Name: Noelani Schilling-Wheeler
Age: 30
Position: Director of sales and marketing, Oahu Visitors Bureau
First job: Tourism market research, UH
Favorite pastimes: Hiking, cultural events

Seeking a 'Net gain for OVB

Noelani Schilling-Wheeler will be putting together a World Wide Web site as part of the Oahu Visitors Bureau's push to get tourists to see all of Oahu.

"I would like to have it ready in the next couple of months, but I want to take time to have quality information," Schilling-Wheeler said.

She has more than six years of travel marketing experience, most recently as a publishers representative at Media Matters, handling media sales for regional and national publications.

She also worked for the Schiller Group as a media buyer and for the Royal Hawaiian Hotel as a guest service agent and market researcher.

Schilling-Wheeler has a master's degree in organization/quality management from Hawaii Pacific University and bachelor's degrees in marketing and tourism management from the University of Hawaii.

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By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin