Keshwar Bhagat Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Business Travel Sales Manager for the largest hotel in Canada with 1,590 rooms in the heart of downtown Toronto.• Responsible for the Business Transient Segment • Handling large Corporates, Embassies & Consulates, Chambers of Commerce, First Nations & Not-for-Profit organizations.• Managing VIP delegations from diplomatic missions and ministries.• Work alongside Asst Director of Sales for forecasting & reporting within the segment.• Planning & implementing strategies for Key Accounts, identifying & procuring new business, RFP’s and generating leads• Prospecting and analyzing via Hotelligence/Agency 360 and CoStar to identify new accounts, negotiating contracts.• Prepare weekly/monthly reports. Update Company Information on Hotel CRM – Delphi & work on Opera.• Participate in Trade Shows i.e ACTE (Canada), GBTA (Canada).• Travel to feeder cities like Montreal, Ottawa & Thunder Bay to solicit business from Travel Management Companies, Corporates and Embassies & Consulates. These activities support the initiative to obtain new accounts• Conduct site inspections to prospective accounts thus trying to win and shift business from competition to hotel & gain Market share.

Mumbai, India

• Brand Positioning As Dusit’s first and only representative successfully introduced, positioned and developed the brand across the country with the travel trade fraternity, wedding and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions.Organized the first Dusit Hotels & Resorts roadshow in key metros of India Developed new markets • SalesKey account management, ensuring constant updates on the Dusit portfolio to the market via sales calls, emailings, etc.Represented the group as its ambassador at tradeshows and events Identified key accounts for each of the hotels that needed to be contracted. • Marketing, PR & BrandingSeptember 2018: Collaborated with The Royal Thai Consulate, Tourism Authority of Thailand in Mumbai to organise a Familiarization Trip for Bollywood film production houses.June to August 2018: Collaborated with Thai Golf Pass, an initiative launched by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to promote golf tourism to Thailand. Positioned Dusit Thani Bangkok as the official hospitality partner for golf tournaments taking place in Bangkok from May to October 2018. March 2018: Collaborated with Thailand Conventions and Exhibitions Bureau (TCEB) to organise a FAM trip of M.I.C.E professionals from Tier II cities of India to showcase facilities of Dusit hotels.

• Increasing visibility of France as a destination beyond Paris and the French Riviera• Increasing footfalls to France• Educating the travel trade fraternity about the destination as a whole across diverse segments: FIT/GIT/ MICE/Wellness Tourism/Weddings/Educational trips by way of sales calls and training sessions to various metros of India.

• Promotion of domain centric French Trade Fairs and Exhibitions to potential Indian exhibitors and visitors.• Selling of exhibition space to potential exhibitors and assisting them in every step of their participation in the exhibitions.• Creating, managing and updating a huge database of exhibitors and visitors• Visiting concurrent and homogeneous exhibitions taking place in India and getting business for the company.• Networking to establish and garner contacts.• Interacting with organizations and associations for mutually beneficial collaboration with Promosalons and for arranging VIP delegate visits to France.• Tapping media professionals viz. publication houses for promotions of French Trade Shows by way of placing Ads and banners in their respective magazines and on their website.• Arranging a barter deal between Promosalons and the publication house for extensive profiling and post-exhibition coverage of the trade shows held in France.• Diffusion of press releases of the French events to respective magazines.• Making Post-show reports and doing post-show analysis.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Designated with the responsibility of conducting visa interviews of potential travelers to France, deciding the issuance and refusal of visas. Scrutinizing paperwork submitted by applicants and checking the authenticity of each document. Handing out visas for professional, business and tourism purpose. • Processing visa documents• Interviewing and interacting with potential travelers for France• Handing out visas for France