Interview with an OTA expert: Alberto Plasencia-Gonzalez Which type of clients does your business unit mainly work with and what services do you offer them? At Tripadvisor I was working with hotel chain clients such as B&B Hotels and Lucien Barriere in France and Ibersol and H10 Hoteles in Spain. My team offered these clients …
Interview with a Travel PR expert: Stephanie Boyle In your current role, which part of the business does your team support and what type of requests are you given in a typical month? I support several areas of the business. My team looks after corporate and industry comms, which includes PR, speaking opps, events, product, …
Interview with a travel technology expert: Cedric Gondar Which type of clients does your business unit mainly work with and what services do you offer them? Uniguest covers many sectors, including retail, stadiums and senior living but my team focuses on hotels. We support hotel clients to inform, promote to and entertain their guests and …
Interview with a DMO expert: Gianluca Laterza Which type of clients does your business unit mainly work with and what services do you offer them? We are a ‘destination agency’ and we support Destination Marketing Organisations (DMOs). These clients are predominantly regional and city tourist boards or private consortiums. These entities, whether public or private, …
Interview with an OTA expert: Christian Becker Which type of clients does your business unit mainly work with and what services do you offer them? Here at Tripadvisor we have two sales service units: Enterprise Sales and Small Medium Business. I am looking after our enterprise clients or as we call them, key accounts. These …
Interview with an travel expert: Alistair MacGregor With the benefit of hindsight, when did you recognise that major disruption was coming to the travel, hospitality and leisure industry due to Covid-19? At the beginning of the year I was working at Tripadvisor, and our department had moved into the second quarter of implementation following a …
Interview with an events expert: Charlie Grant Peterkin What type of events do you run and who is your main target market? Our events vary in size from intimate gatherings of 30 guests to large events involving thousands of people. These might consist of canape receptions, lunches, dinners – 75% of which are corporate and …
Once regarded as a sleepy backwater floating on the edge of the vast Pacific, New Zealand in 2020 is firmly etched on the map of destinations that international travellers would like to visit. A rockstar economy, an outrageously beautiful and untouched landscape, gold medal wines; a country run by a young Prime Minister, icon of …
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