Stephanie Abrams, rated on of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Travel by Travel Agent Magazine, has distinguished herself in the travel industry having been, for 16 years, the second in command of a major company in the travel industry, and has been recognized for her significant contribution to the growth and development of tourism destinations and suppliers and attractions in the industry having been awarded: The Goddess Artemis Award for her contribution to tourism growth in Greece; The Honorary Friend of St. Patrick Award from the Saint Patrick Centre in Northern Ireland; Best Travel Marketing, Best Travel PR Campaign, and Best Travel Radio Commercial awards from the prestigious travel industry trade magazine, Travel Weekly; Pearl Honoree of the Big Apple Project for her Signature Legacy. Stephanie Abrams has served on the Dollar/Thrifty Auto Group's Advisory Board, the ASTA Council of Travel Marketing Organizations (ACTMO) of the American Society of Travel Advisors, the SystemOne/Amedeus Unison Advisory Board, the Amadeus International Advisory Board, the Honk Kong Tourism Authority Advisory Board, the International Franchise Association International Affairs Committee, among others. She has consulted for independent hotels and has received recognition for her philanthropic work from such institutions as the Sisters of Mercy for her philanthropic work as "The Travel Fairy Godmother." Interest in her insights, experience and knowledge of the travel industry after 9/11 created invitations for her to appear on radio and TV stations which included ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and resulted in an invitation to have her own radio show on the BusinessTalkRadio Network which opened the door to her own radio show, Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams which debuted on July 7, 2002. Radio shows continue to broadcast weekly coast-to-coast in the US, domestically, archived at sAbrams.net and podcast extensively worldwide, and her video VLOGs and archived episodes of Travel TV WITH Stephanie Abrams are archived at www. sAbrams.net and podcasters after they broadcast nationwide on ROKU, Amazon Fire TV and on android and iPhone platforms on the BizVOD channel. Stephanie Abrams, born in Baltimore, MD, grew up in New York City, after a short period living in Miami Beach, Florida, and received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science Degrees from Queens College of the City of New York. She lives in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts with her husband and English Springer Spaniel where, in addition to creating new weekly radio travel information designed to educate and motivate people to travel to richly to places that Stephanie Abrams is confident they will return home "enriched, enhanced, inspired, and uplifted," she is also consumed with creating new episodes for her "Travel TV" show, working on her first travel guide, 1001 Reasons to Visit Ireland, and working on SECRET, the sequel to her critically acclaimed novel, RUMORS, which is available at all online booksellers.