ITM NE AND NW REGIONS MERGE
The ITM board has taken the decision to merge the North East and North West regions into a single "North" Region after the previous chair of the North East, Caroline Richardson, stood down towards the end of 2007. The new ITM North region will fall under the leadership of Jean Handley, previously NW Regional chair, who has served the association in this role for many years.
To support Jean there will remain a sub-committee based in the North East to co-ordinate activities with the main ITM North committee.
Since 2006 ITM has moved to centralise the education programme to day-time forums and virtual events and move the emphasis away from regional based evening education. Regions like the North West have found their activity is best undertaken in facilitating communication between the board and regional members, producing highly successful annual charity gala dinners and undertaking more social networking events with new hotel launches etc.
It is hoped that Jean and her team will bring the same thinking to those located in the North East of England.
