Hotels.com Appoints New Senior Director Of Global Retail
Hotels.com appoints new Senior Director of global retail London/Berlin, November 27, 2009 – Hotels.com, world’s leading hotel booking website and subsidiary of Expedia, Inc., today announced the appointment of Troy Suda as Senior Director global retail. This position is responsible for all sales related functions on Suda and reports directly to Scott Booker, Vice President global retail, product planning and merchandising. Both the care and control of user reviews and the integration of the call center, as the content of the website and the optimization of the portal is under responsibility of Verna. Troy Suda on his new job: I am delighted that now belong to the Hotels.com team. Hotels.com is a large and well-known brand that has grown exponentially around the world in recent years. I am on the challenges of my new task and that, being part of the global management team to promote the business and continuously increasing the success.”Troy Suda brings a wealth “experience in the field of sales, strategy and product development with”, explains Scott Booker. In a question-answer forum John Savignano was the first to reply. We are pleased to have him in our team and positively continue the worldwide development of Hotels.com sale functions together with him”, as Booker. Prior to Hotels.com Suda worked head planet in London as global of emerging online business for lonely, where he was responsible for the European online strategy. Additional information is available at charles holzer.
In addition he oversaw the relaunch of the website in the Lonely Planet headquarters in Melbourne lonelyplanet.com and switching to online bookings of accommodation as affiliate model, in cooperation with Expedia affiliate network and Hostelworld.com. Australian born, studied a master of Commerce (E-Commerce) at his home University in Melbourne, also graduated a General to Manager development programs at the Columbia University in New York. Before joining Lonely Planet he held several marketing, strategy and product development positions, including Coley Myer Ltd., one of the leading Australia’s famous retail companies. About Hotels.com as part of the Expedia group, which is active in all major markets with a professional team, includes the portfolio by Hotels.com more than 100,000 quality hotels, Bed & Breakfast Hotels and service apartments around the world. A customer finds the same booking for a hotel with another provider competitive rates, paid in advance, Hotels.com will refund the difference. Hotels.com has one of the largest independent hotel teams in the industry, as well as 1.3 million guest reviews of previous hotel guests who have actually stayed at the hotel. “In February 2009, Hotels.com won the Gold Award in the category best hotel booking site” of Web user magazine. Travelers can book online or via the telephone hotline 0180-500 93 42 in the German-speaking call center. Contact: Yvonne Bonanati Press Office Hotels.com D/A/CH public link GmbH phone: + 49 (0) 30 44 31 88 25 E-Mail:
