REED TRAVEL EXHIBITIONS PROMOTE AND RECRUIT IN EXPANSION DRIVE

Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) have launched a major restructuring of their senior management in an expansion drive aimed to reinforce their position as market leaders.

Directors Fiona Jeffery, Matt Thompson and Debbie Jackson have been promoted to Group Exhibition Directors with extra responsibilities, including researching for new events to add to the company's extensive portfolio.

Alix Blumsom is appointed Customer Relationship Management Director and this key role will involve heavy focus on developing RTE's website and building up awareness of their travel portal.

Sam Goonetillake comes in as RTE Sales Director, armed with 15 years of experience ranging over Forte Hotels, The Financial Times, IATA and Wembley Event Management.

Miranda Beevor replaces Alix Blumsom as Relationship Marketing Manager. "These changes are introduced because of recent expansion and to maximise the potential for immediate and future growth," said managing director Tom Nutley.

"With this strengthened and increased management team, I have no doubt that RTE will continue to enhance its standing in the travel industry as the world's leading travel industry exhibition organiser."

As Marketing & Business Development Director & UK Events, Fiona Jeffery's role will mean working closely with Nutley in projecting the brand and developing new business projects. She already heads up RTE's flagship event, World Travel Market and British Travel Trade Fair.

Matt Thompson's switch to Group Leisure Director sees him responsible for the Arabian Travel Market, Mediterranean Travel Fair, CIS Travel Market, International Golf Travel Market plus PATA Travel Mart, based in Singapore, reporting directly to him. He will be RTE's representative co-ordinating with Top Resa (France).

Debbie Jackson becomes Group MICE Director. This means liaison with the Meetings, Incentives, Conference, Exhibitions industry as well as leading the Reed teams which currently runs EIBTM (Geneva) and AIME (Melbourne).

Notes

1. Reed Travel Exhibitions is part of The Reed Exhibition Companies Ltd who manage over 440 events in 29 countries, serving 49 different industries in 11 key sectors with some 156,000 exhibiting companies and over 9 million visitors.

2. As a member of the Reed Elsevier plc group, the world-leading business and information provider, REC is unique in offering integrated market access programmes covering exhibitions, trade publications, direct marketing and the Internet. Reed Elsevier's business titles are closely linked with REC's exhibition activities across both geographic and industrial markets. It also has a growing portfolio of electronic publishing and information services, including LEXIS-NEXIS, the world's leading provider of on-line information services and management tools.

3. Reed Travel Exhibitions organise 11 events worldwide, including World Travel Market, Arabian Travel Market, C.I.S. Travel Market, EIBTM, British Travel Trade Fair, Asia Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo (AIME), PATATravel Mart, International Golf Travel Market, Top Resa, the Mediterranean Travel Fair and ICCA Exhibition, in association with the ICCA Congress.