MEDIA CAREERS: Wall promoted as Wong leaves Business Traveller

<p>Mr Jonathan Wall has been promoted to associate publisher at </p><p>Business Traveller Asia-Pacific following the resignation of Georgina </p><p>Wong. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Mr Wall, an 11-year veteran of the travel consumer title, will continue </p><p>as editor of the publication. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Ms Wong, who has worked at Business Traveller for the past </p><p>six-and-a-half years, has quit for family reasons; she is pregnant and </p><p>preparing to take up the challenge of motherhood. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>She said she was leaving Business Traveller on a high note. The paid </p><p>circulation of the monthly, according to ABC, is 23,320 and Ms Wong told </p><p>MEDIA that she expects this figure to rise by five per cent in the near </p><p>future. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>In addition, she said that I-Quest Corporation has joined up as a title </p><p>sponsor of the magazine's ninth Annual Travel Awards. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>This is the first time that Business Traveller, whose target readership </p><p>is top-level executives, has opened up the awards to sponsorship. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>"We've developed the awards over a number years and we have waited until </p><p>we were satisfied that everything was in order before inviting a </p><p>sponsor," Ms Wong said. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The sponsorship gives the awards a greater degree of visibility as </p><p>I-Quest's business travel website, Worldroom.com, will run the Internet </p><p>balloting. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>"People can, therefore, choose to fill out printed questionnaires or the </p><p>online survey," she added. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>The survey behind the awards, now renamed Business Traveller/Worldroom </p><p>Annual Travel Awards 2000, will be conducted by Hong Kong-based market </p><p>research company Market Behaviour. </p><p><BR><BR> </p>