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EuroCHRIE Board in Dubrovnik

The Board of Directors always meets at the location where the annual conference takes place in order to discuss the final arrangements with the conference organizers and to inspect the venues. The 29th EuroCHRIE Conference will be held from 19th – 22nd October, 2011 at the Excelsior Hotel, a beautiful 5-star property right on the Adriatic sea where the opening ceremony, keynote speeches and the break-out sessions will take place. On Saturday, the paper presentations will be held on Campus at ACMT, while the gala dinner will take place at the spectacular fortress Revelin.

Hotel Excelsior

The theme of this year's conference is "Tourism and Hospitality, Drivers of Transition". This year's hosts are the American College of Management and Technology, Dubrovnik (www.acmt.hr) and the Rochester Institute of Technology (www.rit.edu). Francis Domoy, Chair Emeritus – Constellation Commons for Global Learning at RIT in Rochester, New York was the initiator of the joint venture which led to opening ACMT in Dubrovnik in 1997. He underlined the importance of global networking and is very happy that his institution can welcome hospitality educators for this upcoming conference. Students will be working on the conference in a unique Event Management class. The Croatia based students will be participating in distance learning from RIT while attending ACMT and the 15 students enrolled in the course in the USA will get to travel to Dubrovnik for the conference, no doubt a great hands-on experience. ACMT President and Dean Don Hudspeth praised Irena Ljubisic’s excellent job as conference coordinator, as well as Jennifer Matic who so far has reviewed 137 papers with her scientific committee. http://www.eurochrie2011.hr/ irena@acmt.hr

President Jouni Ahonen and Emeritus Chair Francis Domoy

Hilary Murphy presented the 2012 EuroCHRIE conference which will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland on 25-27th October 2012 focusing on corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. Robert Wetterauer gave an overview of his bid to host the 2013 conference in Freiburg, Germany which will showcase the Angell campus and the International University of cooperative education.

In addition to the actual meeting and the tour of the conference venue in Dubrovnik, the EuroCHRIE board members participated in 3 panel discussions with ACMT students on the following themes: Hospitality and tourism education - study abroad; Tourism as a vehicle for intercultural dialogue and cross-cultural understanding; The importance of alumni associations-networking, placement and job hunting. The students were very keen to discuss these various topics. Having chosen to study in English in an American College in Croatia, they have already made a step towards internationalizing their education and several of them are contemplating the option to study abroad in the US at RIT or elsewhere in Europe.

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