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Mission Coincides With Resumption of Cleveland-London Nonstop Flights
CLEVELAND, April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL), Cleveland Mayor Jane L. Campbell, Council Majority Leader Martin Sweeney, the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland this evening will launch a three-day investment and tourism mission to London with an eye toward increasing trade and tourism between Greater Cleveland and the United Kingdom.
Mayor Campbell, Council Majority Leader Sweeney and Nene Foxhall, Continental Airlines vice president of state & civic affairs, will be joined by several local business leaders including Growth Association President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis E. Eckart, CVB President and Chief Executive Officer Dave Nolan, and Cleveland marketing, sales and tourism consultant Terry Uhl.
Also joining the mission are John Slater, Continental's senior sales director - Midwest region, Shirley D. Stineman, director of community affairs for The Plain Dealer, Constance Harper, executive vice president of The Call and Post Newspapers, and Richard Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Kaleidoscope Magazine Publishing. The three-day investment and tourism mission includes:
-- A working breakfast with executives of the British Airports Authority,
which manages London's Gatwick Airport;
-- A meeting with the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, His
Excellency William S. Farish;
-- A working lunch at the U.S. Embassy with VisitUSA, a U.K.- based tourism
group that encourages tourism between the U.K. and the United States.
Mayor Campbell will deliver the keynote address at the organization's
luncheon, where Dave Nolan also will speak;
-- A working breakfast with Joseph Bauer, vice president and general
counsel of Lubrizol, which...