Peter Stilphen, ECC is  the CEO of Coral Sands Travel, America's Host Agency and World Cruising Society in LaBelle, Florida. He was the founder and past President of the host organization known as PATH. He currently writes, in his own provocative style, a newsletter that is distributed to members of the travel industry.

Peter worked in the hospitality industry prior to entering the travel profession in 1996. As a Certified Hotel Administrator, he served in the positions of General Manager and Controller for independent hotels in Massachusetts, Michigan, Florida and The Bahamas for over 30 years. He was also founder and President of one of Florida's largest condominium/homeowner management firms, having sold his interests to a public company in 1998. Mr Stilphen also owned and operated two accounting practices in Massachusetts and Florida.

He is passionate about increasing the standards and training levels of travel agents which is reflected in his founding of STARS and his blog writings. He created this website to further advance his committment to exposing the bad Host Agency's, primarily the MLM/Card Mill agencies.