ABOUT TRAVEL THERAPY®
What is TRAVEL THERAPY®
Travel Therapy was created and trademarked by three-time Emmy award-winning national TV host and correspondent, Karen Schaler, a passionate and prolific globetrotter who has traveled to more than 68 countries in search of life-changing travel experiences to share with her viewers, listeners, and readers.
Schaler says Travel Therapy is about inspiring and empowering people to pick the trips they need to take based on what they’re going through in life, using travel as their “therapy”. So whether you’re stressed out at work, going through a breakup, looking for romance, or need to reinvent yourself, you can use Travel Therapy to help you live a happier, healthier life!
Who is Travel Expert Karen Schaler?
Karen Schaler is three-time Emmy award winning journalist, screenwriter, author, and the creator and host of Travel Therapy TV featuring the most inspiring and empowering trips to take based on what you’re going through in life, inspired by her book, TRAVEL THERAPY: Where Do You Need to Go?
Travel Therapy airs nationally and internationally on top TV networks and is on ABC in New York City during Good Morning America Weekend, Live with Kelly and Ryan and Rachael Ray.
Having traveled to more than 68 countries Karen is a sought-after travel and lifestyle expert appearing on the NBC’s TODAY show, Inside Edition, ABC, CNN, Daily Mail TV, Celebrity Page TV, Fox and Friends, and MSNBC, as well as on radio, podcasts and local TV station.
One of Karen’s newest Travel Therapy experiences is her trademarked Christmas Camps at top resorts and destinations around the world that NBC’s TODAY show came to and featured last Christmas!
Christmas Camp provided a unique and thoughtfully designed platform for expanding our customer base, especially during the traditionally slower, early weeks of December. The connection between movie, book and author created a truly magical experience for all – younger and older adults; those traveling as a couple, or for a girlfriends’ getaway.
I cannot begin to enumerate the ways Karen Schaler impacted our inaugural RomaDrama Live event! Her enthusiasm, passion and fan engagement brought Christmas Camp fun and excitement to the heart of our July show. Our guests simply loved Karen’s Christmas Camp experience. In addition to the on-site excitement, Karen generated a great deal of TV, print, and online media coverage. Karen’s magnetic personality and passion for creating uplifting, memorable programming makes her the perfect partner! We look forward to working with her on upcoming events!
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With Karen’s Christmas Camps she’s bringing the Hallmark original Christmas Camp movie she wrote and her Christmas Camp books to life, creating an uplifting, inspiring, and empowering holiday experience that includes Christmas themed spa and wellness treatments and activities.
Fun fact, Karen also wrote the Netflix hit, A Christmas Prince that had two sequels and four other holiday movies for Hallmark and Lifetime in the last three years. Her newest royal romance just came out October 5, 2021, called A ROYAL CHRISTMAS FAIRY TALE where she’s also writing the movie.
In addition to her Christmas stories Karen is also working on a summer beach read romantic comedy novel and movie and two feature films.
Schaler launched her one-of-a-kind TRAVEL THERAPY TV segments after spending several years hosting ABC’s one-hour national travel show Travel Now and writing her book, Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go? ( Seal Press). You can also find Schaler’s TRAVEL THERAPY TV segments on her website www.traveltherapytrips.com, on YouTube www.youtube.com/traveltherapytv and on social media.
With more than a decade of national and international TV reporting, hosting, anchoring, producing and writing experience, Schaler is also a sought after lifestyle and travel expert, spokesperson and keynote speaker and regularly appears on top network television and radio shows including: NBC’s Today, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Inside Edition, Fox’s America’s News HQ, ABC News Now, MSNBC’s Countdown, CNN, Martha Stewart Living Radio and the BBC.
What makes Schaler a unique and valued travel and lifestyle expert and journalist is her diversity. From working as a TV war correspondent in Bosnia and Afghanistan, to crossing the globe as a lifestyle host and correspondent for ABC’s national travel show Travel Now, Schaler is an energetic, passionate and above all respected and trusted award-winning TV and multi-media personality and influencer.
In 2014, Schaler, was featured in Marlo Thomas’s book IT AIN’T OVER featuring sixty women who have successfully reinvented their lives to follow their life’s passion.
Schaler’s TV background includes working as an on-air television correspondent for CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and has worked as an anchor/correspondent at WHDH-TV in Boston, KDFW in Dallas and the CBS & ABC affiliates in Phoenix.
Besides her television work Schaler’s 900+ publishing credits include The New Yorker, Travel+Leisure, Town & Country, The Boston Globe, NY Daily News, Abcnews.com, AOL, Huffington Post, Delta Sky, US Airways Magazine, Islands, Hemispheres, etc.
Schaler’s passion is traveling and experiencing unique cultures, people, places and adventures.
Karen is one the most professional, creative, dedicated and efficient TV journalists we’ve ever had the pleasure of hosting in Aruba. We so admired her passion for uncovering and sharing our island’s hidden gems. It’s refreshing to work with someone who looks beyond our beautiful beaches to discover the real Aruba. The resulting TV segments on our romance, adventure and culinary offerings were stunning, and we continue to use her online videos in our marketing efforts. We look forward to her next visit to our One happy island.
It was not only because of Karen’s phenomenal experience and proven success in broadcast journalism that we wanted her to visit our resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, but also her obvious passion for travel and sharing the experiences with her audience. It was clear she cared deeply not only about the quality of work she was producing, but also the people she was working with, the site she was covering and her viewers. She continuously went from one end of the resort to the next in order to cover all aspects of the location, keeping in mind the audience’s varying interests. Karen is a truly authentic and lovely person to work with, and the results from her time spent and TV segment were better than we could have wished for.
I have worked with Karen Schaler on several Travel Therapy TV segments about the province of New Brunswick, Canada, and plan to do so again. Karen’s authentic approach to crafting an engaging editorial depiction of a destination and her commitment to quality are evident from start to finish. It is a bonus that, while being professional, organized and efficient, she takes the time to engage each person she encounters showing her genuine passion for what she does. Kudos, Karen!
From visiting some of the most luxurious resorts and spas in the world, to whitewater rafting in Bali, chasing icebergs in Newfoundland, sailing the British Virgin Islands, hiking and skiing in Switzerland, hot air ballooning in Turkey, cooking classes in France, horseback riding in New Zealand, cave tubing in Belize, dog sledding and ice hiking in the Canadian Rockies, surfing in Hawaii, skiing in Austria, rappelling in Puerto Rico, snorkeling in Australia and biking in Denmark, Schaler is constantly searching for her next TRAVEL THERAPY TRIP.
Schaler credits her honest, hip and heartfelt writing style and her wanderlust spirit to her background as a television broadcast journalist. She was the first TV journalist ever embedded with troops in Bosnia where she reported live and executive produced, wrote and reported in a half-hour documentary.
In 2007, Schaler was also the first journalist ever embedded with a combat Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan where she reported daily and executive produced, wrote and reported in a one-hour documentary.
Growing up outside of Seattle, Washington, Schaler has lived in ten different states and currently is based in New York City. Constantly globetrotting around the world, Schaler says her home now, “is wherever I put my suitcase.”
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KAREN’S MOVIES AND BOOKS
Karen Schaler has written four feel-good, uplifting original movies for Netflix, Lifetime, and Hallmark, and five romantic comedy novels all inspired by Karen’s Travel Therapy travels around the world.
Karen’s Book: Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go?
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