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EuroCHRIE Spring Board Meeting

The EuroCHRIE governance met in Amsterdam for their traditional spring Board meeting. In the absence of EuroCHRIE President Olgun Cicek, Vice-President Jouni Ahonen chaired the event. Also present were Secretary Paul Jackson, Treasurer Herve Fournier, Director of Education Rai Shacklock, Director of Networking Susan Fournier, Director of Marketing Robert Wetterauer, Director of Industry Relations Othmar Mueller, Area Consultants Liz Ineson, Hilary Murphy, Risto Karamavuo, Richard Ginioux, Jan Meyerhof as well as the I-CHRIE President Bill Samenfink. http://www.chrie.org/

The Board of Directors always meets where the annual conference takes place in order to discuss the final arrangements with the conference organizers and to inspect the venues. EuroCHRIE 2010 will be held from 25th – 28th October 2010 in downtown Amsterdam at the Movenpick Hotel. The central theme is ‘Passion for Hospitality Excellence’. The conference will be hosted by Stenden International Hospitality Management and Saxion Hospitality Business School. Stenden and Saxion are Dutch universities of applied sciences located in Leeuwarden and Deventer.

In addition to the actual meeting and the tour of the conference venue in Amsterdam, the EuroCHRIE directors travelled to both Leeuwarden and Deventer to visit the campuses of both institutions. In Leeuwarden, the group stayed on campus at the Stenden University Hotel, which is operated by students. Board members were also invited to participate to a seminar organized by the School of Graduate Studies with the guru of “Mind Mapping” Tony Buzan. At Saxion, Jan Meyerhof, Frederiek Slijkoord and Trea van der Vecht (Conference Project Manager) detailed the conference programme with the latest up-dates in regards to key note speakers, abstract submissions and various deadlines. http://www.stenden.com/ http://www.saxion.edu/

At the Board meeting, the bid for the 2011 conference presented by the American College of Management and Technology in Dubrovnik, Croatia, was accepted unanimously. ACMT was established in 1997 as a joint venture with Rochester Institute of Technology, the American university located in up-state New York. The board was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm shown by ACMT President Don Hudspeth and RIT Director of the School of Hospitality Francis Domoy who described the various venues in Dubrovnik, the pearl of the Adriatic. http://www.acmt.hr/ http://www.rit.edu/

The board also vouched its full support to the candidacy of Susan Fournier for the election to the Vice-Presidency of I-CHRIE. The elections will take place in April-May and if elected, she will preside in 2011 over the leading association of global hospitality educators totalling 1500 members

The meeting concluded with a walking guided tour of downtown Amsterdam and a canal cruise with great food and incredible scenery. Definitely a great venue for the annual EuroCHRIE conference. http://www.eurochrie2010.nl/

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