Christina Ernst – From Travel Professional to Tour Operator VIP Southern Tours
| Duration 00:33:59 | Posted in by Richard Bryan Earls, Lynda Phillippi


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What does it take to move from being a travel professional to a tour operator? Today, Linda and I interview Christina Ernst of VIP Southern Tours. Christina gathered up her courage, bought a fleet of vans, and started a business doing wine tours in the Northern Georgia Mountains. She explains how she made the transition, the challenges she faced, and the brand she has built over the last few years.

What possibilities do you have for expanding your own business locally?

https://www.facebook.com/christinanagyernst

https://www.facebook.com/VipSouthernTours

http://vipsoutherntours.com/

My article on the topic:

https://www.travelresearchonline.com/blog/index.php/2020/10/act/

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Lynda Phillippi has been in travel for 16 years, as an advisor and host agency owner. Renaissance Travel and Events specializes in small group travel, cruises, and Europe. She is a part chapter president of ASTA in Portland, Oregon, and the current Regional Director for ASTA in the Pacific Northwest. She’s…

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Richard Earls has spent the last 30 years in the travel industry as an agency owner, a technologist, a publisher and a writer. A serial entrepreneur, Richard has sold two of his start-up companies prior to his current projects, Travel Research Online, Voyager Websites and Travmarket Media The publishing credits to…

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