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Puerto Rico General Meeting Miunutes

2010 EuroCHRIE - FEDERATION MEETING – General Members

Friday, 30 July 2009 – Flaminco A

9:00 – 10:00 am

2010 I-CHRIE Conference - San Juan, Puerto Rico

Present: , Jouni Ahonen, [JA,Chair of the meetings ] Rai Shacklock, [RS] Director of Education, Bill Samenfink,[ BS] President, International ICHRIE, Jan Meyerhof[JM] Area Consultant , Herve Fournier [HF] Treasurer, Susa Fournier [SF] Director of Networking and ICHRIE VP, Hilary Murphy[HM ] Area Consultant, Sandra Watson[SW] Director of Research, Risto Karmano [RK] Area Consultant

+10 members. Total 19 attendees

MINUTES

1. Welcome (Jouni Ahonen – Chair – President)

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JA welcomes everyone to the meeting. 19 members present.

JA recognizes the outstanding achievement of Rai Shacklock who will be the first European to be awarded the Meek Award at the I-CHRIE Award ceremony in Puerto Rico. Congratulations to RS from all present.

2. Apologies for Absence

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Olgun Cicek, Eleonore Vial, Robert Wetterauer, Paul Jackson, Othmar Mueller, Liz Ineson, Jane Sprowart, Richard Ginioux, Patrick Connor, Maureen Brooks, Eda Gürel, all are unable to attend and send their apology.

3. Minutes of the last EuroCHRIE General Meeting – Helsinki 2009

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JA asks the attendees to read through the minutes of the General Meeting in Helsinki.

Motion to approve the minutes: SF Second: Peter Jones (PJo)

The minutes are accepted unanimously.

Matter arising: PJo adds to point 11 that SW is co-editor of the JHTE and PJ is on the review board of the JHTR, and members having questions about these journals should be contacting them directly.

4. EuroCHRIE President Report (Olgun Cicek)

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OC was not able to attend, he submitted his report to the I-CHRIE board and we look forward to seeing him in Amsterdam.

5. Immediate Past President Report (Eleonore Vial)

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EV did a great job coordinating the election of the EuroCHRIE Vice President. Congratulations to Robert Wetterauer, new Vice-President.

EV also worked on the awards nominations for the Amsterdam conference. The board will review the nominees and make the final selection.

6. Vice President Report (Jouni Ahonen)

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JA has now been installed as EuroCHRIE President. JA states that the proceedings from Helsinki are now posted on-line: 850 pages are on-line and published with an ISBN number. JA thanks JM for the great organization of the board meeting in Holland with 3 venues visited : both schools and the Mövenpick Hotel in Amsterdam which will be the conference venue, an excellent location, near the train station.

JA gives out the executive summary of the I-CHRIE strategic plan from the Strategic Planning committee which he served on this past year. Being a federation of I-CHRIE we must follow the guidelines of the strategic plan of our organization. SF and RW will continue to work on the strategic planning committee this coming year.

7. Secretary Report (Paul Jackson)

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PJ is unable to attend. He did a great job with the minutes of the Board meeting in Amsterdam and has agreed to continue to serve as Secretary.

8. Treasurer's Report (Herve Fournier)

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HF states that he will continue to serve as Treasurer of the organization. Following a career change and no longer being in education, he will still remain a EuroCHRIE individual member as industry professional.

HF gives the details of the accounts. Currently 20'683.00 Euros are in the Swiss bank account. He gives an outline of the budget which will be presented at the General Members Meeting in Amsterdam.

9. Board of Directors' Reports and Area Consultants' Report:

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• 1. NETWORKING & CONFERENCES (Susan Fournier) SF explains that Risto Karmavuo will be appointed as Director of Networking, because of her new role as Vice President of I-CHRIE.

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  • 1. Last information on the conference in Amsterdam - October 2010 Jan Meyerhof (JM) informs about the progress of the Amsterdam conference. Paper reviewing is an issue as the process appears to be slow. JM will urge the Scientific committee to speed it up. More than 170 papers. 5 hotel schools in Holland will participate with their students. JM shows the PPT presentation and film which will be shown at the Awards Dinner. The keynote speakers are all confirmed. The website has to be up-dated and the dates changed in regards to paper submission.

