Michelle Bartlett-Vuk Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Developed, organized and implemented annual promotions calendar including national trade shows, partner seminars, annual 3 week workshop series, annual travel agent conference held in Tahiti and industry “one off” events.• Worked within limits of an extremely restrictive annual budget• Liaised daily with trade industry partners to encourage participation in events• Organized and worked closely with additional South Pacific Tourism offices for joint efforts in trade show pavilions particularly DEMA (the largest dive show in the U.S.) and the Luxury Travel Expo• Negotiated with hotels across with U.S. and Canada for annual workshop road shows in regards to meeting and conference rooms, food and beverage and sleeping accommodations• Worked jointly with counterparts in French Polynesian head office on large international events

• Developed and maintained existing Travel and Adventure advertisers• Prospected for and secured new advertisers through face to face and telephone sales calls• Client base consisted of travel agencies, small retail companies specializing in adventure sports, media buyers and advertising agencies for hotels, airlines and tourism boards. • Daily use of CRM, Outlook, Excel and Word.

• Prospected, developed, maintained and grew large Southern California sales territory• Consistently exceeded revenue goals by 20% and above• Clients included retail travel agencies, corporate travel accounts, the MICE market, group business (universities, sports teams, church groups)• Secured annual business from Alcoa Aluminum, B/E Aerospace and Chevron• Secured group business from such accounts as IMAX, Yamaha, Louis Vuitton, NFL, IRL (International Rugby League) and Dr. Pepper• Worked with the Marketing team on projects including the 2000 Sydney Olympics, America’s Cup 2000 and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy• Escorted top producing accounts to New Zealand, Australia and the Cook Islands• Represented the company at industry events and trade shows

• Supported top producing wholesale, retail and corporate accounts with annual revenue of $100,000 and above

Worked in the top revenue producing office. Heavy walk in traffic focused on multiple countries/round the world individual travel

Education record

General Education

Completed 56 transferable General Education units

Education record