European Cities Marketing to announce new Executive Committee and Board Members

Bettina Bunge, Ignasi de Delas and Dieter Hardt-Stremayr present at ECM General Assembly in Turin

At the General Assembly of European Cities Marketing held in Turin on June 2015, Board Members, Treasurer, Vice-President for Meetings Industry and President were elected by ECM members.

Ignasi de Delas (Barcelona) was re-elected as the Association's President for a duration of 2 years. The General Assembly also appointed Bettina Bunge (Dresden) as Vice-President dedicated to the Meetings Industry and Philippe Vignon (Geneva) as Treasurer.

The newly elected board members are as follows: Ozgul Ozkan Yavuz (Istanbul), Petra Stusek (Ljubljana), Bente Bratland Holm (Oslo) and Nora Dolanska (Prague).

Dieter Hardt-Stremayr pursues his role as Vice-President dedicated to Tourism. Eduard-Pieter Oud (Amsterdam), Gerry Lennon (Belfast), Pier Paolo Mariotti (Bolzano), Erwin Van de Wiele (Ghent), Francois Gaillard (Lyon) and Goran Pavlovic (Opatija) continue their mandates as ECM Board Members.

Current ECM Board:

• Ignasi de Delas, President (Deputy general manager, Turisme de Barcelona)
• Bettina Bunge, Vice-President for Meeting Industry (Managing director, Dresden Marketing GmbH)
• Dieter Hardt-Stremayr, Vice-President (Managing Director, Graz Tourist Office)
• Philippe Vignon, Treasurer (General Manager, Geneve Tourisme & Congres)
• Eduard-Pieter Oud (COO, Amsterdam Marketing)
• Gerry Lennon (CEO, Visit Belfast)
• Pier Paolo Mariotti (Meeting Manager, EURAC Convention Centre Bolzano)
• Erwin Van de Wiele (CEO, Ghent Tourist Office)
• Ozgul Ozkan Yavuz (General Manager, Istanbul Convention & Visitors Bureau)
• Petra Stusek (CEO, Ljubljana Tourism)
• Francois Gaillard (CEO, Lyon Tourism and Conventions)
• Goran Pavlovic (Head, Opatija Convention and Incentive Bureau)
• Bente Bratland Holm (CEO, VisitOSLO)
• Nora Dolanska (CEO, Prague City Tourism)

 "This role is a great honour and a privilege; I am delighted that members renewed their confidence by re-electing me as President. Main challenges for our new Board is to keep on adapting the association to the needs of its members. Our first initiative is to create and develop new Knowledge Groups (City Marketing, Digital Destinations ed) as well as partnering with other associations to keep strengthening the importance of city tourism in Europe" said freshly re-elected ECM President, Ignasi de Delas.

About her election, Bettina Bunge new ECM Vice-President for Meetings Industry said "I am very thrilled to be the new Vice-President for Meeting Industry of ECM. I will do my best to represent ECM in the Meetings Industry sector and serve the interests of European Convention Bureaux (benchmarking, business opportunities, education, networking...). To me, European Cities Marketing is like a family where members from different backgrounds meet and share about their successes and failures. Sharing is what makes the ECM family grow."