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Phil Davidoff,
President

Phil Davidoff, CTC, CTIE, MCC, is a leading travel industry professional who is also active in travel and tourism marketing, education and training. He was President of VALU Travel Marketing, Inc., the travel industry's only consultiumsm from 1992 to 1997 and is co-founder and owner since 1969 of Belair Travel & Cruises and Fan Club Cruises in Florida. He was president of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) from October 1990 through September 1992 and had served as vice-president and president-elect prior to that. He also served on ASTA's staff as Vice President Education & Training from 1982-1984.

Phil is a Certified Travel Counselor (CTC), Certified Travel Industry Executive (CTIE) and Life Member of The Travel Institute (formely ICTA) and has earned the Master Cruise Counselor (MCC) designation from the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA). He has served as a member of the tourism faculties of The George Washington University and Northern Virginia Community College.

Phil is co-author with his wife of many books, and has been a presenter of a variety of seminars for many travel organizations.

Phil was chosen as 1991 Travel Person of the Year by Travel Agent magazine and was co-recipient with his wife, Doris, of Travel Trade magazine's 1991 Travel Agent of the Year award. He was also co-recipient, with his wife, of the first annual Achievement Award from the Society of Travel & Tourism Educators in 1988. Phil served as a Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors of the Travel Industry Association of America from 1991 through 1993.

Phil holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and has completed extensive graduate studies in Human Resource Development at The George Washington University.



Doris Davidoff,
Vice President

Doris Davidoff, CTC, CTIE, MCC is a leading travel industry professional who is also active in travel and tourism marketing, education and training. She is a co-founder and owner of Belair Travel & Cruises and Fan CLUB Cruises (in operation since 1969) in Florida and was vice-president of VALU Travel Marketing, Inc., the travel industry's only consultiumsm from 1992, until merging it with Empress Travel in 1997. She has been a travel and tourism educator since 1973.

Doris is a Certified Travel Counselor (CTC), Certified Travel Industry Executive (CTIE) and Life Member of The Travel Institute (formely ICTA) and has earned the Master Cruise Counselor (MCC) designation from the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA). She has served as a member of the tourism faculties of The George Washington University and Northern Virginia Community College.

Doris is co-author with her husband of many books, and has been a presenter of a variety of seminars for many travel organizations.She has written management articles for numerous travel trade publications and is currently the automation editor of Travel Trade. She has been a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and is a former trustee of the Institute of Certified Travel Agents.

Doris is a co-recipient, with her husband, Phil, of the first annual Achievement Award from the Society of Travel and Tourism Educators in 1988 and of Travel Trade magazine's Travel Agent of the Year award in 1992.

Doris earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Adelphi University and a Master of Arts degree with specialization in Tourism Development and Travel Administration from The George Washington University.

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