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Admimistrative Support for ACTE Europe Now Handled by Brussels-Based
GIC; Berlin, Germany—As part of an ambitious expansion plan, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) has recently hired a professional association management firm and is in the process of hiring a European director for the recently opened new ACTE Europe headquarters. "Simply put, the time for ACTE Europe was right," said Earl Foster, president of ACTE, in a speech delivered at ACTE Global Berlin, the organization’s annual international conference. "Europeans now make up 23% of ACTE—a significant proportion of our global membership. Our four-year plan calls for ambitious expansion throughout the continent in 1998, a process that is more appropriately supervised from Europe that from 5,000 miles and six time zones away." The new European office is located in Brussels, where GIC, ACTE’s newly-signed assocation management firm, is also based. GIC will report directly to Nancy Holtzman, ACTE’s new Executive Director. A search for a full-time director is now underway, Foster added, with the new hire slated to begin after the first of the year. "The ACTE Europe director will work closely with GIC," Foster said. "But most importantly, he or she will oversee educational programming, special events, member services and outreach to future members." The ACTE Europe director will report to the Executive Director, Nancy Holtzman. The Association of Corporate Travel Executives is a non-profit professional organization comprised of corporate practitioners of travel management techniques and suppliers of business travel services. ACTE was formed in 1987 expressly to educate, promote, protect and advance the interests of its members as well as the interests of the corporate travel industry as a whole. There are currently 1,671 members in 22 countries. Email [email protected]. # # #
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