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Dianne Tuttle is the Owner and Qualifier of Academy Travel Consultants which she founded in 1989. She has over 30 years of experience in the travel industry and also holds a Federal Bond with the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC). Ms. Tuttle works closely with all cruises lines and tour operators and makes recommendations for vacation packages to her clients. Her jobs have included raising $200,000 in private capitol to start her travel agency. She is the administrator of Academy Travel School founded in 1990 to teach people how to become travel agents and start their own home-based travel agency. Ms. Tuttle also plans, writes and produces her local TV show, “Let’s Talk Travel” on public access channel. She holds positions on the Board of Directors on Commission on the Status of Women, reporting directly to County Board of Supervisors, SLOCOPA TV show, a non profit organization, and she is a former President of Optimists Club, past Ambassador for the local Chamber of Commerce, and is the founder and director of Travel Connections & Social Club.