TAKING OFF >>> CAROLINE BELGRAVE
TAKING OFF : Caroline Belgrave
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COURTESY OF CAROLINE BELGRAVE
After a year like 2020 , you have to — and sometimes hesitate to — ask : What ’ s next in the world of travel ? Caroline Belgrave of Nexion Travel Group had the answer long before the start of the reawakening of travel that we ’ re currently experiencing firsthand .
Welcome to the renaissance of travel + social media .
Meet Caroline On paper , Belgrave is the travel business development and education manager for Nexion Travel Group , a host agency with operations in the United States and across the globe as part of the Internova Travel Group . But her knowledge , expertise and passion cannot be fully demonstrated in just her title . Belgrave helps more than 5,000 travel advisors in North America navigate the Nexion tools and processes to help them achieve peak effectiveness in the travel businesses they are building for themselves . She leads the business development and education team on education for their largest annual event , CoNexion . She is on their team for the Social Pro Award and the Mentor Award and lends her expert advice and voice to training on social media , romance travel , diversity and inclusion at ongoing events . And she ’ s fully certified through The Travel Institute ; she ’ s earned her Certified Travel Associate , Certified Travel Counselor and Certified Travel Industry Executive certifications .
With over 18 years of experience in the travel , hospitality and marketing industries , she is the travel mentor and business spirit guide to agency owners and independent contractors that every travel professional can learn from . In fact , in 2017 , she won the Pax Global Media Social Media Guru of the Year Award by working in her top five social media platforms and sharing her love digitally with her travel community . Here is how she got there and how you can , too , with a little help from social media .
See ? How can you understand all of that from her title alone ?
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