Minneapolis (March 7, 2012) Meet Minneapolis President and CEO Melvin Tennant, CAE, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Travel Association. Tennant will be an at-large director serving from 2012 - 2014. He will officially start his new term at the spring board meeting on March 23, held in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Travel Association collaborates with everyone that uses travel to grow their business beyond what an individual can do. The Board of Directors oversees and governs the business of the association, votes on organization decisions and oversees the disbursement of monetary funds.

Tennant has been the president and CEO of Meet Minneapolis, Convention and Visitors Association, since 2008, and CEO of Meet Minneapolis software affiliate, iDSS, since 2007. Tennant has proved himself a leader in the travel industry with his current involvement on the boards of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Minneapolis Downtown Council, the Airport Foundation MSP and the Religious Conference Management Association (RCMA). He also has previous experience on the boards of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Center for Association Leadership, Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the MPI Foundation, and is a past chairman of the Destination Marketing Association International.

ABOUT MEET MINNEAPOLIS

Meet Minneapolis is a private, not-for-profit, member-based association. It actively promotes and sells the Minneapolis area as a destination for conventions and meetings, works to maximize the visitor experience and markets the city as a desirable tourist destination to maximize the economic benefit of the greater Minneapolis area.

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MEDIA CONTACT

Kristen Montag, media communication manager, 612.767.8038, kristenm@minneapolis.org, Minneapolis_PR on Twitter.

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