Our Specialists
Paula Hunt
Paula Hunt, our Manager of the Travel Department, came to us with close to 20 years travel experience. She began her career working as sales coordinator for Signature Vacations here in Winnipeg, assisting the groups and sales departments with event planning, marketing and promotions. After 3 years in the Operators side of the business she moved to retail travel where she enjoyed researching and planning personal vacations for individual clients. In 1994 she moved to Calgary and eventually Vancouver where she worked in Management with various agencies for 10 years.
In 2003 she made the move home to Winnipeg with her family and also to corporate travel with Navigant Canada where she lead her team on the VIP desk for their largest accounts. She successfully dealt with all their executives, from planning functions to reserving last minute flights to planning their personal family vacations. When the opportunity at Renaissance Travel opened up she gladly made the move back to retail where she has been working as senior travel counselor and Manager since 2006.
Melissa Duguay
Melissa has been in the travel industry since October of 2006 when she began her career at HRG. She looked after various desks during her year and half there and learned much about the reservation process. She joined the Renaissance at Journeys travel team in February of 2008 and has become an exceptional agent this past year. Her travels have taken her to Disney World, Florida, on a motorcoach tour of charming Italy and most recently to beautiful Varadero Cuba. She looks forward to helping you plan your vacation in the future.
Meghann Wright
Meghann recently finished a two year travel and tourism course in Belleville, Ontario where she graduated on the Dean's List. She had an opportunity to travel to New York City in the course and spent 3 wonderful days touring around Manhattan. To finish off the course she completed her internship in a Visitor Information Center in Rochester, England were she spent two months touring around Great Britain seeing all the sites and learning as much as she could about the history. Meghann has been all across Canada, from Edmonton to Halifax as well as a few select places in the United States. In March 2008 she had the opportunity to visit Cuba for the first time and spent an entertaining week there. She joined the Renaissance Travel team here at Journeys in August 2008 and enjoys her new position as junior counselor.
Deb Peters
I have been a travel consultant with Renaissance and Journeys Travel for the past 10 years and enjoy helping clients book their vacations. I have a passion for travelling and have travelled five continentents including China, Europe, South America, Antarctica and most of the Caribbean and all of Mexico. I have escorted groups on Coach Tours throughout Europe and enjoy meeting new people throughout the world sharing experiences and cultures of different countries. You may hear me on the radio talking of travel on the Journeys Travel Show which airs on Sundays at noon on CJOB. I work seasonally from September to April at Renaissance and through the spring and summer as a Real Estate Consultant with Comfree Private Sales.
Maureen Arbik
I have been in the Travel Industry since 1988, originally from Great Britain while living in United Kingdom I travelled to Spain and once I got the feel of travel and did not want to stop
My experience most recently is on a Holland America Cruise to the Mexican Riviera which I enjoyed immensely. Enjoyed travelling to Europe on Eurail pass, through out Britain on a Brit rail pass, travelling to Mexico, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun Mayan Riviera, Mazatlan, Jamaica, travelled all across Canada from Vancouver to Sydney Nova Scotia, enjoyed a trip to Niagara Falls this summer (2010) it was spectacular experiencing the Maid of the Mist. United states of America Las Vegas, San Antonio Texas, Florida, Disney World, Hawaii, Kaui, Dallas Texas.
My employment History has been working for Leisure Agency’s and also Corporate Agency’s both in Winnipeg and for a short period of time in Calgary. I have been working for Renaissance travel since July 26th 2010. Don’t hesitate to call me
Laura Forrest
Laura joined Renaissance Travel in 2002. She is relatively new to travel, both personally and professionally but she loves it and enjoys the challenge of looking for yet another perfect vacation destination for her clients and herself.
Laura has visited a few destinations including: the Mayan Riviera (active with a lot to offer a wide variety of people), Cozumel (lovely to explore and fantastic snorkeling), Punta Cana (windy and wonderful fun), Varadero (beautiful beach and people), Jamaica (incredible beach and resorts in Negril), Trinidad and Tobago (Carnival, Soca, beaches and great food), England (culture and history and Cream Tea), and Costa Rica (beaches, volcanos, jungle, wildlife and eco tourism). Laura's belief: " It is a big world out there, get out and see it!"
Stacey Bond
Stacey Bond joined our team in the fall of 2008. She is presently a fulltime business student who loves to travel. She has had the pleasure of visiting the west coast multiple times to see old friends and partake in a bit of snowboarding. She was also lucky enough to head down south to the USA, including Disney World Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Grand Forks and Minnesota. In addition to that, she has been to Western Europe, including glorious Greece, sunny Spain, charming Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Belgium and London. Next on her list……Australia.
Cathy Perron
Cathy started with Renaissance travel in October 1994 and was with us until January 2000 when she left to pursue other career opportunities in the travel industry. She worked in various management positions until October 2007 when she came back to us here at Renaissance Travel. She works only during the winter months and during the summer owns and operates her owner diner. She hopes to come back to work as senior agent once she has recovered from an injury suffered this past summer. Cathy is mother to 17 year old Shawn and 16 year old Caitlin and when she has the time she loves to travel, read, relax and explore. She has been to many destinations but never the same place twice. One day Cathy hopes to semi retire in Hawaii … her favorite destination by far so far!
Courtenay McLean
Courtenay McLean has been a part-time agent at Renaissance Travel since Septemeber 2003. In this time she has completed two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Manitoba. Courtenay caught the "travel bug" in 1999 and has visited many countries around the world. Her travel resume includes backpacking in Australia and New Zealand, cruising the Mediterrianean, motorcoaching in Egypt and most recently using the Shinkansen in Japan.