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Lifestyle & Learning

Location
Pleasant Hill, CA

Employees
90

2002 Revenue
$20MM

Web Site
www.gettravel.com

25 June 2002
GET Travel Awarded Top Producer by Disney Theme Parks

San Francisco–based GET Travel Group, LLC, the nation's leading student leisure tour operator, was recently awarded several top honors at the 10th Annual Disney® Youth Travel Planners Symposium, an invitation-only event celebrating Disneyland® Resort & Walt Disneyworld® Resort's top revenue producers.

This year, GET Travel Group was the only company that had three company brands invited: Adventures America®, Music America®, and GET Travel®. In addition to its attendance at the symposium, Adventures America® won the overall award for the Top Producer for Disneyland Resort Grad Nite® in 2001, and GET Travel won the overall award for Top Producer for Disneyland Resort Theme Park Adventures® in 2001.

Rip Hunter, CEO & President of GET Travel, announced the awards, saying, "We appreciate Disneyland Resort's recognition of our commitment and accomplishments. Over the last year, we drove more than 30,000 admissions to Disney Theme Parks, and with the tremendous support that we get from our host and partner, we have every intention of driving even more next year."

Kim Betts, Senior Sales Manager for Disneyland Resort Youth Markets, acknowledged GET Travel Group's achievements as well, commenting, "Rip Hunter and his team at GET Travel Group are some of our most productive partners in travel. We appreciate their professional operation."

Founded in 1985, GET Travel Group, LLC will register over 73,000 participants for its group tours in 2002. The company operates trips across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. GET Travel has developed nationally recognized brand names, Invasion Tours®, Adventures America®, LA Ski & Sun Tours®, and Music America®, which it uses to market its trips to groups nationwide. CEO Rip Hunter and his brothers, Dave and Rich, founded the company and have built a track record of high standards and seventeen years of growth ever since. Today, the company is owned and controlled by its founders, its management, and Dallas-based firm Black Knight Partners, LP.

POC: Rob Holmes, 214 695 4243