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Dominique Dashwood, a fi nal year student at Bournemouth University, has been awarded the fi rst Vanessa Cotton Scholarship launched in memory of Vanessa our previous non-executive chair and true industry stalwart. Dominique was hosted at the recent MPI EMEC Conference in Budapest. Set up by MPI UK & Ireland Chapter and supported by Reed Travel Exhibitions and Excel the scholarship allows an outstanding student to attend the conference each year. Well done Dominique!
Just A Drop Founder awarded OBE As a long-term advocate of sustainable travel,
Reed Travel Exhibitions’ Fiona Jeffery who is World Travel Market Chairman has been appointed an Offi cer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in Queen Elizabeth II New Year’s Honours list.
Fiona was awarded the OBE for her services to the travel and tourism industry during her 26 years at WTM, the leading global event for the travel industry.
In 1998, Fiona launched travel industry water aid charity Just a Drop which aims to reduce child mortality caused by unsafe water. The charity has undertaken more than 92 water aid projects and helped more than 1.5 million children and their families in 29 countries.
The IBTM Events Portfolio has supported Just A Drop for many years through initiatives at the events, including helping fund a project through donations via the CEO Summit at EIBTM. All exhibitors at the events have the option to make a donation to Just A Drop when booking their stand.
In addition, IBTM Events are making a donation to Just A Drop for every survey completed for their IBTM Global Research Study.
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Fionas achievements also include creating World Responsible Tourism Day in 2008. The 2011 New Year’s Honours list was chosen based on the UK’s Prime Minister
David Cameron’s Big Society initiative, which is focused on people making a real difference to communities through volunteering, fundraising, social action and philanthropy.
“I was genuinely stunned but it’s a
great honour and I’ve received lots of wonderful emails and texts over the last week,” Fiona said. “The best thing is being able to share it with so many colleagues both at Reed Exhibitions and within the travel industry who have all played their part over the last 26 years and also the many people who have also latterly helped support and grow Just a Drop.”
The SITE Foundation and MPI Foundation have just released the fi ndings of a
joint study into the convergence of
meetings and incentive travel.
The study asked participants to comment on whether their
respective roles as either an incentive travel programme
planner or meeting planner was changing or potentially overlapping.
Key fi ndings were that more than a third said their personal involvement in either area had increased and 60% said that they expected this to increase in the future.
The main reasons for this were tied to the economic environment with 52% stating that budget was one of the main drivers for this trend and 47% indicating that it was due to public perception.
For more info go to
www.justadrop.com
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The full results of the study can be found at
www.siteglobal.com and
www.mpifoundation.org
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