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 Lynn has a variety of interests, including spending quality time with her family, friends, cat and dog. She's a Green Bay Packers fan who likes going to Packer games, horseback riding and hiking. When summertime calls, Lynn enjoys swimming, boating and jet skiing at her summer cottage.
Lynn, Vice-President and Co-Owner of Salentine Travel, has been in the travel business since 1982, and a Certified Travel Consultant (CTC) since 1984. After managing her own successful agency for seventeen years, Lynn met Jacque Salentine in 2003, and the two merged their companies to form Salentine Travel, LLC, the brick-and-mortar storefront, and Travel Services, LLC, the company’s internet business. Lynn manages our fulfillment division and produced over 110 million in airline ticket sales annually.
Lynn is an accomplished travel specialist with extensive experience in planning, organizing, and managing operations on a large scale... She has worked in the travel industry for over 28 years, and specializes in the exotic locales of the greater South Pacific, such as Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand. Lynn has toured much of the globe and has a personal love of cruising Mexico and the Caribbean. Lynn’s most memorable trip was an African Tented Safari. Most recently, she has enjoyed further developing her expertise in South American travel, including Ecuador, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands. Although Lynn is more involved in the administrative side of Salentine Travel, she still stays current with all the new travel trends. Lynn is always happy to share her vast knowledge of travel with her talented team. She is committed to keeping Salentine Travel at the top.
Lynn's new toy is the, new Corporate Travel-Booking Engine ~ Salentine Connection. The new Salentine Connection was engineered to work as an electronic travel agent; it searches, utilizes profile preferences and books air, car and hotel. The Salentine Connection works like a travel arranger by enforcing corporate travel policies and applying corporate discounts. Salentine Connection is able to hold all of your frequent flyer information and personal/corporate information. The Salentine Connection makes searching easy with its All-in-One search, allowing users to add hotel and car to their search simply by clicking a checkbox. Salentine Connection offers one-way, round-trip and multi-leg searches with the ability to search by schedule or search by lowest fare. In addition, Salentine Connection provides a suite of advanced search options. The Salentine Connection will automatically price your selection(s) and offer low-fare alternatives.
Lynn would like to invite you to visit our new Corporate Travel-Booking Engine ~ Salentine Connection Request.
Q: What are some of your most memorable or favorite trips?
A: My favorite trip was an African Safari to Kenya. The Mt. Kenya Safari Club resort has a fireplace in every room and beautiful views of the mountains, and the original Stephanie Powers animal orphanage is there. So much fun to walk around with the wild animals, holding a bush baby, feeding the monkeys and you can even ride a huge 100 year old turtle. The photo Safari is a wonderful experience, seeing zebras, elephants, and lions. We took the super highway to Masai Mara game reserve and stopped along the way to visit a village. We toured the village and saw the huts that they leaved in and the beautiful jewelry they made and wore. Next we flew to the Samburu game reserve and in the morning they told us we were going to a hippo breakfast, we thought large breakfast, but when we arrived the breakfast tables were all set up next to the pool of water with hippo’s. It was an amazing experience.
Another experience on the safari is the tented camps, better than some hotel rooms. The tents have ceiling fans, lights, mahogany four posted beds, marble bathrooms, swimming pools and private balcony with monkeys in the trees.
My favorite cruise line is Royal Caribbean. They have so much to do onboard the cruise: mini-golf, rock climbing, waiveflow rider, shuffleboard, basketball, and lots of games, great calypso music and dancing. The ports-of-call on an Eastern Caribbean Cruise are fabulous: St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St Croix, San Juan and more, lots of shopping, and the best jewelry around. I’ll never forget Grand Cayman and swimming with the sting rays.
Q: Describe the internet arm of the company. How does that fit in to the overall vision?
A: The internet portion of the company specializes in business-to-business services within the travel industry. For example, if an agency has a website, they need someone to do the ticketing, which is where we come in. We are able to make sure their customer is getting the lowest fare, book the seating assignments, process the airline tickets, send email confirmations to their customers and do the final finishing. We also have a corporate booking engine tool that allows an agency’s corporate accounts to book travel services quickly and easily, in a secure online environment. Our booking tool is linked to the agency’s web-site, where their customers can make airline, hotel or rental car reservations, and can create their own profiles, saving all their frequent flyer numbers, hotel IDs, and rental car IDs.
Q: Describe some recent travel trends you’ve seen. What new developments is the travel industry seeing right now?
A: Lot's of people that were booking on line are dissatisfied with the booking process and the time it takes to do all the research. Those people are coming back to our brick and mortar business. We can accommodate them both online and off.
Q: What piece of advice would you give to your business-to-business clients right now?
A: Outsourcing can be very cost effective for companies who just want to focus on their core competencies. One of our clients, the second largest convention housing corporation in the United States saved a quarter million dollars last year by outsourcing fulfillment to Salentine.
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