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Suntec Singapore Makes Scholarship Awards to UNLV Students
By Hil Anderson, senior editor
Singapore – Six students from Singapore
attended a major industry conference in
Australia in May thanks to scholarship
grants from Suntec Singapore.
Suntec made its first awards from
the Rilla & Warren J. Buckley Meetings
Industry Scholarship Fund to a half
dozen students from the Singapore
branch of University of Nevada, Las
Vegas (UNLV). The money paid their
way to the 6th Asia-Pacific (Apac-CHRIE)
conference sponsored by the Council
on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional
Education, and THE-ICE International
Panel of Experts Forum 2008, sponsored by
The International Centre of Excellence
in Tourism & Hospitality Education. The
co-located events took place May 21-24 in
Perth, Australia.
Pieter Idenburg, CEO of Suntec
Singapore, said the awards were made to
students pursuing careers in the hospitality
and MICE industries (meetings, incentives,
conventions and exhibitions). The students
selected were all working toward a double
major in hotel administration and MICE
and events planning.
“We are proud to set this milestone
and we believe this contribution will give
the development of Singapore’s MICE
industry a nudge by identifying new talent
that will contribute to and develop the
market,” Idenburg said.
As part of the award, the six winners
will be involved in the coming year in the
planning and management of the 2009
Apac-CHRIE conference to be held in
Singapore.
The Buckley scholarship fund was
launched in December 2007 to honor
Warren Buckley, the former CEO of
Suntec Singapore.
Reach Pieter Idenburg at +65 6337
2888 or pieter.idenburg@suntecsingapore.
com; UNLV Singapore Dean Andy
Nazarechuk at +65 6332 9538 or andy.
nazarechuk@unlv.edu
Change in Management at TSEA
By Hil Anderson, senior editor
Chicago, IL – The Trade Show Exhibitors
Association (TSEA) named consultant
Margit Weisgal as its new executive
director, replacing
Stephen Schuldenfrei,
whom the association
said was retiring
after three years as
its president. Arthur
Veale, chairman of the
TSEA board, said that
hiring Weisgal was the
first step in “a new
strategic program to
better serve members.”
Weisgal, currently president of
Margit Weisgal
Sextant Communications in the Baltimore
area, received TSEA’s Distinguished
Service Award in 2007. After the
announcement was made on April 24,
Weisgal told Trade Show Executive, “I am
by nature a marketer. We want to grow
the association and go in some different
strategic directions.”
Weisgal said she would have more to
say in the near future about an action plan
for TSEA, which was forced to lay off a
number of its Chicago staff earlier this
month. [ See article “TSEA Membership
Woes Force Layoffs,” in The Vault at
www.tradeshowexecutive.com]
TSEA was formed about 40 years
ago as a voice for exhibit and event
marketing professionals. TSEA has about
1,000 members.The association’s highestprofile
service is the Certified Manager of
Exhibits (CME) program. The association
also offers webinars to assist exhibitors
in getting the best marketing results from
their trade show.
TSEA also sponsors the TS² trade
show, which is owned by National Trade
Productions and will run July 28-31 at
the Pennsylvania Convention Center in
Philadelphia. The show has been on a
growth curve of 10% to 15% annually
since NTP acquired it. The show is
expected to draw about 2,500 attendees
and span about 40,000 net square feet
of exhibit space. It will offer over 70
educational sessions.
Reach Margit Weisgal at (240)
472-4420 or mbweisgal@tsea.org; Arthur
Veale at (312) 842-8732 or arthur.veale@
amx.com
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