RCD Hotels signs up new business development manager
RCD Hotels has expanded its UK sales team with the appointment of Kelvin Dunk to business development manager south.
Dunk’s role will include the continued development of key agency, operator and airline relationships as well as establishing marketing and promotional campaigns to drive consumer sales.
He will be visiting agents from across the region to provide one-on-one training to on the RCD Hotels portfolio of properties across Mexico, the USA and the Caribbean, highlighting brand USPs and providing point-of-sale material.
He will join the existing team of UK business development manager for the north, Graham Brooks, and UK sales director, Janice Adey.
The RCD Hotels portfolio includes US-based Eden Roc Miami Beach, Nobu Hotel Miami Beach and Nobu Hotel Chicago (set to open early 2020), as well as Hard Rock Hotel properties in Cancun, Vallarta, Riviera Maya, Los Cabos and the first all-inclusive Hard Rock Hotel, in Punta Cana, among others.
Dunk has 20 years’ experience within the travel industry, most recently with SNCF.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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