The BTN Group
inducted four people to its Hall of Fame Monday night:
- JP Carey (d. 1942), founder of the first national and
international limousine service. Carey
International president and CEO Gary Kessler inducted him.
- Barron Hilton, CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp. Senior director of intermediary group sales
Linda Hilton inducted him.
- Susan Lichtenstein, formerly global travel procurement director for Cisco. United Airlines SVP of worldwide sales Dave Hilfman inducted her.
- David Radcliffe, CEO of Hogg Robinson
Group. Travelport president and CEO Gordon Wilson inducted him.
The BTN Group
selected this group for their contributions in shaping today's business travel
landscape. Read
their bios here. They join 33 other Business Travel Hall of Fame members, all
of whom made indelible marks on the business travel industry.
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Scholarship Winners
At the event, Hilfman also presented the Business Travel Hall
of Fame Scholarship, sponsored by United, to Nelson Perez, a member of the class of 2019 in New York University's Jonathan M. Tisch Center for
Hospitality and Tourism. He's concentrating on tourism development.
The seventh annual ceremony at The St. Regis
Hotel New York brought together more than 250 of the travel
industry's leading executives.