{"id":55923,"date":"2015-03-26T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d5b6c6690954326912fee43d89c8e773"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:52:06","slug":"news-story-culture-secretary-extends-term-of-board-member-of-visitbritain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55923","title":{"rendered":"News story: Culture Secretary extends term of Board Member of VisitBritain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>John Lindquist is a strategy consultant and adviser with extensive international experience in travel and tourism. At The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which he joined in 1974, he became a Partner in 1981 and Senior Partner and Managing Director in 1993 and a leader of the global travel and tourism practice.<\/p>\n<p>He became a Senior Adviser at BCG in 2004, specialising in international tourism development, and he currently combines this with his role as a Non-Executive Director at Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd (2007-), the Zurich-based global tour operator.<\/p>\n<p>He was first appointed as a Board Member of VisitBritain in 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sajid Javid has extended John Lindquist&#8217;s term of appointment by six months, to 14 September 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}