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Spotlight on Industry Partner Stéphanie Calla from La Maison d'Art! Posted on: by amada.anderson Spotlight on Industry Partner!   Introducing Stéphanie Calla from La Maison d'Art! info@lamaisondartny.com   What year did your business open? 2009.   Awards and Recognitions: TripAdvisor Award 2011 to 2015, Top 10 B&Bs in NYC Booking.com Award, Customer Award 2012 to 2015… Read More
Spotlight on NYC Tour Guide Oliver Grieb Posted on: by amada.anderson Meet our spotlight on NYC Tour Guide Mr. Oliver Grieb! Gidday and "Grüß Gott", my name is Oli, your fun, fitness oriented, energizing and certified NYC Sightseeing Guide. I am originally from Würzburg, Germany and have been traveling and working all over the world for more than 10 years.  … Read More
GANYC Represents NYC’s Tourism Industry at USTA’s Destination Capitol Hill 2016 Posted on: by michael.morgenthal GANYC was the only organization representing New York City tourism professionals and the NYC tourism industry as a whole at the US Travel Association’s (USTA) Destination Capitol Hill 2016 lobbying event in Washington, D.C. March 16-17. GANYC President Michael Dillinger and Lee Gelber, who serves… Read More
Congratulations to Lee Gelber from The Department of Defense! Posted on: by amada.anderson Our esteemed colleague and inaugural Guiding Spirit award winner Lee Gelber received the following congratulations from The Department of Defense:  "Attention: Guides Association of New York city   I would like to take a moment to congratulate Lee Gelber for receiving the… Read More
DESTINATION NEW YORK Episode #11 William Helmreich Posted on: by aaron.tabackman Join Destination New York Host and Member Aaron Tabackman as he interviews Professor William Helmreich, the 2015 GANYC Apple Award winner of "Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing" for his best-selling tome, "The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 miles in the City."  They have a free… Read More
Meet Marjorie Eliot, GANYC 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Posted on: by michael.morgenthal How to describe Marjorie Eliot’s weekly Jazz Parlor, which she hosts every Sunday from her living room at the historic 555 Edgecombe Avenue? It is part jazz concert, part poetry reading, part theatrical production, and part revival meeting. But what it is, most of all, is therapy. Eliot, who will… Read More
Spotlight on GANYC Member: Linda Sarrel Posted on: by amada.anderson Spotlight on GANYC Member: Linda Sarrel!   Linda is a licensed New York City sightseeing guide and the founder of Rent A New Yorker Tours.  She is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn.  She has lived in Manhattan for over 35 years. Join her on a tour and share… Read More
Spotlight on Industry Partner: Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum Posted on: by amada.anderson This weeks Spotlight on Industry Partner is Jason Sullivan from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum!    New York City’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex is an educational and cultural non-profit institution centered on the aircraft carrier Intrepid. The mission of… Read More
DESTINATION NEW YORK Episode #10 Justin Ferate, Part II Posted on: by aaron.tabackman Listen to part two of our interview with Justin Ferate.  Hear Mr. Ferate discuss the state of international visitors to New York City, the future of tour guiding in New York City and which New Yorkers, past and present he would dine with.  All very compelling commentary.     Read More
DESTINATION NEW YORK Episode #9 Justin Ferate Posted on: by aaron.tabackman Join Destination New York host and GANYC member Aaron Tabackman as he interviews several of last year's recipients of GANYC Apple Awards leading up to the next GANYC Apple Awards show on March 7th at Symphony Space.  First up is a two-part interview with the inaugural Apple Award winner of… Read More