To the Ends of the Earth GETTING CLIENTS PLACES WHERE OTHERS FEAR TO TREAD FUELS THE SUCCESS OF AVIA INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL Matthew Forestieri aviainternational.com The folks at Avia International Travel have never been to most of the places they send their clients. And that’s okay because the firm—headquartered in The Woodlands near Houston—sends people to places most don’t want to go. Avia serves the travel needs of the oil, gas, and marine services industry. The firm moves not just executives, but the people who work on oil rigs and ships. Avia gets drillers, derrick hands, geologists, and engineers to some hard-to-reach places. A typical morning might include routing a Ukrainian rigger to Luanda, Angola; an Irish machinist to Port Harcourt, Nigeria; and a Saudi enginee

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