FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 3, 2005
Contact: Edmond McDavis III
(662) 241-7851

Executive director/CEO of Columbus CVB to speak at MUW

COLUMBUS, Miss. -- James Tsismanakis, the new executive director/CEO of the Columbus Convention & Visitors Bureau, will speak at the next Town & Tower Club luncheon scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 10.

The program will be held in Hogarth Dining Center on the campus of Mississippi University for Women at 11:30 a.m. Lunch will be served for $10.

Tsismanakis, a 15-year veteran in the hospitality industry, is a graduate of Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va., with a bachelor’s in business administration.

He has worked in various management, marketing and tourism positions during his career.

Tsismanakis plans to “bring new and exciting ideas to the tourism industry here in Columbus” through “more utilization of our special niches of historic destinations, antebellum and Victorian home tours, great shopping and antiquing.”

He will work closely with the Columbus Air Force Base, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority and MUW.

To make a reservation, contact Frances Jutman at (662) 329-6548 or email fjutman@cableone.net.