The Travel Industry

Ms. Bauer is an independent business consultant specializing in the areas of Business Systems Analysis and Business Process Re-Engineering of software applications for the Financial Services Industry, Travel Industry, and Insurance Industry clients. She also has significant experience providing consulting to various area companies in the realm of Client Relationship Management.

Following a childhood acting career, which spanned more than 70 films, Anastasia graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California. She started her tourism career in hotel sales and marketing originally as the first female corporate sales manager for Hilton Hotels Corporation based in Los Angeles, followed by the Stanford Court in San Francisco, and then spent over nine years as Director of Sales & Marketing for the prestigious Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Anastasia moved from hotel marketing to become the first US President of Operations for British-based Mark Allan Travel - which is now the entertainment division of American Express. As a founding member of the California Travel & Tourism Commission, she served two terms as the sole representative for all travel management agencies in the state. During both her terms she sat on the Executive Committee. Anastasia is currently serving her second term on the board of CalTIA (California Travel Industry Assn). Her additional contributions to the travel and tourism industry include 10 years on the international board of directors of the Travel & Tourism Research Association (serving as President and Chair as well); past-president of Southern California chapter of HSMAI; founding member of MPI; board member of PATA Los Angeles; member of International PATA's first Marketing Committee; founding chairman of the West Hollywood Visitor's and Convention Bureau (currently chairing its Board of Governors); long-standing member of the West Hollywood, Hollywood & California Chambers of Commerce; California representative to the White House Conference on Tourism (Clinton Administration); sole tourism representative on the Trade Mission to Soviet Union (GHW Bush administration); Hollywood Arts Council governor; President of SKAL International - Los Angeles, to name a few. Among her various honors, she is the namesake as well as first recipient of the Anastasia K Mann Leadership Award presented annually by the Travel and Tourism Marketing Association (established in 2002). In October 2005 the highly respected magazine, Luxury Travel Advisor, featured Anastasia and Corniche Group as the cover story. She was also recently named the 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year by the California Travel Industry. Anastasia is also active in her local community government affairs. She is currently the President of the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council representing over 45,000 individual stakeholders (residential and business) including the Hollywood Bowl; Universal Studios and the Hollywood-Highland/Kodak Theatre complex. She has frequent interaction with the LA City Council and LA County Board of Supervisors on behalf of her constituents and community events. In addition to publishing her own corporate travel magazine, The Corniche Club, Anastasia wrote a regular column called "Star Tracking" for Orbitz for four years. In "Star Tracking," Anastasia covered the travel habits of celebrities as they trek around the globe and featured many fascinating destinations domestically and abroad. The stories proved inspirational to many travelers planning A-list-level vacations. Her regular audience included millions of Americans as well as international readers. Her personal travels throughout the world include 107 countries thus far. Among her favorite destinations are the countries of southern and eastern Africa and, of course, Italy! Her speaking engagements over the years have included major travel industry conferences throughout the USA as well as internationally. In February of 2003 she was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Peace through Tourism in Geneva, Switzerland and again presented a keynote address to the IIPT Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia in February 2005. Anastasia is frequently called upon by the media to comment on the status of the travel industry on television, radio and in print. She has done over 600 interviews on network...