Featured guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Marybeth will share her secrets with you, from her 11 books about women travel. Marybeth offers specific advice and inspiration for the growing number of women -- young, old, single, married, divorced and widowed -- who are hitting the road.
My Favorite Destinations
Rudy discusses his favorite places in the world and where to go now that won't require a second mortgage. Especially since it's nearly impossible to get a second mortgage!
Smart Packing For Today’s Travelers
Confused about what or how to pack? Want to pack light for your next trip? Join Susan Foster for a video presentation on Smart Packing For Today’s Travelers. Susan will teach you how to pack like a pro, as well as tips for increased airport security and the best bag and packing method for each trip. As a consummate outsider/insider of the travel industry, Foster has become an authoritative media source regarding the ever-changing airline and TSA rules and guidelines as well as packing in general for almost any occasion. This is a presentation all travelers should pay attention to!
Welcome & Getting the Most out of the Virtual Travel Show Experience
Get a quick overview of this virtual event and how you can use it to plan your next vacation. As one of the largest sellers of vacation packages and cruises, AAA Travel and CAA has the connections and expertise to help you plan everything from a quick weekend getaway to a round the world excursion.
Presentations
Glen MacDonell
Glen Mac Donell oversees the AAA preferred hotel program on behalf of AAA, a not-for-profit federation of 65 motor clubs that serves more than 51 million members in the United States and Canada. Additionally he manages the airline, rail and specialty tour programs for AAA Travel.
Glen joined AAA in 1999 after serving 12 years with United Airlines, and has traveled extensively during his 21 years in the travel business.
Marybeth Bond
Marybeth Bond is the nation’s preeminent travel expert on women and family travel — no other author, journalist or media personality brings her prodigious experience and expertise to the page, the screen, the podium or the airwaves. As a dynamic travel author and woman speaker, she offers a truly unique perspective providing insider’s tips, advice and stories.

In 1985 Marybeth began writing about women travel and encouraging all women to ‘go for it’ alone, with friends, or groups. She knew her subject well, for she had just returned from two years traveling alone around the world. During this journey she met her future husband, an American, in Katmandu. Her eleven books cover solo, family, adventure and girlfriend travel.

Award-winning author of National Geographic travel books, her latest are 50 Best Girlfriend Getaways, Gutsy Women, and A Woman’s World Again (all released in 2007). She is the Travel Spokesperson for corporate clients including AAA and Hilton Garden Inn.
Rudy Maxa
Rudy Maxa is a contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine and one of America's premier consumer travel broadcasters on public radio and television. You may know him as "The Savvy Traveler" on public radio's business show, "Marketplace."
Susan Foster
As a consummate outsider/insider of the travel industry, Foster has become an authoritative media source regarding the ever-changing airline and TSA rules and guidelines as well as packing in general for almost any occasion. In November 2007, Foster hosted the “Dodge VANtastic Holiday Voyage” challenges in Charlotte, NC and Minneapolis, MN offering simple tips for families, showing them how to pack more efficiently so vehicle travel can be more enjoyable for everyone. She is also a past spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson, and a popular professional speaker.

In 2000, she assembled her tips into a fact-filled, well-illustrated book, Smart Packing for Today’s Traveler. A revised and expanded edition was released in early 2004, and the newly updated Third Edition was released in April 2008. For the past few years, her website, www.smartpacking.com, has offered additional aid to travelers and media researchers with information about the travel industry’s latest rules and policy changes.