Currently based in San Francisco,
Chris McGinnis is the director of Travel Skills
Group, Inc., and has covered consumer and business
travel issues since 1987 in a variety of roles:
>Contributor, CNN On-The-Go, a
series of television segments covering travel news
and trends appearing on CNN, HLN and CNN.com.
>Editor,
Expedia Travel
Trendwatch, a quarterly report on consumer
travel trends, insight and tips from Expedia.com,
the world’s leading online travel service.
>Editor and publisher of
TheTICKET, a
monthly e-newsletter and Web site for frequent
travelers.
>Travel correspondent for
CNN Headline News,
and Travel Adviser columnist for
CNN.com where he covered consumer travel issues
from 1996 through 2005. He also served as travel
correspondent for the Weather Channel for two years.
McGinnis also creates and writes business travel
newsletters for Fortune 500 corporations.
Additionally, he serves as a sales and marketing
consultant for travel related publications and
businesses.
Chris leads seminars and panel discussions in the
US and abroad on business travel topics. He also
offers training courses for novice business
travelers who are about to embark on careers that
require frequent travel. He is a widely quoted
expert in all major business publications, including
USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business
Week and Fortune and is a regular
guest on many business-related radio and television
shows.
Before focusing on business travel, Chris was a
management consultant and corporate trainer, logging
over 100,000 frequent flyer miles a year.
And before all of the above, he earned a Master’s
degree in International Management from the
Garvin School of
International Management (”Thunderbird”) in
Phoenix, AZ, and an undergraduate degree from the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
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