 Owners Gina and Cary Martin is the president and co-founder of Little Rock Tours, Inc. Cary and his wife, Gina, started the company in response to the demand for a quality daily sightseeing tour around the city. Requests for bus service led to the purchase of more mini-buses, full-sized motor coaches, vans, and limousines. Little Rock Tours also serves as a full-service receptive operator and offers a one-of-a-kind Murder Mystery Dinner Theater inside a haunted museum and a dinner musical called the Little Rockin’ Supper Club. Little Rock Tours was also honored to be nominated and selected for membership in the Arkansas Small Business Hall of Fame 2007.
Prior to Little Rock Tours, Cary Martin was the primary news anchor at KATV Little Rock, the local ABC affiliate. He was recognized for excellence with two regional Emmy awards for investigative reporting and best news anchor. Cary was also nominated for a national Emmy for investigative reporting.
Cary went to college at The University of Tennessee at Martin, and was selected as one of the top 15 broadcasting students in the country, which won him an internship position at the networks in New York City with the International Radio and Television Society.
Cary started his broadcasting career at WBBJ in Jackson, Tennessee. He then moved on to anchor and report for WAFF in Huntsville, Alabama, KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, and then to Columbus, Ohio to work as a weekend anchor at WCMH. His final stop before Little Rock was in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked for three years as an anchor and reporter at WKRC. Along the way, Cary picked up numerous awards and Emmy nominations.
is Vice President. Before going full time
she was the Director of eGovernment Relations for the
Information Network of Arkansas. Gina also serves on the
New Horizons Scholarship Committee, which provides
annual full-paid scholarships to students pursuing
careers in technology. Prior Little Rock Tours, Gina
reported for KATV in Little Rock and served as co-host
for the 2003 Jerry Lewis Telethon on FOX. An
award-winning journalist who spent most of her
television career in Columbus, Ohio, Gina also worked as
an TV anchor/reporter for The Ohio News Network and
WBNS-TV and hosted her own travel segment called Ohio
Getaways. Gina has also reported live for CNN on a
number of occasions. She spent two years as a main
anchor in Mansfield, Ohio, and worked in Ohio Public
Television and Radio, a division of NPR.
Gina earned a B.S. in Journalism from Ohio
University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism,
graduating Summa Cum Laude. For the past several years,
she’s been involved with many charitable organizations
doing television work for United Cerebral Palsy, the
Children’s Miracle Network, and Easter Seals. On a local
level, Gina has worked events for the American Lung
Association Lung Run, the Museum of Discovery, and Star
Fest 2000. |
