Jo Lloyd has quit her job as regional director for EMEA for the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) after 14 months.
She is moving to the Gulf to take up at the post of global sales manager for Qatar Airways, based in Doha.
Ms Lloyd, who has worked in the travel industry for 20 years, joined ACTE in June, 2006 from UK travel management company Reed and Mackay where she was director of supplier negotiations and head of account management.
During her time with ACTE, she moved the organisation into new areas of her region including Italy, Russia, the Middle East and Nigeria.
At ACTE's global education conference in Miami in May, the organisation decided to split the EMEA region into two: Europe and the Middle East and Africa, each with its own director.
Ms Lloyd told BTE that the timing was right for her to leave with the job being split into two.
ACTE has also recently appointed Jennifer Fitzgerald as its new regional manager for Europe, replacing Megan Lenfant who has left to take up a similar position with the National Business Travel Association.
ACTE has also appointed Christine Dunton Tinnus, its senior adviser special projects, as acting director for three months while a permanent appointment is made.
Ms Dunton Tinnus is based in Stuttgart, Germany and runs her owns company DuntonTinnus Consulting.
Paris enjoys boom in hotel profitability
Chain hotels in Paris enjoyed a "dramatic jump" in profits in June, according to the latest HotStats survey by TRI Hospitality Consulting.
Income per available room before fixed charges soared by 51.4% to €106 in the French capital.
The improvement was due both to a 5.1% drop in payroll costs and to a sharp rise in revenue per available room (revPAR) of 35.1% to €242.48.
Jonathan Langston, managing director of TRI, said: "Parisian hoteliers were able to really push rate for the first time this year, buoyed by very strong business demand, in part thanks to more than 150,000 trade visitors to the bi-annual Paris Air Show."
Moscow remains Europe's most profitable city for hoteliers with an "enormous" leap in room rates of 34.4%.
“Parisian hoteliers may have enjoyed huge revPAR and profit growth, but the much lower cost base that exists in Moscow continues to enable its hoteliers to convert more revenue into profit,” Mr Langston said.
TRI said that London enjoyed a good June with revPAR up by 12.8% to £103.12 which included an 11.7% rise in room rate and a 0.9% rise in occupancy.
However other European cities are faring less well. Germans cities including Berlin, Hamburg and Munich did less well this June than in June 2006 when the country was staging the World Cup.
Berlin suffered a "dramatic fall" in room rate of 35.1% down to €145.15 although along with Hamburg and Munich, there was an increase in occupancy.
But Hamburg along with Prague and Budapest experienced a double digit fall in profits in the six months to June 2007.
In the Hungarian capital, profit per available room fell by 28.5% to €30.87, less than a quarter of the Moscow profit, even though it had the same level of occupancy of 65.9%.