Karen Schaler Travel Expert & Spokesperson
Karen Schaler is a three-time Emmy award-winning national TV host, correspondent and anchor, and the creator and host of the trademarked TRAVEL THERAPY TV segments featuring the top trips to take based on what you’re going through in life. Karen’s Travel Therapy TV segments are featured on top ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and CW stations airing internationally and across America. Some of the places you can find Karen’s Travel Therapy TV segments include on WABC-TV in New York City, seen during Good Morning America Weekend, Live with Kelly & Ryan, and Rachael Ray and on Celebrity Page TV.
Karen has also written four movies for Netflix, Hallmark, and Lifetime, inspired by her Travel Therapy trips, including the Netflix sensation A Christmas Prince that had two sequels and Hallmark’s beloved Christmas Camp. Karen has also written five romantic comedy novels and has a new novel coming out each year where traveling to amazing, uplifting, and life changing places is a key theme.
Karen Schaler is a sought after top lifestyle and travel expert for live TV interviews on NBC’s TODAY, Inside Edition, Fox & Friends, Good Morning America, Fox News, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, ABC News Now, and dozens of other top market network and cable affiliates across the country.
Karen also specializing in Satellite Media Tours (SMT), spokesperson work, and public speaking.
As a top lifestyle and travel expert for satellite media tours, Karen has been featured in more than 300 satellite media interviews.
Karen Schaler is a consummate professional who delivers for our viewers and listeners and the brands of our Fortune 500 clients. We’ve produced several very successful satellite media tours with this engaging and knowledgeable travel expert. Can wait to work on the next project with our favorite ‘Travel Therapist.
Karen Schaler was a great fit as the keynote speaker for our celebration of National Travel & Tourism Week luncheon. Her presentation was dynamic, energetic and enthusiastic and she really seemed to connect with the audience. You can tell by how she presents herself that she is passionate about what she does and is truly in the business of touching lives through travel. Our members found her engaging and were able connect with her “Travel Therapy” message on many levels.
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.
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!
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!
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.
TRAVEL THERAPY WITH KAREN SCHALER TOP TRAVEL SHOW
After hosting ABC’s national travel show Karen launched her own trademarked TRAVEL THERAPY TV segments that were first featured on WPIX-TV, the CW Network flagship in New York City in WPIX-TV’s award-winning morning news and primetime news, and on the nationally syndicated lifestyle and wellness Dr. Steve Show. Karen’s Travel Therapy TV segments were also featured in airports, on AOL, Amazon, and Huffington Post.
Karen’s empowering TRAVEL THERAPY TV segments, featuring top trips to take based on what you’re going through in life, are inspired by her groundbreaking travel books, TRAVEL THERAPY: Where Do You Need to Go?.
From being a TV correspondent embedded with ground troops in Bosnia and also embedded a combat Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan, to hosting a national travel show, and writing Christmas movies for Netflix, Hallmark and Lifetime, and novels, Karen lives by the question, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
Karen is 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. In her public speaking, Karen shares secrets of what it takes to re-boot your life and achieve a successful “Career Makeover” to follow your passion and live the life you were meant to live.
KAREN SCHALER TOP KEYNOTE & MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
Having traveled to more than 68 countries and as the author of the empowering book Travel Therapy: Where do you need to go?, Karen’s “Travel Therapy” speech is one of her most popular highlighting how to pick the best trips based on what you’re going through in life. Whether you’re stressed at work, going through a breakup or looking for romance, Karen shows how “Travel Therapy” can help you find your way and how you can score the best travel deals!
As a true multi-media award winning TV talent, some of Karen’s career highlights include working as a Host/Correspondent for an ABC national travel show, a Correspondent for CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and an Anchor/Correspondent for NBC Boston, FOX Dallas, CBS & ABC Phoenix.
Karen’s publishing credits include: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, Travel+Leisure, Town & Country, Elite Traveler, US Airways, abcnews.com, nydailynews.com and Huffington Post. The creator and managing editor of www.traveltherapytrips.com, Karen is very social media savvy and actively involved in cross promoting any work she does on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, etc.
KAREN SCHALER SCREENWRITER & AUTHOR
In 2017, Karen’s first feature film she wrote, the Netflix original sensation A Christmas Prince premiered and was quickly followed by three more movies for Hallmark and Lifetime where she wrote Hallmark’s Christmas Camp and Lifetimes Every Day is Christmas, starring Toni Braxton and Rediscovering Christmas.
At this same time Karen also landed a three book publishing deal with Harper Collins writing more feel-good, uplifting content with her novels inspired by Karen’s travels around the world. The novels, Christmas Camp, Christmas Camp Wedding, Finding Christmas, Christmas Ever After and her latest in 2021, A Royal Christmas Fairy Tale, have gotten rave reviews and have been featured in media outlets like Publishers Weekly, Forbes, and Parade to name just a few.
Karen was born in Washington State, attending high school and college in California. Living in New York City, Los Angeles, and Scottsdale, Arizona, Karen says her “home” now is wherever she puts her suitcase.
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