Ginger Guthrie

Seamless Event Planning and Exceptional Travel Services.

“Ginger was a pleasure to deal with and kept things running seamlessly throughout our stay. Her ideas, attention to detail, and hard work were exceptional."

Kate M, Managing Director

It All Began with City Codes.

In the mid-80s, a detour into the travel industry and landing at the American Airlines Sabre Training Academy at DFW put my life on a major trajectory. Travel was sexy and the new frontier of incentive travel and meetings industry was taking off. I spent more than half my time traveling the world for work and loved every minute of it. In 1989, I took an offer to move to beautiful San Francisco and joined a boutique incentive travel agency. Soon, I was creating worldwide meetings and incentives for Apple Computer and other companies in tech and finance. After a couple of more agency leaps, I pivoted and started my own corporate consulting career, designing events and leading production teams from San Francisco to Syndey. 

Taking a break from being on the road in the early 2000s, I cofounded a DMC in Lake Tahoe, Sierra Event Company, and we produced the First Annual Google Ski Trip in Squaw Valley (back then, Google was less than 2,000 employees). After a few years, I left the mountains to return to the Bay Area and opened a DMC in Napa Valley in 2006. There was only one other DMC located in Napa at the time. Destination Design Group is still my baby after almost 20 years.

All roads have led me to today and two more opportunities that I am loving:

  • Corporate event consulting for clients who need a seasoned professional who can manage projects from start to finish or step in and execute in any phase of the timeline.  

  • Using my insider knowledge of Napa/Sonoma wine country to create custom itineraries for clients coming to the valley for personal reasons, from celebrating birthdays and anniversaries to wine buying trips.