{"id":1974,"date":"2024-09-23T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlg-testing.co.uk\/ioh\/?page_id=1974"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:43:30","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hlg-testing.co.uk\/ioh\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n    <div class=\"get_involved_parent full_width padding_bottom \">\n        <div class=\"fixed_width\">\n            <div class=\"left_side\">\n                <h3><\/h3>\n                <h2>Elevating hospitality professionals and standards worldwide<\/h2>\n                <div class=\"wysiwyg\">\n                    <p class=\"p1\">As the world&#8217;s largest professional body for hospitality, we are passionate about hospitality and proud to have supported thousands of professionals, at all levels, to become the best versions of themselves since 1938.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                <div 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<h3>Governed by a Board of Trustees, we live by and share clear values<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>inspirational, positive, ambitious, progressive, impartial, respectful, open, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>integrity, agile, connected, and experts in our industry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Link to Governance page<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Passionate about hospitality<\/h3>\n<p>Meet our team \u00a0&#8211; link to page?<\/p>\n<p>Vacancies &#8211; link to page?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Our distinguished history from 1938<\/h3>\n<p>Our history \u2013link to page?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Connecting and supporting our global network<\/h3>\n<p>Discover our global network (listed as worldwide) link to page?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Inspiring and nurturing future industry talent<\/h3>\n<p>Meet our Youth Council &#8211;\u00a0 link to page?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Honoring the legends of our industry<\/h3>\n<p>Hall of Fame \u2013 New 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