Nan Marchand Beauvois

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Senior Vice President, U.S. Travel Association

Nan Marchand Beauvois

Nan Marchand Beauvois is the U.S. Travel Association’s senior vice president of national councils, overseeing the National Council of State Tourism Directors, the Experience Network and the Destinations Council. Additionally, she serves as Managing Director of the Meetings Mean Business Coalition and she also manages the DMO CEO Roundtable. She is also general manager for U.S. Travel’s Educational Seminar for Tourism Organizations (ESTO).

Prior to joining U.S. Travel, Nan was the executive director of the Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau, where she worked to brand the city as a year-round business and leisure destination, beyond the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl, in the competitive Los Angeles market. She concurrently led an aggressive sales program for the city’s expanding convention center.

Prior to joining the DMO world, she spent 15 years at Universal Studios Hollywood, her last position being vice president of sales. Her successful career has been built on the personal tenets of creativity, passion and entrepreneurial thinking. She has lent her skills to industry associations and has served as a member of U.S. Travel’s IPW Planning Committee, the California Travel & Tourism Commission International Marketing Advisory Committee, the National Tour Associations Marketing Committee, the TTRA board, the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board Marketing Committee. She was also a long-term board member of CalTravel, where she served as chair in 2000-01.

Nan was recently recognized for the second year in a row as one of Successful Meetings “25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry”. Marchand Beauvois studied political science/international relations and romance languages at the University of California at Los Angeles and lives in Arlington with her husband and son.