New chair for AWTE
Debbee Dale has become the new chair of the Association of Women Travel Executives (AWTE).
Dale, of Debbee Dale Development, takes over from Barbro McAusland of Barbro McAusland Associates, who held the chair for two years.
Dale was previously vice chair of the association.
A new Board of Directors was announced at the association’s 2015 AGM hosted by Hill Dickinson in the City of London yesterday.
The Board comprises: vice chair Jayne Peirce, secretary Susan Byrne, finance director Andrea Clayton, membership director Alison Jarvis, events directors Tracy Sharp and Simone Roche, PR director Yolanda Stewart, web/comms directors Sarah Clayton Turner and Lindsay Garvey Jones, partnership and project director Kylie Mather, and benevolent chair Aphrodite Burton.
"All directors are keen to get their teeth into their roles and help to take the association from strength to strength," said AWTE.
Pictured here is Debbee Dale with Jayne Peirce.
A chair’s farewell lunch for McAusland will be held at the House of Lords on May 12.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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