Chris Shepler to Serve on ABA Marketplace Advisory Committee
CHRIS SHEPLER TO SERVE ON ABA MARKETPLACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON -Chris Shepler, Vice President, Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry, St. Ignace MI has been appointed to the American Bus Association’s (ABA) 2010 Marketplace Advisory Committee (MAC). MAC is the strategic group charged with improving the business and networking opportunities for all attendees at the premier group travel show in North America.
The Capital Region Marketplace 2010 is slated for Jan. 15-19, 2010, at the Gaylord National on the Potomac River just outside of DC in Maryland. The host community will be comprised of Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia tourism partners.
MAC member responsibilities throughout the nearly three-year planning process for the show include offering input on enhancing Marketplace to ensure it boosts the business value to attendees, elevates its networking opportunities to delegates in new ways to forge new business connections, and offers fresh educational seminars reflecting the top-of-mind business issues facing the motorcoach, tour and travel industries each year. Committee members are selected for their leadership, their enthusiasm and their commitment – both to ABA and the wide variety of regions they represent.
“I look forward to working diligently toward another thriving and memorable Marketplace on behalf of ABA and each member,” Shepler said.
“ABA is a member-driven organization and relies on volunteers such as Chris to help us in the planning process to help make each Marketplace better and better,” said ABA President and CEO Peter Pantuso. “And being a MAC member has the added business benefit of raising the visibility of each committee member’s company or destination as they act as an ambassador for it.”
MAC also strives to reflect the diversity of the ABA membership, the committee and the ABA staff in working closely together throughout the year to provide industry vision and leadership to carry on another successful Marketplace event.