NATCHEZ &045; In the coming weeks, those in tourism-related businesses and groups will be called to serve on a 40-member advisory board of stakeholders throughout the industry.

Aldermen voted in late January to establish the body, which will serve as an advisory board to the existing six-member Convention Promotion Commission.

On Wednesday the Chamber of Commerce’s Tourism Council, which aldermen have charged with nominating what is being called the tourism &uot;superboard,&uot; brainstormed which sectors they would like represented on the superboard.

Such groups ranged from hotels and restaurants to tourism and civic organizations.

Rene Adams, president of the Tourism Council and now secretary of the Convention Promotion Commission, said the council will call representatives of those groups in the coming weeks to ask them to serve.

Adams said she’s not worried the board &045; with a target of 40 members, although that number could increase &045; will become too unwieldy to do business.

&uot;We want it to be big enough to be inclusive,&uot; Adams said.

The Tourism Council will stop meeting once the superboard starts meeting next month &uot;because we don’t want too many boards,&uot; Adams said.

Creating such a board was chief among tourism recommendations New Orleans-based tourism consultant Stu Barash made last fall to the Tourism Council.

The superboard, as Barash envisioned it, would have replaced the Convention Promotion Commission.

But Adams pointed out Wednesday that cannot be done because the commission, under the legislation that created it in 1999, has to exist to govern the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

That bureau takes in food and lodging taxes and manages the convention center.