Choice Competition!

Testimonials:

“Truly outstanding! I have been fortunate to have traveled quite a bit, but I have not experienced this level of service. From the initial stages of planning to the actual amazing and unique trip, I am super pleased with my Trouvaille team and all that you offer! Booking again soon and I look forward to my next adventure with you!” T. Klein, Tucson, AZ.“We had an amazing time. I would recommend Trouvaille to anyone interested in having an experience of a lifetime.” K. Arnett, DeWitt, IA.“

As someone who loves to travel, I am thrilled to have discovered Trouvaille. Not only do they provide the personalized service I want, but their attention to every detail and their determination to enhance and maximize the entire experience far exceeds my expectations. Trouvaille is truly my go-to small group travel company!” K. Macdough, Tucson, AZ.How We Got StartedTravel enthusiasts came together to create Trouvaille and we want nothing less than to become a global player in the travel industry.

Trouvaille Travel Talk Ep3: 2019 Iron Chef Wendy Gauthier

February 26, 2020 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

Trouvaille Travel Talk Ep3: 2019 Iron Chef Wendy Gauthier

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Guest:

2019 Iron Chef winner Wendy Gauthier was the guest of Paul Hardersen CEO & Founder of Trouvaille Travel Talk. Wendy is the Founder and CEO of the very successful catering and restaurant operation, Chef Chic. As shown below Tucsonans will have the opportunity to enjoy different cuisine and flavors from around the globe.

Trouvaille & Chef Chic AZ Team Up To OfferExclusive Tucson Dining Experiences

Trouvaille Travel and Tucson 2019 Iron Chef Champion WendyGauthierandChef Chic AZ are teaming up to offer exclusive dining experiences in the Tucson Metro Region. Dinner will highlight the cuisines of Trouvaille’s travel destinations. Multi-course meals by Chef Chic. Seating is limited. Reservations required. Coming up in April: The Irish and Manxcuisines of Ireland and Isle of Man!

Barefoot Bahamas Sailing: Jan 16-22, 2022

Trouvaille is teaming up with Adventure Life and the classic sailing ship, Liberty Clipper, to charter the ship and offers a truly unique island-hopping experience across the Bahamas. Available for sol travelers, families, groups, and corporate events.

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Trouvaille has launched a new local travel division to its menu of personally escorted tours and international travel with Arizona Mines & Wines!

A new Arizona Day Trip is here–Arizona Mines & Wines! Explore the history of Arizona mining in Bisbee, explore the museum and descend into Queen Anne Mine–and savor afternoon lunch and wine at Sonoita wineries. All-inclusive. For groups of 5+, Thursday-Sunday.

There is a lot of amazing history and stories to be seen and told in Southern Arizona and for those visiting or even locals can now goon daily tours and see it all.

Go to www.trouvailltraveltours.org and get all the info you need. And if you are looking for some home-style cooking with delicious breakfasts and lunches check out Chef Chic. After all, you are being hosted by Wendy Gauthier and she wasn’t the 2019 Iron Chef winner for nothing!

Contact her directly for that special catering event onwendy@chefchicaz.com.

You can contact Paul Hardersen travel@trouvailletravel.org * Dine in comfort all over the world! (Coming soon)

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Trouvaille Travel Talk Ep2, w/ Donna Reed & Melissa Rossier

October 28, 2019 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

Trouvaille Travel Talk Ep2, w/ Donna Reed & Melissa Rossier

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GUESTS:
Donna Reed
Keller Williams of Southern Arizona
1745 E River Rd #245
Tucson, AZ 85718
520-631-4638
donna@reedtucson.com
Website: reedtucson.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn |

I was born and raised in a tiny town of 500 people in NW Ohio. (Lindsey) The only girl with 3 brothers. I was lucky enough to go through 8 grades with the same 25 or so “Kids” and then in 9th grade, we joined the “city kids” at the big school in Fremont, Ohio. In the 1970s that meant going from about 25 kids to almost 600!

I got good grades, graduated high in my class and had tons of friends. My parents were married until my mother’s death in1995. She was from Chicago and my dad from a farm in eastern Ohio so life was good! Right after high school, I joined Up with People and during the US Bicentennial, I traveled all across this country and down into Mexico. For a kid who loved languages, loved people and loved to travel, it was a perfect fit.

After a second year of working and traveling through Europe, I started college here at the University of Arizona. It was here that I met my husband Gilbert. In 1980 we married and moved back to Ohio to be near my family. During those Ohio years, I had 3 sons, finished my degree at the University of Toledo, and lived in the same small town where I had grown up. My degree was in business and I started my career by working in Admissions for a technical college. For the next20 years, my jobs changed, but always somehow seemed to center on sales and/or management of some kind.

In 2000, we moved back to Tucson where my husband was born and raised. In 2005 I began my career in Real Estate and have been doing this full time since then. I am currently with Keller Williams Southern Arizona representing both buyers and sellers in residential Real Estate. I have been in the top 20% of my company for the past 10 years. I love what I do and have a passion specifically for helping those who might need someone to help with French! The person who loves to travel loves helping those coming to Tucson from not only colder climates here in the US, but also those who are moving from across the ocean. I have been on our agent leadership council for all but 3 of the past 10 years and specifically tend to work with our Culture Committee.

