Whether deep under the ocean in Bermuda, kissing a dolphin in Nassau, or atop a glacier in Alaska you can find Talula anywhere but at home. Talula Guntner holds a BA in Elementary Education/Library Science from Columbia College and a Masters of Arts in Education and Human Development with a specialization in Travel and Tourism as well as an Ed. S. degree from the George Washington University. Working in the travel industry in the Washington, D.C. area since 1972, she has managed a full service agency, a cruise agency and a group agency. For six years she was the director of a travel school. Currently she is an Assistant Dean and Professor of Travel and Tourism at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC). She is a member of IFWTO, the International Federation of Women Travel Organizations. She is past President of PROST, Executive Women in Travel and Bons Vivants Travel Club in D.C. and is a past co-chair of the Mid-Atlantic ICTA forum. In 1989 she was the recipient of the ASTA Avis Rent a Car scholarship. On the Annandale campus of NVCC she is the club advisor of the ASTA Future Travel Professionals club, on the Campus Council and the college's speakers' bureau. In addition to speaking locally, she was a speaker for ASTA'sTravel Educator's Forum (1990), ASTA Future Travel Professionals (1997), ASTA Trainingfest (1998), ASTA World Congress (2000), Louisiana Tourism Travel & Tourism Summit (2001), ASTA Southern Expo (2001) and Air Jamaica World of Travel (2001 & 2002). She has reviewed travel text books and evaluated travel correspondence courses. She authored: Learning Apollo Basic and Advanced Training (Delmar) and, more recently, the Mature Adult Travel Specialist book for ASTA's Home Study Program. She is also the owner of TalulaTravels.com. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband John who is a novelist. Contact Talula for travel consulting, speaking and mystery shopping. Northern Virginia Community College 703 323-3175 tguntner@nvcc.edu NVCC offers a travel certificate and a Tour Guiding Career Studies certificate.  Contact Talula for details on NVCC classes. Contact Talula for all your travel needs Talula Guntner, Ed.S., CTC, MCC Talula Travels.com I'll Tell You Where To Go! 8096 Powderbrook Lane Springfield, VA 22153 703 455-0760 email me at ttravels@cox.net
Talula floats through a cave on a shore excursion  from the Celebrity Galaxy in Belize. Two academics in a kayak on Coco Cay and  they did it without having a single meeting!