Michael Steinberger: With 4 decades experience in travel to Latin American, Michael Steinberger is considered a pioneer in tourism to Central and South America. During a span of 40 years, Michael developed a broad and diverse understanding of the industry, including in-depth product and destination knowledge, leveraged against a wide range of contacts in the industry, including the private, as well as government sectors. These contacts combined with the many years' hands-on experience and development of marketing skills provides Michael unique perspectives and opportunities in the development of business models exceeding the norms of the industry. A proactive visionary in the emergence of Latin America tourism, Michael Steinberger created multiple tour-related business ventures. He has built two highly successful, well-know Latin American tour companies during this time including Latour in the early 80s; and later the LTD Travel Group featuring Latin Tour Dimensions; both enterprises were designed as progressive business models, always at the leading edge of evolutionary dynamic that brought about the emergence of Central and south America as a leader in worldwide tourism.