Houston tourism head steps down
January 3, 2007
After weathering an embarrassing scandal this summer, and intense political pressure to step down over the past six months, Gerard J. “Jordy” Tollett, executive director of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), has announced his retirement.
In July, local T.V. station KPRC aired a segment showing Tollett drinking during more than one lunch, and then driving away from a Midtown restaurant. In the wake of ensuing scandal, Tollett took a month’s leave of absence, and Mayor Bill White made a request that the CVB’s board of directors begin looking for a successor.
Tollett, whose contract expires in February, was asked to submit an application to the board, so that he might be considered for his job along with other candidates. On December 29, he announced his resignation instead.
Tollett, who has led the bureau since 1998, will be retained as a consultant through 2007.
Source: Houston Chronicle/McClatchy-Tribune Business News
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