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November 20, 2008

 
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AWT Sutton & Associates has been planning Incentives, Meetings, and Travel for over 30 years.

Sutton & Associates provides the skills, expertise and resources to plan and implement customized conventions, travel incentives, meetings, and provide personalized consultative services. It has been determined that organizations are finding it easier, both financially and time wise, to outsource the planning of their meetings and events. By selecting Sutton & Associates, organizations have more time to focus on the business at hand, their employees, customers, and/or members.

Sutton & Associates’ clients are located around the country. With the help of technology, Sutton & Associates is able to provide highly personalized service and attention to detail outside of their geographic location.

Sutton & Associates is located at 2225 Taylor Road in Montgomery, Alabama. The hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Philosophy
 

It is the goal of Sutton & Associates to understand and meet the challenges of each client so they enjoy better results.

 

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Mission Statement

 

Sutton & Associates is a group of creative, solution-oriented professionals with the skills, expertise, and resources to plan and implement customized conventions, travel incentives, meetings, and provide personalized consultative services.

 

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Why Sutton & Associates

 

Any ordinary travel agency can "sell" you a "cruise" or a land based program. Not every company understands the difference between booking a cruise and planning a successful incentive, meeting or convention. Sutton & Associates has successfully planned statewide conventions for a variety of associations across the Southeast including: Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia, and incentives for companies across the United States. The services offered by Sutton & Associates far exceed the services that a traditional travel agency provides.

Sutton & Associates offers a wide variety of services. These services may include site consultation & selection, promotion & marketing, program management, and/or on-site services.

Partner with Sutton & Associates and realize the benefits and services for planners and corporations. Sutton & Associates has the expertise to "partner" with its clients in creating memorable, and successful incentives, meetings and/or conventions. Sutton & Associate's clients appreciate the opportunity to focus more on their business and content of their program, while the team at Sutton & Associates focuses on the logistics and details.

Choose wisely:

It takes years to build a reputation, and only seconds to lose it. Partner with Sutton & Associates and benefit from the commitment of a professional team of individuals, dedicated to servicing your organization and program.

The team at Sutton & Associates understands the importance of incentives and the difference between a vacation, and a well-orchestrated incentive program. With Sutton & Associates, your organization receives numerous benefits including:

  • Expertise and leverage in negotiating contracts
  • Central source to help with the logistics
  • On-site professional, uniformed escorts
  • Customization
  • Flexibility
  • Responsive team
  • Solution-oriented
  • Professional, skilled and experienced personnel
  • World-wide, well connected resources
  • Quality

Sutton & Associates understands the important relationship between you and your client. Everything they do protects this valuable relationship.

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History

 

Sutton & Associates is a division of AWT, a company that has provided excellent travel service since 1971. Conceived in 1994, Sutton & Associates was renamed from AWT's Incentive Concepts and Corporate Meetings. Sutton & Associates is co-owned by Liz Sadie Sutton and Bill Sutton.

 

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Awards

 
1993 COSBE Small Business of the Year (Chamber of Commerce)
1994-1996 Winner's Circle - Carnival Cruise Lines
1995 Coveted Revnes Award -Number One Cruise Show in USA presented by Cruise Lines International Association
1996 Gemsetter Award -Agency of the Year (USA) presented by GEM
1997-1999 Winner's Circle - Carnival Cruise Lines
1994-1998 Society for Incentive Travel Executives University Attendee
1998-1999 American Express selected Liz Sutton among 30,000 travel agents as their spokesperson for the travel industry in national ads
1998 Selected to chair and plan the #1 Industry Meeting in the Travel Industry for the Institute of Certified Travel Agents, ICTA National Forum XVII November 1998, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1999 Selected Most Powerful Women in Travel by Travel Agent Magazine
1999 Delegate Motivation and Premium Show, Chicago
2000-2003 Carnival Cruise Line’s Winner’s Circle
2000 Delegate to International Travel Motivation Show
2001 Speaker for Institute of Certified Travel Agents National Forum
2002 Delegate to International Travel Motivation Show
2003 Travel & Leisure named the owner, Liz Sutton, top 125 Super Agents in the country
2002 Speaker for Institute of Certified Travel Agents National Forum
2003 - 2007 Travel & Leisure Magazine’s Top 125 Travel Agents
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Advisory Board

 
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line Radisson Hotels Worldwide
Walt Disney World Attractions Travel Counselor Magazine
Travel & Leisure Magazine Travel Agent Magazine
American Express  
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Memberships

 
Meeting Planners International National Home Builders Association
American Society of Travel Agents Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce
Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) Alabama Association of REALTORS
Vacation.com National Consortium Montgomery Committee of 100
The Travel Institute National REALTORS® Association
Alabama Homebuilders Alabama Council of Association Executives
Alabama Retail Association
Rotary International
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Speaker

 

Liz Sutton has been in the travel industry for 27 years and speaking for the last 13 years.

Liz has served as the spokesperson for American Express by appearing in a national full-page ad campaign for all leading travel magazines across the country. She is recognized as a national leadership and motivational speaker for American Express and other industries. She has been delighting audiences with her highly charged presentation, Discover the P.O.W.E.R. Within. She also has presentations titled, Attitude; Incentives; and the Etiquette of Shaking Hands.

Liz's clients include a wide range of national associations and organizations throughout the United States, Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, schools, churches, non-profit organizations and small businesses.

Liz's professional associations include the Institute of Certified Travel Agents, Alabama Speakers Association, Meeting Planners International, Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce, Rotary International, Alabama Home Builders Association, Partners in Catholic Education and the American Express Advisory Board.

Liz was named one of the Most Powerful Women in Travel by Travel Agent Magazine, and one of the top 125 Agents in the country by Travel & Leisure Magazine. She was selected by the National Organization of Jaycees as one of the FIVE Most Outstanding Jaycees in America.

"Liz spoke at our Spring conference last week and did an exceptional job. The members of our organization filled out evaluation forms and they ranked her performance as excellent . Her humor, interaction with group, and topic were just wonderful. We will definitely keep her name on file for future events."

Linda Page
Exec Assistant CIO

"Liz has a great presence and delivery! For us old timers…her enthusiasm made it worthwhile to hear it again. She had some fresh approaches."

Stan Barnes, Marketing Director,
Home Builders Association of Greater 6R

"Dynamic! An enthusiastic speaker - a must for any organization striving to energize its employees. Her POWER presentation is inspirational and on target for today's life challenges. High energy, great message, relevant."

Colonel Mike Outten,
Director, Financial Management,
Headquarters, Air University

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Testimonials

"When I refer people to you, they call and thank me, often with flowers... It makes you feel great to know you can refer someone and be assured that they will receive first class treatment."

Greg Calhoun
President
Calhoun Foods

"The calmness, expertise, and consistency with which your staff handled themselves, definitely something you have mastered... Every single time, changes were handled quickly and we felt secure that it would be handled because that
security (trust) was established from the very beginning."

Beverly Myers
Marketing Event Coordinator
Alabama Power


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