Wednesday - May 7, 2008
All Horizons Office

6:00 - 7:00 pm

Mo will be discussing the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, discovering the special scenic rail journeys, luxury cruises and spectacular lodges.  Learn about the Australian Outback and New Zealand’s Milford Sound as Maureen shares with you, her favorite itineraries!

In October 2001, All Horizons Travel, Inc. left the Rancho Shopping Center

May 9, 2007

Maureen Jones, President of All Horizons Travel Inc won the prestigious “Kiwi Specialist of the Year” award at the Tourism New Zealand annual conference.

Bruce Lahood, Vice President of Tourism New Zealand when announcing the award said Maureen’s knowledge of his country was outstanding, as where her lectures, newspaper articles, and the wonderful itineraries she prepared for her clients to have a dream vacation in the Land of the Long White Clouds. The judges were delighted to give the award to such an outstanding destination specialist.

Maureen was given a lovely Maori carved sandstone piece as a prize.

MAUREEN ST. JOHN-DEAN JONES
PRESIDENT, ALL HORIZONS TRAVEL, INC.

Maureen Jones is a native of Great Britain. She has earned five degrees in Economics, Telecommunications, Tourism, and Travel Management including an M.B.A. She has lived in the United States for over 30 years and has worked for many years in the corporate world as Vice President of Administration for several Fortune 500 companies. Her responsibilities included travel, meeting and incentives, and company divisions on a worldwide basis. Controlling costs within a company of 40,000 employees was a major function of her job. She had 17 cost centers under her.

Maureen bought All Horizons Travel in 1989 and other agencies in 1995 and merged them into the present company. The 40 multi-lingual experts handle leisure, corporate, cruises, groups, and the meeting/incentive market. They are specialists in 39 countries and many cruise lines. A member of the prestigious Signature Travel Network consortium. All the staff are Destination Specialists.

She has traveled extensively to over 120 countries and has taken 100 cruises. She gives over 60 lectures a year to organizations and is on several Advisory Boards. Maureen is a College Professor, teaching in the Travel Careers Program.

Currently Maureen is on the Board and an active member of International Women in Travel, Association of Retail Travel Agencies, Pacific and Asia Travel Association, the Caribbean Tourist Association, and the Peninsula Travel Agency Owners Association. Director of International Federation of Women in Travel. An active member in 25 organizations.

She is a certified Premier expert on Australia, one of only 100 agents in America with this ranking, and has additional certificates from the Northern Territory, Queensland, and Tasmania and other States. She was on the Queensland Great Barrier Reef Advisory Board. She was also on the Tourism Australia Strategic Planning Committee. She has won several Opal Awards, the highest honor given by the Australian Tourist Commission for excellence in marketing down-under and preparing outstanding itineraries. She is also a travel editor for the Australian-American Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, she is a certified specialist for 39 countries, including the South Pacific, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Switzerland, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She is a luxury cruise and small ship specialist also.

Winner of the New Zealand 2007 Specialist of the Year Award, and the Luxury Travel Agent of the Year. Appointed to the World Luxury Travel Council.

She is a contributing editor for three travel organizations newsletters and writes a weekly travel column for the Los Altos Town Crier newspaper as well as a quarterly column on Food and Wine, and Destination Honeymoons.

G'day. My name is Maureen Jones and I am a Premier Aussie Specialist (one of only 100 in the world), and have additional expert certificates from Tasmania, Northern Territory, Queensland. I am also a specialist for 39 countries including New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti, the Cook Islands and many more.

I have created this web site to provide detailed information on the must see's and must do's when traveling down under.

As you browse through this site please feel free to click on the "Ask Mo" link (just to the left) and drop me an e-mail with any questions or comments you might have.

Sincerely,

Maureen Jones
President
All Down Under Travel
A Division of All Horizons Travel, Inc.