Senior Director, Hotel Programs
CurrentEstablished nearly 50 years ago, TRAVELSAVERS is a leading international travel marketing organization and travel advisor community with more than 3,000 independently owned travel agencies in 36 countries.My goal is to continue bringing value to our hotel partners and agency members by making positive changes to the hotel program. My responsibilities include:● Overseeing the hotel division marketing, including all digital, print and online media.● Overseeing the hotel RFP process for our annual hotel program including creating the RFP, working with 3rd parties to distribute the RFP to hotels and processing the RFPs to include them in Sugar (CRM) and handling the billing process.● Managing supplier accounts including hotel chains such as: BWH Hotel Group, Extra Holiday, HotelREZ, Omni Hotels & Resorts, Millennium Hotels & Resorts, NH Hotels, Sonesta, and more.My successes include:● Increasing the number of travel advisor subscribers to publications by more than 75% in one year.● Successfully increasing the number of hotels in the program by 24% in one year.● Working with IT to create a hotel programs group within our CRM to keep track of hotels in the program YOY, and to create a billing process.● Winning a 2022 and 2023 Gold Magellan Award for our Agent's Edge online magazine