Christopher Grime Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

London, England, GB

- SUSTAINABILITY: Manage the process of accepting and launching hotels in to the Considerate Collection – actively sustainable luxury hotels, with strict conditions for entry using the Global Sustainable Tourism Council’s (GSTC) Industry Criteria for Hotels framework. The Considerate Collection launched in October 2021 and has grown to a portfolio of over.

London, England, GB

Responsible for connecting all new SLH properties to the brand, including assisting hotels with copy. I am also the relationship holder with Leonardo for image management through the VScape platform. In addition to these roles, the exciting new area of work is as project lead for our new partnership with World of Hyatt where my responsibility is the launch.

London, England, GB

Retained by Small Luxury Hotels of the World, to manage the connecting to the brand process for new properties, which includes controlling the flow of data between the hotels and systems required for the successful operation of the business. All aspects of the process have been reviewed to improve efficiency. Connection process was cut from a four week to.

London, England, GB

Appointed by Small Luxury Hotels of the World to create a business plan for a brand new concept product for the company. The plan was delivered on time. The global recession and set up costs involved meant that this project was put on hold. As this is still a potentially viable project and is therefore commercially sensitive, no other details can be added.

Contracted to bring an ailing project back on target and on budget over a nine month period and then was successfully launched. The concept of tailor-made holidays was a new one to Virgin Holidays and this project was the startup of the Virgin HIP Hotels product, which continues to run successfully today. The process involved selling the concept to all.

Following a company re-structure, took on the day-to-day operation of all aspects of the company business beyond the point of sale from document production to ticketing for all products – Conference and Incentives, Groups and tailor made (individuals) – these three areas had previously been split over three departments. The role included handling.

Role encompassed developing a brand new product for Bales away from their traditional groups market. Individual travel over this period of time grew to account for over half of Bales business and growth was increasing by around 40% year on year. Managed all aspects of this business, including producing the first Tailor Made brochure; setting targets for.

Worked with a small team of 4 developing group travel from anything from a party of 10 up to the biggest group I handled which was a conference in Russia for 800 delegates. Other clients included the Sunday Times, British Museum, Petrie Museum, English Bowling Association and several film production crews from Wish You Were Here? and the Holiday Programme.

Six months working for this environmental charity on projects from clearing derelict land and creating gardens, to repairing dry stone walls. Spent time working with people trying to get back into employment and adults with special needs to help them gain skills and confidence – very rewarding

Ba Hons, Geography

Post Grad, Business And Tourism

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