Roger Dow at the IPW trade show in 2017. Photo Credit: Johanna Jainchill
Roger Dow, who as CEO of U.S. Travel oversaw the conversion of a tepid industry association into a lobbying powerhouse, announced he will be stepping down in July 2022.
Dow will be remembered for wrangling a fractious group of travel sectors with competing interests hotels, cruise lines, destinations, airlines, airports, theme parks, tour operators, rental car companies, payment systems, intermediaries into a unified organization that put aside their differences to line up behind the common goal of increasing travel to and within the United States
Together with Loews Hotel chairman Jonathan Tisch, Dow helped engineer the merging of the former U.S. Travel Industry Association and Tisch s Travel Business Roundtable to create U.S. Travel in 2008.
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Industry celebrates Global Meetings Industry Day
Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) is taking place today, 8 April. Find out how you can get involved with GMID at
GMID is a celebration of the meetings industry and the economic benefit that it brings, taking place across the world. The day is organised by Meetings Mean Business, a coalition of meetings industry eventprofs that started in Canada, but now has a global reach.
This year’s GMID theme is Meet Safe, recognising the industry’s top priority of operating meetings and events with health and safety top-of-mind.
There are a number of in-person and virtual meet-ups happening for GMID 2021. For North American readers, a collection of these events can be viewed here on the MMB website.