Former ICCA president Christian Mutschlechner has received the association’s highest honour, the Moises Schuster Award, for outstanding service to the industry. This comes only days after being Inducted into the Convention Industry Council’s Hall of Leaders.
This award is named after one of the founding fathers of ICCA, a small group of travel agents who in 1963 set up the association to share knowledge and business leads relating to international association meetings.
Outgoing ICCA president Leigh Harry presented the award at the gala dinner of the 49th ICCA Congress in Hyderabad, India. He said: “Beyond being well known, Christian has provided tremendous guidance and support to many of you. Beyond that, he has shared his deepest and most valuable secrets of marketing and sales success with any ICCA member who has ever asked him, provided this was done politely, of course, since courtesy and politeness is one of his defining features.
“Christian has lectured to students, mentored young meetings industry professionals, and shared his thoughts and business philosophy with any journalist who had the foresight to ask.”
“He is much respected and liked by the second-toughest audience in the world – international association meeting planners; and, most importantly, he is held in enormous affection by the very toughest audience – his own staff. A staff who are here in Hyderabad in large numbers, as they inevitably are at every ICCA Congress.”
