December's Spotlight is online

Hello from Group Tour Media.

Welcome to the year-end holiday season and to the December issue of Group Tour Spotlight e-magazine. This month features Editors' Picks.

We concentrated on niche areas for our selections because that seems to be one of the ways tour operators are finding success these days. We have articles in the popular faith-based travel, fund-raising travel, and culinary travel categories as well as the more specialized Civil War Sesquicentennial. We've tossed in a couple of unique regional add-ons.

Cindi Brodhecker and I talked about the faith-based travel market in this month's Spotlight interview. Cindi is the president of Faith Travel Development & Consulting and is launching The Priscilla Woman's Tours, a company that will offer tours for women.

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Here is wishing all of you a happy holiday season and a safe and prosperous new year.

David Hoekman
Managing Editor

P.S. Canada will be the subject of the January Group Tour Spotlight e-magazine.

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Spotlight Interview

Strengthening fellowship and faith
Cindi Brodhecker, owner of Faith Travel Development & Consulting in Ephrata, Pa., facilitates faith-based travel, begins new tour company for women

Spotlight Articles

Civil War Sesquicentennial:


• Six Civil War cities
  


• Confederate birthplace
  Alabama's Civil War Trail locations showcase the state's role in the conflict

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Celebrating Faith

• 6 Higher Places
  


• Biblical tales
  Sight & Sound Theatres brings stories of faith to the heart of Amish Country

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Giving back

• Making a difference
  Give back with Tour for the Cure®


• Cruise for the Cause
  Breakaway Tours sets sail in support of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life

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Unique regional add-ons

• Return of the bugle
  Elk-viewing tours are scheduled at three Eastern Kentucky state parks


• A family affair
  The Dutch Store

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Culinary adventures

• 5 flavorful food finds
  Because we all like to eat


• Hot stuff!
  Savor the tastes of the Southwest at the Santa Fe School of Cooking

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