Job.travel Becomes Senior Partner of Cornell Center for Hospitality Research
ITHACA, NY, March 31, 2008. 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 Center for Hospitality Research
A unit of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, The Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) sponsors research designed to improve practices in the hospitality industry. Under the lead of the center's 71 corporate affiliates, experienced scholars work closely with business executives to discover new insights into strategic, managerial and operating practices. The center also publishes the award-winning hospitality journal, the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (formerly the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly). To learn more about center and its projects, visit www.chr.cornell.edu.
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