Results of Tourism Committee meeting which was held on June 11th, 2008:
1. Attendees agreed Committee should be a new platform for sharing ideas and setting goals and achieving them: please send me your ideas and goals till Tuesday 19th, 12:00 p.m. if you have not done so already.
2. Co-operation with Delta Airlines – thanks to Mr. Schenk it will be possible to put AmCham promotional materials on the Delta Air Lines board (starting with the CR 2008 brochure on August 1st, tourist guide with offers from AmCham members could follow)
3. Co-operation with AmChams in EU and USA – to use their membership networks, agreements with them have to be confirmed to start cooperation, ask them for best practices in tourism sector
4. To use contacts AmCham has for finding out planned congresses and events
5. To invite Jade Sebek of Czechtourism or somebody from the City of Prague for next meeting – please send me your ideas who you think would be useful to invite
6. Committee members will meet regularly every third Wednesday of month, 10:00-11:30.
Agenda prepared for last meeting which we didn’t have time to go through but can discuss next time:
Discussion on how AmCham could help members from tourism sector and plan of activities in this area:
1. Promotion of tourism sector in connection with direct flights of Delta from USA
2. Promotion of Malá Strana – hotels and restaurants at Malá Strana as evening destination
3. Tour guide (4 areas: conferences and congress spaces, accommodation, dining, leisure time), promotion of AmCham members, distribution and advertisement
4. Co-operation with other chambers, associations
5. Potential speakers for roundtables on actual topics