By Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News: IoH CEO joins global hospitality leaders at ICHRIE Conference, Washington.
Institute of Hospitality CEO, Robert Richardson FIH, will be part of a keynote session in the US capital, on 4 August 2022, at the Annual International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE)’s 2022 Summer Conference at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel.
The four-day conference runs from 3-6 August 2022, and is part of ICHRIE’s 75th-anniversary celebrations with Richardson scheduled in the keynote session, on Thursday 4 August 2022.
Entitled: ‘Improving the Image of the Hospitality & Tourism Brand’, Richardson will be speaking and networking alongside Roger Dow, President, US Travel Association, Liz Origuera, CEO, Pacific Asia Travel Association and many other leaders within international hospitality and tourism.
Institute of Hospitality CEO, Robert Richardson FIHIoH CEO Robert Richardson FIH explains: “Hospitality has no borders and I am honoured to have been asked to speak at the ICHRIE Summer Conference 2022 in the USA and promote the IoH and careers in hospitality. It is an enormous opportunity and one I intend to maximise. So, if any of our local USA IoH members or non-members, would like to meet me in Washington DC, please email me through the link below.”
Fran Brasseux, Executive Director, ICHRIE said: “In planning our 75th-anniversary celebration, and our first live annual conference in over two years, ICHRIE knew we needed to have the hospitality industry’s top leaders on our stage to bring out our attendees. Our board of directors came together to brainstorm the speaker invitation list, and Robert Richardson, FIH, CEO, Institute of Hospitality, was branded as the must-have voice of international tourism. As a global association of hospitality educators, we are honoured to have him with us in our opening industry session at the ICHRIE conference. We thank Robert for agreeing to share his post-pandemic knowledge and insights, which we will carry into our classrooms around the world in the fall.”
ICHRIE is a global and multi-cultural community of hospitality and tourism professionals dedicated to the pursuit, discovery, advancement, and sharing of knowledge and experiences, relevant to the hospitality and tourism industry and its future leaders. To read more about ICHRIE please see here.
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