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TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPOTLIGHTS ACTE X NEW ORLEANS Washington, DC - The Association of Corporate Travel Executives will celebrate its ten year anniversary at the upcoming Annual Members Conference to be held in New Orleans, May 31-June 3, 1998. The conference, themed "Best Practices and All That Jazz" will return to the site of ACTE’s first annual members conference, the New Orleans Hilton & Towers. To commemorate its ten year anniversary, ACTE will launch an exciting year-long celebration including the issuance of a commemorative issue of the ACTE Quarterly and special recognition throughout the year of various members who have made significant contributions to the association during the past ten years. The ACTE X planning committee is currently developing an impressive list of industry experts to conduct interactive educational sessions and deliver keynote presentations at the conference. The educational sessions will cover such relevant topics as supplier distribution strategies; measuring return on investments of software purchases; corporate intranets; expense report automation; contracting for services and products; the changing role of travel agencies and re-engineering the T&E process. The conference will feature a technology track, as well as a professional skills track. In addition, an influential line-up of keynote speakers have been confirmed. They include: ¨ Gordon Bethune, Chairman & CEO, Continental Airlines ¨ Jurgen Bartel, Chairman & CEO, Westin Hotels ¨ William Lobeck, President/Automotive Group, Republic Industries ¨ Richard Wallman, Chief Financial Officer & SVP, AlliedSignal, Inc. "If you’re a travel or financial manager, purchasing executive or industry supplier, you can’t afford to miss this year’s conference," remarked David Hillman of Deloitte & Touche Consulting and co-chair of ACTE X New Orleans. "We are developing an incredible program to provide insight into the issue most important to corporate travel professionals from all segments of the industry." Special networking events at the conference include an opening reception at the Louisiana Children’s Museum, a cocktail reception at the breathtaking Plimsoll Club and the Annual Members Gala to be held at a New Orleans landmark, Mardi Gras World. Registration materials will be available in early March. For more information or to receive registration materials, call 1.800.375.ACTE. 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 1988 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. # # #
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