Meet the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award winners
Current and previous winners of Travel Weekly s LIfetime Achievement Awards at this year s virtual Readers Choice Awards. Photo Credit: Travel Weekly
This year Travel Weekly honored five people with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Brad and Van Anderson, the founders of Avoya Travel; Jackie Friedman, the president of Nexion Travel Group; and Beatrice and Stanley Tollman, the husband-and-wife team who founded the Travel Corporation.
Brad and Van Anderson, the founders of Avoya Travel. Photo Credit: Travel Weekly
Brad and Van Anderson
Brothers Brad and Van Anderson are the co-founders of Avoya Travel, a family-owned business that traces its roots to a Hawaiian travel company. Van got started in the travel industry when his parents, Pat and Pal, had him stickering brochures for that firm; Brad began his career in travel in 1973 working for his parents’ retail agency in California.
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companion. james: what was missing, i think, was that link that a parent has got to have with a child, if the child is going to be what we call normal. and i don t think jeremiah ever had that. jeremiah: the night i went down to the dining room at the hyde park hotel, we d been there a couple of months or something, and my parents, oddly enough, were in the dining room. and i sat down, and they sort of looked at me, and one of them said, you know, what are you doing here? and i said, i live here. you know? and they looked at each other, and each thought the other one had put me in school. jeremiah: my parents were always doing something else, but the richness of what was put in its place, meaning spending three months in my own suite at the hyde park hotel, i much preferred the hotel room to my parents for sure, you know?
think, was that link that a parent has got to have with a child, if the child is going to be what we call normal. and i don t think jeremiah ever had that. jeremiah: the night i went down to the dining room at the hyde park hotel, we d been there a couple of months or something, and my parents, oddly enough, were in the dining room. and i sat down, and they sort of looked at me, and one of them said, you know, what are you doing here? and i said, i live here. you know? and they looked at each other, and each thought the other one had put me in school. jeremiah: my parents were always doing something else, but the richness of what was put in its place, meaning spending three months in my own suite at the hyde park hotel, i much preferred the hotel room to my parents for sure, you know? much. you are the king and you re in your own kingdom.