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CONNIE
SCHELLER EXPEDITIONS, S.A. de C.V.,
Mexico, is a
outbound tour operator founded by Ms. Connie
Scheller, by my own account (free-lance). Tour operation to the most inaccessible sites and
odd, and exotic places of the world, mainly to the Orient including India,
Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Singapore, Malaysia, China/Tibet, Korea,
Japan, Middle East, Africa, Oceania, and Central and South America. Since
January 2000, my Company is engaged
in the organization for Conventions, Regional Meetings and Seminars for big
corporations. Actual Staff: Connie Scheller, General Director; Blanca Camacho,
Sales Director. Sales Staff: Rocío de Prado, Carlos Camacho & Edgar Arceo.
CONNIE
SCHELLER’S & COMPANY’S PROFILE
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CONNIE SCHELLER’S & COMPANY’S
PROFILE
I count with a strong experience, mainly in the field of marketing and sales, and a very special one, too, in the operative field of travel to all corners of the world. This experience has been accumulated for more than 35 years, many of those with top executive posts at transnational companies, specially the last 25 years, first as Manageress and then as Directress of two important areas of travel (American Express Co. (Mexico). S.A. de C.V.) and finally, from 1991-today, I have been working as independent Tour Operator mainly to the Orient, Middle East, Africa, Oceania, and South America as Connie Scheller Expeditions, S. A. de C.V.. Lately, I have been engaged in the operations, coordination and logistics of conventions, regional meetings, seminars and incentive travels for important corporations.
Due
to my own kind of work, I have maintained a close contact with main tour
operators around the world. Besides, I have been keeping excellent relations with the
public and private sectors, not only in Mexico, but also overseas.
INDEPENDENT PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES AND WITH CORPORATIONS WITH WHOM EITHER I HAVE WORKED WITH OR I REPRESENTS THEM IN MEXICO.
REPRESENTATIONS:
1996-Today:
INSPIRATION TOURS AND TRAVELS (P) LTD. / INSPIRATION TREKS & EXPEDITIONS (P)
LTD., of
Kathmandu, Nepal, a tour operator company founded by my very close friend
Rabindra Rayamajhi with the offer of also good-will tours throughout Nepal,
Bhutan and Tibet. Part of collected funds are destinated to help a hospital,
“Temple of Health” in Nepal. The neat and exact and high/excellent quality
of his operation of such sophisticated tours and trekkings are my real envy. My impression about Inspiration is as follows
“I want to be there, now, and take them all. He has kept me
impressed with all the also neat and quick
information he
can render
about his market in a few
seconds through Internet and the Web and as attachments he is constantly sending
me via E-Mail and so he keeps me posted of all his operation and information I
require. Very effective. He handles my outbound traffic to such terrific
destinations of the world”.
“My
friend Rabindra Rayamajhi; is a pure descendant from the Chhetris. His family
comes from the Palpa/Tansen District of Western Nepal and four (04) generations
before his families, were invited to Kathmandu to serve in key position of Nepal
Army. At the time, his grandfather served in Nepal Army as Dy. General (as all
positions of “General”, I learned, were blocked for the family of Ranas who
are also a branch of Chhetris). Rabindra’s father was a Civil Servant to your
Government. And this is how I got to learn so much about Chhetris. And if
Chhetris are coming originally from Jaipur, they must be the Sons of the Sun (Surya).
Such a exotic idea in my mind, also makes me very happy. I hold his
Representation by written since 1996, when he founded his Agency but my real
operation had started only since last year 1999 as I was engaged with other
local tour operators through USA for Nepal”.
1992-Today: ATB/Africa
Travel Bureau, a tour operator for Tanzania, owned and handled by my also friend,
Mr.Salomon J. Daudi (“King” Salomon for me). His services are impeccable and
of a very high quality too. I met “King” in 1983, when
I was appointed the representative for the Tanzania Tourist Board. At that time,
he was also collaborating for TTB. Now he has his own operation and in a very few
years he has developed enormously. Recently he bought his own safari-rovers. I
represent ATB in Mexico since 1992, very successfully.
1993-Today: Mr.
Luke Muilili King’oo, of LUKE TRAVEL
OF NAIROBI, Kenya, is also my correspondent
there. Beautiful service. Excellent quality. He is also a very
kind person. He was introduced to me by “King” Salomon. He has never regretted
so. And he is also another “King”. Actually, “we work in team for
the combination of safaris in both countries: Kenya and Tanzania”. I represents them since 1993.
1984-Up to date:
TTB / TANZANIA TOURIST BOARD. Represented since 1984: I am the only Representative in whole
America, including USA; I am the only non-African representing them in the
world. Tanzania is the other country I love too. Headquarters are in Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa. I do all handling of Visas for its Embassy in
Washington, D.C. USA.
Europe/104 times; India/29; Nepal/25; China/14; Tíbet /09; USA/+100, including Alaska; Japan/04; South Korea/03. All following countries, at least twice: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Netherlands's Antilles (Curacao and Aruba), most of the Caribbean Islands/many times, and the Bermudas/02 times, Venezuela, Colombia, Perú, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Canada (I lived 01 year in Montreal/1963), Kenya/10 times; Tanzania/12; Ethiopia, Egypt; Israel, Jordan, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, Ceylon/03 times; Myanmar, Thailand/15 times, Laos,. Viet Nam, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia/05 times, Borneo/03 times, Brunei, Indonesia/05 times, Philippines/04 times, Hong Kong/20 times, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Roratonga, Samoa, Papua, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Cook’s Islands; Tahiti.
