This week, we would like to take some time to introduce us to our newest addition to the Outlander Travel team, Beth Rudin. Like all of us, Beth’s love for travel began at an early age with domestic trips all over the Southeast and Florida. Her first trip abroad was in the summer of 1976 after her first year in college, when her grandparents invited her to join them on a trip to Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany and she fell in love with Europe. In 1981 she spent a summer in Scotland after she graduated from college, and shortly after, she accepted a position with Piedmont Airlines, which added fuel to the proverbial travel fire deep inside her.
In 1985 she was hired by a travel agency in Charlotte, NC where she was trained in the fields of corporate and leisure travel and her desire to travel increased. Since that time, Beth has visited much of Europe (some countries several times!) and the British Isles with her husband, Jim, including England, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Russia, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Majorca, Spain and Egypt, some on land and some by sea. Besides Europe, Beth and Jim have cruised Alaska and many of the Caribbean Islands.
Beth first visited Israel in the early 1990’s on a trip lead by her mother, and in the years to follow, she became part of the planning process. They would lead more than 8 groups together before her mother passed the baton to her in 2012, and due to her deep faith and love for the people of Israel, Beth hopes she will continue leading groups there for many years to come. And in the meantime, she continues to focus on the corporate travel market. Welcome, Beth!
