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Monday December 1st, 2008 |
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Job.travel Becomes Senior Partner of Cornell Center for Hospitality Research |
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Job.travel, the hospitality industry's targeted, premium employment and referral website, has become a senior partner of the Cornell University Center for Hospitality Research. The job.travel site was founded in 2007 by Michael S. Egan, a graduate of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and chairman of Certified Vacations, a wholesale travel firm. |
'The senior partnership of job.travel helps the Center for Hospitality Research expand its mission of sharing top-level research findings with the hospitality industry,' said Egan. 'I'm glad to be able to support this important global research enterprise from my alma mater.' As a senior partner, job.travel will sponsor a center research project.
Egan has long served on the advisory board for the School of Hotel Administration. As senior partner, he also joins the center's advisory board. His career embraces a large span of the hospitality industryhospitality industry, including transforming Alamo into one of the foremost car-rental agencies and also being a principal in Nantucket Nectars before its sale to Ocean Spray. Egan also held various administration positions at Yale University and taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
'Michael Egan's senior partnership with the center extends our reach further into the online travel sector of the hospitality industry,' said Joseph D. Strodel, Jr., director of corporate relations. 'His interest in our research projects is an extension of the work he has done through the years to improve the hospitality industry's knowledge base. His creation of job.travel is an example of his ability to analyze the industry's future trends.'
Job.travel focuses solely on efficiently matching qualified job seekers with employers in the travel and hospitality industry. With the ability to quickly search candidates and job opportunities from handheld, mobile devices or desktop computers, job.travel is designed to be easy-to-use. Job.travel is complimentary for job seekers and cost effective for employers. Currently in its last phase of development, job.travel is scheduled to launch in April 2008. Please visit http://www.job.travel/ for more information and updates on job.travel news.
About the Cornell School of Hotel Administration
The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration is shaping the global knowledge base for hospitality management through leadership in education, research and industry advancement. The school provides management instruction in the full range of hospitality disciplines, educating the next generation of leaders in the world's largest industry. Founded in 1922 as the nation's first collegiate course of study in hospitality management, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration is recognized as the world leader in its field. For more information, visit www.hotelschool.cornell.edu.
About eCornell
eCornell, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cornell University, provides many of the world's leading organizations with online, asynchronous professional and executive development in the areas of strategy, leadership and management development, human resources, financial management and hospitality management. Its proven course development model and instructor-led course delivery provide for engaging, rigorous and interactive learning. The company has delivered over 70,000 courses to students in 180 countries. For more information, visit www.ecornell.com.
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Contact Information:
Fax: 607 255-8749
Phone: 607 255-4919
The Office of Executive Education, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University; 149 Statler Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853-6902, U.S.A.
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With 60 full-time teaching faculty, the Cornell Hotel School has the world's largest group of scholars focused on hospitality service-oriented management. Many large global hospitality companies are actively involved with our faculty for executive education and training, as well as research and consulting. As a result, the Hotel School is the hospitality industry's "think tank." |
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