1991-today: Connie Scheller Expeditions, S.A. de C.V., by my own account (free-lance). Tour operation to the most inaccessible sites and odd, and exotic places of the world, mainly to the Orient including India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Singapore, Malaysia, China/Tibet, Korea, Japan, Middle East, Africa, Oceania, and Central and South America. As mentioned before in this Section, since January 2000, we are engaged in the organization for Conventions, Regional Meetings and Seminars for big corporations. Actual Staff: Connie Scheller, General Director; Blanca Camacho, Sales Director. Special top executive for commercialization: Mr. Arturo Araujo. Technical Coordination Staff: Rocío de Prado, Carlos Camacho & Edgar Arceo.
1976-1982 and
1983-1991: American Express Co. (México).
Travel Division: In a progressive line: Reservations Manager, Sales Manager,
Manager, Special Account Royal Viking Line, Director for GSA/Representations of
the World and at the same time, Director TPM/Outbound
(Travel Product Marketing/Outbound. The last 10 years with American
Express she was dedicated to consolidate Contracts for the representations and
General Sales Agents for American Express, as to present the marketing plans, traveling
around the world, the whole year, at least 09 months of it. Within
the Accounts represented with sound success: Royal Viking Line (San Francisco,
Ca. & Miami, Fla); Cunard NAC (New York, N.Y.); Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
(Miami, Fla); Commodore Cruise Line (Miami, Fla), Dolphin Cruise Line (Miami,
Fla); Home Lines (New York, N.Y.); American Hawaii Cruises (San Francisco, Ca.);
Regency Cruises (New York, N. Y),
Clipper Cruise Line (St. Louis, Mo.) French Rail, Inc., -and before that, SNCF
French National Railroads (New York, N.Y., and Paris, France), Aloha Pacific
Cruises (San Francisco, Ca.); Amtrak –railroads- (Washington, D.C.); L.I.F.E.
/ Language Institute for English (Rutherford, N.J.); Tauck Tours, Inc.(Westport,
CT). The Colonnade Hotel (Coral Gables, Fla.); Miami Seaquarium (Miami, Fla.);
Mayfair Hotel, (Coconuts Grove, Fla); Omni
International Hotel (Miami, Fla.)
Doral Resorts of Florida (Miami, Fla.). Thifty Car Rental, (Miami, Fla.);
Rainbow Tours, (Beijing, China), within others. The services for the outbound
travel by my Area of TPM/Outbaound, they were negotiated, in situ, with our
Office in London, England (costs, selection of itineraries, hotels and
services).
1964-1976 KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines first in Monterrey, my home town and, later, in Mexico City. First
Post/Monterrey, N.L, México: Ticket agent and in charge of whole Office:
secretary to the Regional Manager, accountings, reservations, tickets and cargo.
First Post/México City: Secretary to Sales Director; Last Post/México, D.F., México:
Sales Supervisor for Mexican Republic.
Because of representative of TTB/ Tanzania Tourist Board in México since 1984, I belonged to the ADET/Asociacion de Delegados Extranjeros de Turismo (Association for Foreign Delegates of Tourism), for its term 1992-1993 I was its President. During other terms, I served as Public Relations and Vocal. And because of all that, and consequently, I have been in close contact with most of the foreign embassies in Mexico.
OTHER
PUBLIC RELATIONS AFFAIRS:
I have been
interviewed by most of the newspapers and top magazines and by TV
Stations in Mexico. If you wish, I can bring original magazines
with interviews upon your request. My house has also been photographed by
several magazines and by television, including Cable. My house keeps more than
5000 objects from around the world.
1984-1994:
Vogue (She belonged to its editorial for 10 years. The last two years before the
magazine closed due to the economic crisis in México, besides articles on
travel I had a monthly Column named “Preview”.
Other
Magazines:
Geografia
Universal, Vanidades, Karma, Jet Set, Buenhogar, Activa, Travesias por el Mundo,
De Vacaciones / On Vacations, Pasaporte 2000, Gazeta Turística, Bazar Turístico,
Guía Turista de Viajes, Guía Mexicana de Trafico.
Newspapers:
El Universal Gráfico, Excelsior, El Financiero, El Financiero, International Edition, Mi Colonia del Valle, El Heraldo de México, Novedes, Publimerc, Noti-Satelite Turístico, Tursitampa, Informa Pronto, Foro Turístico, Info Turismo, Dimensión Turística, Prensatur, Tan Travel (Tanzania) Tanzania Herald (Tanzania).
Bulletins:
I
have collaborated for PIMED, published by the Ministry of Tourism of Mexico,
bi-monthly. I collaborated with one article per edition while bulletin was
alive. AFEET, Asociacion Femenina de Ejecutivas en Turismo, a bulletin published
by a women travel association.
I
am specialized, since 1992, in organizing
temporary Exhibitions and Sale, (museum setting) of objects –antique and
contemporary- from the Africa, the Middle East and Orient, mainly. I
have written and composed several art catalogues for artistic painter Mr. Miguel
Hernández-Llaguno and texts for the profiles of painters René Alís, Rodrigo
Ugarte Dornbierer and Tito Barajas. I have written video-scripts for the
biography of several artists.
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