Couple Embarks on a Crowdsourced Road Trip

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This Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S. kicks off the start of the summer travel season. You might have a trip or two meticulously planned and carefully entered into your Google Calendar for the summer vacation months. But what if your travel destinations were crowdsourced — partially dictated by someone else?

A New York couple is ready to hit the road, depending on the whims of family, friends and random people in a crowdsourced road trip.

Meet John Ellis and Laura Preston. They call themselves "The Democratic Travelers." Akin to their democratic nickname, the couple is spending a year driving across the United States and stopping at destinations that people suggest and vote for on John's and Laura's "The Democratic Travelers" website. Read more...

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Three travel buyers have been appointed as new board members of ITM.

Carol Neil, from Nomura International, Price Waterhouse Coopers’ Will Hasler (pictured) and Victoria Anderson from Pfizer, have been added to the institute’s board.

ITM held an open nominations process with candidates then interviewed by a panel comprising ITM chairman Nicola Lomas, ITM chief executive Simone Buckley and incoming chairman Sarah Makings.

Lomas said: “We had such a high level and calibre of candidates applying. The interest in the role has clearly come from the success the association has seen to date and I think people really want to play a part in making ITM even more successful in the future.

“Simone and I are delighted to welcome the three successful candidates to the board as this just reinforces how bright the future is for this association.”

There have been no depatures from the current ITM board as a result of these new appointments.

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