EMEA: Business travel trade organisation the GBTA has appointed Pauline Houston, SilverDoor’s SVP of business development, as the first chairperson of the GBTA WINiT EMEA Chapter.
The newly formed GBTA WINiT EMEA Chapter is an extension of WINiT – a non-profit organisation which provides support, training and advice to help guide career development within the business travel, meetings, events and exhibitions industries.
The EMEA Chapter will focus on building a community across Europe, the Middle East and Africa for women in the business travel industry.
As chairperson, Houston will oversee the vision and objectives of WINiT across EMEA, working alongside Catherine Logan, regional senior vice president, EMEA and APAC for GBTA.
Houston said: “I have been a long-standing admirer of the work of the GBTA WINiT programme and the valuable role it plays within the industry to advocate and guide positive change for so many of the people that work within it.
“As an industry body it has a responsibility as we all do, to continue to inform and deliver opportunities for all. Supporting the thousands of women who work within the industry is something I am incredibly passionate about and I look forward to working with the WINiT strategic advisory board to delivering those opportunities and valuable support to our colleagues and partners across EMEA,” she said.
