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Questex Hospitality + Travel has promoted John
McMahon to executive vice president and Marilyn McHugh to vice
president, global events.
McMahon assumes responsibility for the Questex portfolio of eMedia and eLearning products serving the
hospitality and travel sector, the International Meetings Review
Network, Travel Agent University as well as the group's Travel
Agent, Luxury Travel Advisor and Hotel Management magazines.
McHugh's responsibility includes the company's
worldwide portfolio of Hotel Investment, Hotel Management, Luxury
Travel and Global Meeting & Incentive Travel events, including the
IHIF series, Luxury Travel series, Incentive Travel Exchange
series and HOTEC Americas series.
“John and Marilyn have
an exceptionally strong level of experience in hospitality and
travel industry marketing, media and events. We are proud to
recognize their accomplishments with these well-deserved
promotions,” said Kerry Gumas, President and CEO of Questex
Media Group LLC. “Each has had a distinguished career and we are
pleased to be in the position to have two such accomplished
executives leading this division.”
McMahon has more than
20 years of industry experience in management and sales. He has
been the driving force for many successful products and event
launches throughout his travel media career including Luxury
Travel Advisor and Luxury Hotelier magazine as well as Luxury
Travel Expo, HotelWorld Expo & Conference and Incentive Travel
Exchange. He has also led the group's eMedia development and sales
initiatives developing the company's eLearning and loyalty
programs into a blockbuster business.
Prior to joining
Questex, McMahon spent 10 years at Reed Travel Group and also
served as publisher of the Official Hotel Guide and the OAG
Business products. He is also a member of numerous
hotel and travel advisory boards, foundations and serves on the
Board of Directors for the Greater New York Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation.
McHugh brings more than a quarter century of
hospitality experience to her position, having earlier served
Wyndham Worldwide and its predecessors, Cendant Corporation and
Hospitality Franchise Systems, for 18 years in key corporate and
brand marketing roles.
As Wyndham Hotel Group’s vice
president of B2B Marketing & Communications, she created a global
business-to-business marketing plan and established long-term
sales strategies for the company’s 12 lodging brands. She also
managed global sales, operations, b2b marketing, trade shows and
training and communications.
Among her accomplishments
there, McHugh developed and launched an online directory for
meeting planners, championed a social media marketing campaign for
travel management companies, implemented an online specialist
program for travel agents and led automation of the
request-for-proposal process.
Prior to joining Questex,
McHugh was brand director for UBM Live, where she led a business
unit responsible for organizing several of the world’s largest
cruise industry exhibitions and conferences, managing the
marketing team, setting strategies and implementing social media
initiatives to drive brand revenue.
McHugh is a magna cum
laude graduate of Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, N.J.,
where she received a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and
currently serves as an adjunct professor of Hospitality. She
earned the Certified Hotel Administration designation from the
American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute.
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