Friday, February 5, 2010

MARION R. VALDERRAMA APPOINTED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE KENNETH R. HIEBER GROUP OF TRAVEL COMPANIES

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2010
NEW YORK, NY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

In New York City yesterday, Marion R. Valderrama, Founder & President of Protea Travel Services accepted her appointment to the Board of Directors of the Kenneth R. Hieber Group of Travel Companies.

“Valderrama, a veteran Travel Specialist, is a valuable asset who brings with her 20+ years of extensive travel knowledge,” said 2AFRIKA, INC. Founder & President, Kenneth R. Hieber during a press interview, “and I have no doubt that her valuable input will be of great value to the Kenneth R. Hieber Group of Travel Companies.”

Now, the Kenneth R. Hieber Group of Travel Companies is comprised of 2AFRIKA, INC., GAY2AFRIKA, INC., PROTEA TRAVEL SERVICES, ANOTHER COUNTRY THROUGH MY EYES, the AFRICA TOURISM BOARD, and the AFRICAN BUSH WALK Company.

Valderrama and Hieber have nurtured a working relationship that has spanned a fifteen-year tenure and this recent appointment is as Hieber put it “The next progressional step to strengthen our business relationship.”

Well known for her strong leadership qualities, Marion remains constantly acknowledged as a ‘Businesswoman of high moral values and integrity’.

Both parties are delighted at this developing business relationship. Between the two of them, they boast 50+ years of invaluable travel experience – that’s experience you can come to rely on in this modern age of on-line booking portals. Both Valderrama and Hieber are ‘hands-on’ professionals who prefer the ‘old-fashioned’ method of ‘talking with their valued passengers’.

“That way,” they add “passengers instantly feel an elevated level of comfort, for they know that we are there for them 24/7 and they [the passengers] are not left to the mercy of modern day computerization."



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