Reed back with meetings title

Reed Travel & Meetings Asia (RT&M) has overhauled its management as it is adding two travel trade titles - Travel Weekly Events (TWE) and Travel Weekly East China (TWEC)- to its portfolio. TWE will replace the defunct Meetings & Conventions Asia (M&C Asia) title - published for five years by Venture Asia Publications under licence from the Cahners Travel Group, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. The licence expired in January. RT&M publishing director Fiona Rankine, who set up Venture Asia as its executive director in the mid-90s, said it was better to build the Travel Week brand, which Reed owns internationally, rather than invest in one so closely associated with another company. Travel Weekly Events, a bi-monthly publication, has a controlled circulation of 15,200 and is targeting organisers of events, incentive programmes, conventions and exhibitions. The publication was launched on February 21 to coincide with the Asia Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo in Melbourne, organised by Reed Exhibition. In April, the company will launch the monthly Chinese-language TWEC, which will be distributed in Hong Kong, China and Macau. Reed has made two senior appointments as part of the launches: Ms Irene Chua as TWEC's associate publisher and Mr Chris Michaelidies as international sales director for RT&M. Ms Chua had worked on competing travel trade titles and was previously with I-Quest, while Mr Michaelidies' travel publishing experience included a stint on the now-defunct Travel News Asia in the mid-90s. He subsequently established the Chris Michaels International media representation business in Hong Kong. The appointments coincide with the departures of RT&M group publisher and business development director Phila Anne Tan, who is joining computer magazine publisher IDG early this month as business development manager, and RT&M regional sales director (Northeast Asia) Rachel Choy, who left to join the International Herald Tribune as regional sales manager. Ms Tan, who was at Reed for 11 months, said she had been in travel publishing for nine years, said she wanted to focus on another industry.

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