James Robinson III died March 18 at a hospital in Roslyn, N.Y. He was 88.
WTTC is saddened to listen to of the loss of life of one among our Founding Members and the primary WTTC Chair, James Robinson III, the previous Chairman and CEO of American Specific.
“Our ideas are along with his household presently.
Within the late Nineteen Eighties a bunch of business Chairs and CEOs, led by James Robinson, got here to the realisation that, though Journey & Tourism was the most important sector on the planet and an enormous supplier of jobs, it was not appreciated globally.
James performed a vital function in establishing WTTC as the worldwide voice of the Journey & Tourism’s non-public sector.”
James D. Robinson III served as Chairman & CEO of the American Specific Firm for roughly 16 years. He additionally turned a director of The Coca-Cola Firm in 1975. He was a common companion and co-founder of RRE Ventures, a non-public data expertise enterprise funding agency, alongside along with his son, James D. Robinson IV, a enterprise capitalist, and a classmate of his son from Harvard Enterprise Faculty, Stuart J. Ellman. Robinson was additionally a president of J.D. Robinson, Inc., a strategic consulting agency. He was beforehand a long-time Director and Chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb, and of Violy, Byorum & Companions, which operated in South America.
Robinson additionally served on the Boards of Administrators of PrimeRevenue and was honorary chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Most cancers Middle. Robinson was a member of the Enterprise Council and the Council on Overseas Relations, and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Establishment and World Journey & Tourism Council, of which he was a co-founder. In earlier years, he served as co-chairman of the Enterprise Roundtable and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Commerce Coverage and Negotiations. He was a member of the worldwide senior advisory board at Jefferies Group.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Community the place she is the Editor-in Chief. She can also be accountable for the day by day operation and the monetary coverage. She holds a Bachelor’s diploma in Tourism Enterprise Administration from the Technical College of Athens and a Grasp in Enterprise Administration (MBA) from the College of Wales.
She has a few years of each tutorial and industrial expertise throughout the journey business. She has written/edited quite a few articles in varied tourism magazines.
