Mary Curnock Cook is leaving the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) at the end of August after seven years as director.
She is planning to take a course at the London Business School, leading to a masters degree.
But she has not ruled out returning to the industry once the year-long course is finished.
She is the third key figure to leave in the past month. John Walker, deputy director, and Maureen Heffernan, head of the careers initiative Leisure Careers UK, have also gone
The BII is looking for a chief executive to take the helm.
She is planning to take a course at the London Business School, leading to a masters degree.
But she has not ruled out returning to the industry once the year-long course is finished.
She is the third key figure to leave in the past month. John Walker, deputy director, and Maureen Heffernan, head of the careers initiative Leisure Careers UK, have also gone
The BII is looking for a chief executive to take the helm.