  • 2. Dubrovnik 2011 - Francis Domoy (FD) from RIT Dubrovnik thanks JM and the board for the great welcome at the board meeting in Amsterdam. The theme of the Dubrovnik conference is Tourism and Hospitality: Drivers of Transition. This is very appropriate in view of the past developments in the Balkan area. A special effort will be made in showcasing students at the conference. Hotels are reserved with rates from 60 to 150 euros. All the conference venues are booked. 9 faculty members will attend the Amsterdam conference. FD will be seeking information from past organizers and Board members in regards to web-site design, sponsors, time-line for paper reviews and suggestions for guest speakers. Delegates from Eastern European countries should be able to attend this conference. The dates are not finalized but will be the last week of October 2011. PJo mentions that it will be 20th anniversary of EuroCHRIE which was founded in 1991 in Montreux, Switzerland and this should be recognized in Dubrovnik. PJo was the first President of the EuroCHRIE Federation.

  • 3. Further bids and/or interested Institutions - The Board has accepted and confirmed the bid of Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne to host the 2012 EuroCHRIE conference on 25-27 October 2012. The theme will be : Hospitality for a Better World. Emphasis will be put on sustainable development. Students will be involved in various projects. EHL will showcase its new facilities currently under construction. Several EuroCHRIE Swiss Events have brought together researchers from "César Ritz", Glion-Les Roches-Gruyere and EHL will make sure to associate the other Swiss schools to this event.

• 3. COMMUNICATION & MARKETING (Robert Wetterauer) - JA informs of the decision of the Board to no longer print hard copies of the newsletter. An E-newsletter will be published on-line 4 times a year. This will generate traffic on the web-site. All Schools should link with our site which is very well referenced with search engines. Steve Shacklock is doing a great job.

• 4. MEMBERSHIP (Patrick Connor) - We are currently at 151 members. Area consultant should be chasing-up new members and lapsed memberships.

• 5. INDUSTRY RELATIONS (Othmar Muller) - OM did an excellent job with the release of a DVD on hygiene and lining up potential key note speakers for Dubrovnik.

• 6. RESEARCH (Sandra Watson) - Director of Research is a new position in the organization and she has been meeting the Directors from the other federations. SW did a Research workshop in Helsinki. She standardized forms for evaluating papers in Amsterdam. This form will then be used each year. She also published guidelines for presentations once the paper is accepted with details on formatting slides. She helped increase the number of reviewers in Amsterdam. She will publish guidelines in regards to the paper review process and present this document in Amsterdam. She participated to the Swiss EuroCHRIE research event in February. A JHTE special edition will be coming out in Amsterdam. JHTM will also sponsor a prize in Amsterdam. She will also address the issue of publishing abstracts and papers on the website to draw the attention of the authors that if the paper is uploaded, it may limit their opportunity to have it published somewhere else. PJo states that all authors should agree to review papers, this in fairness to the reviewers and in order to increase their number.

• 7. EDUCATION (Rai Shacklock) - RS worked on the career academy session that she did here in Puerto Rico. She is working with Maureen Brookes on on-line open resources (download material for teaching).

• 8. AREA CONSULTANTS - All reports were submitted to the Chair.

10. New appointments of Board members

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Bill Samenfink is re-appointed as Director at Large. Congratulations to Bill for a great job as I-CHRIE President!

Risto Karmavuo is appointed as Director of Networking since SF has been elected I-CHRIE Vice President. Hilary Murphy is appointed by the Board as Director of Communication and Marketing since RW has been elected EuroCHRIE Vice President.

Following positions will be up for election next year: Vice President, Marketing, Membership, Networking, Research, Education.

11. New appointments of Area Consultants

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Interested members should contact JA

12. Awards Committee and awards nomination

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Award nominations will be reviewed in the Board Meeting.

13. Any other business

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None.

14. Close of Meeting

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JA closes the meeting at 10:00 am.

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