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Alicia Richmond - Alicia Richmond is the founder of Chic on a Shoestring – a style and wardrobe consulting company. Since the company's beginning in 2003, she is most well known for her simple approach to taking current fashion trends and adapting them to real people with real bodies and real budgets.

Four years ago, Alicia combined her love of travel and bargain shopping into Chic on a Shoestring shopping tours. Whether you join a shopping tour in the United States or internationally, the experience is incredible. Come and make lasting friendships and visit some of the most breath taking places in the world. Alicia will help you find the best bargains around no matter where you travel.

Be sure to catch Alicia’s Chic on a Shoestring fashion segments every Thursday on the Emmy-winning ABC 4 talk show, “Good Things Utah.” She completed a bachelor's of science degree in Clothing and Textiles from Brigham Young University with an emphasis in fashion consultation. She and her husband, Evan, are raising four children. Two of Alicia’s children also have experienced the traveling bug and have each been to China. They think this is the best part of their mom’s career. For more info www.chiconashoestring.com

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Dian Thomas - With 30-plus years of travel and media experience, nationally renowned New York Times best-selling author, TV personality, and professional speaker Dian Thomas now escorts tours to many international destinations. Her love for people and the excitement and enthusiasm she brings to the travel experience are a perfect fit, helping you enjoy the world in a fun-loving way. As a successful entrepreneur and author of 18 books, Dian knows firsthand how to entertain groups, create memorable moments, and help you gain the most from every excursion. For eight years she was a regular on NBC's Today show, followed by six years on ABC's Home Show . She was the subject of over 5,000 media interviews, including the Tonight show with Johnny Carson and ABC's Good Morning America. Come have the time of your life and let Dian help you discover the lands and seas you have only dreamed about.

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Don Keaton - Don Keaton has been employed by the church educational system over 20 years and is currently an instructor at Westminster Institute. He received his under graduate degree at Utah State and MAED at the University of Phoenix. As the artistic director of several musical theater groups, he has had the opportunity to tour and travel domestically visiting and performing at a variety of church history sites. Music will be an included focus of the sights and sounds of the early beginnings of the church. Experiencing the Church History sites deepens and expands individual scriptural studies. Stories and doctrine come alive by visualizing on location life changing events that shaped future generations and a worldwide church. He is married to Jean S. Keaton a renowned LDS artist, and the father of 5, children 2 daughters and three sons.

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Steve and Annette Israelsen - Steve and Annette Israelsen live in Kaysville, Utah. They both grew up in the beautiful Cache Valley and have a little country in their hearts. They have three children and a grandson, who is the light of their life.
Steve works as a CEO in the development and hotel industry. He is a part owner of the beautiful Palmyra Inn located around the corner from the temple in Palmyra New York. He is also the General Manager of the Armstrong Mansion, a gorgeous Victorian bed and breakfast located in downtown Salt Lake City.
Annette is an enthusiastic, outgoing, fun, and an organized individual. She has many years experience in running different volunteer and church organizations. She especially enjoyed coordinating a trip for 30 youth to a leadership training session at Princeton University. She is also grateful for the experience of serving a medical mission, as the youth coordinator, to China.
The Israelsen's have a love of people and a love of travel.

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Ted Winder - With more than 37 years in the travel industry, Ted has directed groups in more than 60 countries worldwide. A geographer at heart, his favorite saying is by the Prophet Mohammed - "Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me where you have traveled." He is a Certified Travel Counselor and Life Member of the Travel Institute in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He currently serves as a member of the board for the Utah Tour Guide Association and is one of its founding members. Ted's friendliness, attention to detail and years of travel experience have made him a favorite among travelers. He and his wife JaNae now make their home in beautiful Torrey, Utah.

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Keri Evans - Keri DiSera Evans (wife of national bestselling author Richard Paul Evans) began her love affair with Italy more than a decade ago when her father took her back to the old country to find their ancestral home. Shortly after her return Keri talked her husband, Richard, into moving to Italy with their 5 children where her passion for Italia inspired another of Richard’s bestselling novels, an Italian love story called The Last Promise. Since that time, Keri has traveled nearly every corner of Italy and considers herself “a displaced Italian”. She studies the language, culture and cooking and continues to help her friends find the best sites, shopping and food in the country.
Keri’s dream is to help others discover the beauty of the Italy, whether it’s in the Chianti wine country, floating the canals of Venice or walking in reverent awe beneath Michelangelo’s masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel. From small hill towns to the bustling streets of Rome, you’ll have an experience you’ll never forget.
With Buon Viaggio Italy, you’ll experience the culture not just as a tourist, but as a part of a remarkable culture of the one country everyone must see at least once in their lifetime.

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Alf Gunn - Alf Gunn took his mission language—Portuguese—into a 30-year career in law enforcement and today utilizes Portuguese and Spanish in providing travel security presentations. Alf enjoys maintaining an email newsletter correspondence with over 2,000 former Brazilian missionaries and is now a veteran of four specialty tours to Brazil with former missionaries and family members who served there. He and Marcia call the Pacific Northwest their home, where most of their 10 grandchildren live and where he bicycles and sea kayaks year-round.

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