I am also active in my church, St Mark’s United Methodist as a praise team member in contemporary worship. And, most recently I have served as the head of our Staff Parish Relations committee as well as president of the Campus Christian Center. One of my goals this year is to work with the Inn Project, helping those immigrants coming to the US through Tucson on their way to their new homes here in the United States.

Melissa Rossier, Loan Officer
Guild Mortgage
3108 N. Swan Rd.,
Tucson, AZ 85712

(520) 425-8733

(520) 275-4589

mrossier@guildmortgage.net

SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube |

I am an Arizona Native-Born In the small’mining community of San Manual. I moved to Tucson in 1982 right in the middle of 7th grade which was a culture shock for a 12-year-old! I have 3 children who have all grown up here in Tucson and am engaged to the love of my life. I love to hike, read and travel. My new motto is “It’s about the memories and not things that make life great”

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I have been a mortgage banker here in Tucson for 13 years and I proudly hang my license with Guild Mortgage. Maybe it is the first time home buyer or the seasoned homeowner looking to downsize. Whatever the mortgage need isl am always here and happy to help!

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Trouvaille Travel Talk on Tucson Business Radio, Ep#1

June 25, 2019 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

Trouvaille Travel Talk on Tucson Business Radio, Ep#1

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Guests

Chuck Mai (pronounced “may”),
Vice President, Public & Government Affairs (Ret.)
AAA Oklahoma/South Dakota

Born in Chicago, Chuck was reared in Des Moines, Baldwin City (Kan.) and Columbia (Mo.). It was in Columbia that Chuck attended high school and the University of Missouri – School of Journalism, earning his Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1972.

For 15 years, Chuck pursued a career in broadcasting, working in the news departments of radio and television stations in Aspen, Denver, and Tulsa.

In 1987, Chuck joined the staff of AAA Oklahoma/South Dakota as head of the Public Affairs department. His duties included not only handling the club’s public and media relations and legislative/government affairs activities, but also administering the club’s many traffic safety programs, serving as the club’s community service projects coordinator, and editing Home & Away magazine, now AAA World, the member publication sent six times annually to all AAA members in Oklahoma/South Dakota.

AAA serves as the voice of AAA members, representing them in the halls of state legislatures, in Congress and before the many agencies and departments within state government. The club’s primary advocacy issues continue to revolve around highway funding and traffic safety.

Chuck retired in the fall of 2017 and now pursues freelance travel writing assignments for publications such as Oklahoma Magazine. He and his wife Nancy enjoy life in Carlton Landing, a new town embracing “new urbanism,” located on the shores of Lake Eufaula (Okla.), the “Gentle Giant,” the largest lake in Oklahoma at 105,000 acres and 800 miles of shoreline. Chuck enjoys raising herbs, walking, cooking, travel (of course) and their beautiful new grandchild, Sadie, age five months.

Kristal MacDough

kmacdough@tucson.com
Other: Phone: (520) 909-2923
Kristal MacDough was reared an Air Force “brat,” giving her the itch for travel from a very young age. Her family lived in all four corners of the United States, from Michigan to Texas, New York to Alaska, and Georgia to California. She transplanted herself in 1984 to Arizona, which has been home since then.

Kristal is currently an account executive with the Arizona Daily Star and oversees advertising efforts for SaddleBag Notes, the SaddleBrooke community’s monthly newspaper. Throughout her career, Kristal has served as Director of Advertising and Communications for KB Home, Marketing Manager for Meritage Homes, worked in Development for the University of Arizona’s College of Architecture and the Eller College of Management, and was Director of Communications & Special Events for a national securities firm in Phoenix.

Her travels have taken her to Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Scotland, Ireland, Hawaii, Canada, and numerous points in between, just to name a few.

Kristal is also a Certified Life Coach and Meditation Instructor, and a writer currently working on her first novel. She is a self-proclaimed “sunshine gal” and is never disappointed with Mother Nature’s gifts of deserts, mountains, and valleys, and summer monsoons, to the Grand Canyon State.

Therese Perreault

Creative Business Professional
901 N. 3rd Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85705
520-780-6856 • theresep@mac.com

Business professional with the proven ability to stay mission-focused while improving operational effectiveness and increasing brand visibility.

Areas of expertise, include:

• Highly adept at converting ideas and plans into specific deliverables and manageable budgets
• Effective brand and content management across multiple (and changing) media platforms
• Strong visual vocabulary; effective communicator; High attention to detail and accuracy; versatile and resourceful

Therese’s work history includes:

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona: Sr. Director ELDER Alliance, Senior Strategies
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona: Marketing and Communications
Kore Press, Marketing and Operations Director
Tucson Embedded Systems: Communication Specialist
Arts Marketplace: Arizona: Executive Director, Founder
Community Storytelling Arts: Producer, Fine Art Documentary Photographer, Digital Storyteller

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