IATO to conduct Managing Committee elections on April 26, 2014

The Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) has announced that their national Managing Committee elections will be held on April 26, 2014 at The Park, New Delhi. Announcing this at the luncheon meeting organised to honour Angli Dione Gomez, Miss Tourism International in New Delhi, Lally Mathews, Honorary Secretary, IATO said that notifications for the elections have been sent out on March 3, and Praveen Chugh will be the Returning Officer for the elections.  After receiving and withdrawal of nominations, there is only one member contesting for the highest post, that is IATO’s current President, Subhash Goyal. Rajesh Mudgill and Sarabjit Singh will contest for the post of Senior Vice President, and Arun Anand and Rajeev Kohli for the post of Vice President. Lally Mathews and Pronab Sarkar have filed their nominations for the post of Honorary Secretary. Amaresh Tiwari and Lajpat Rai will contest for the post of Honorary Treasurer. Atul Rai and Ravi Gosain will contest for the post of Honorary Joint Secretary. Harish Chopra, Raj Bajaj, Rajiv Mehra, Rajnish Kaistha, Ramesh Wattal, Ravinder Kumar, Sanjeev Joshi, T. Sriharan, Tony Marwah, and Vinay Tyagi, will contest for EC Member (Active), which are five posts. A Afzal, Amandeep Singh, N.S. Rathor, P Vijayasarathi, Sanjay Kaushik, Sunil Gupta, and Zia Siddiqui, are contesting for the three posts of EC Member (Allied). Paying tributes to Ram Kohli, the Founder President of IATO, who passed away recently, Subhash Goel, President, IATO announced the association’s decision to hold Kohli's commemorative annual lecture. The meeting also paid homage to the late Francis Wacziarg, Co-Founder, Neemrana Hotels.