In her new function, Simone Massive shall be accountable for the corporate’s resort and lodging technique improvement, consolidating a workforce of over 50 professionals. Based mostly in Alicante, Simone will leverage her experience to forge resort partnerships globally.
Rising Journey Group, a world journey firm working the RateHawk, ZenHotels, and Roundtrip manufacturers, has made a senior-level appointment to its direct provide improvement workforce. Simone Massive joins the corporate because the Head of Direct Provide.
In her journey trade profession spanning over 20 years, Simone has held senior positions in vacation spot administration, enterprise improvement and partnership constructing in corporations together with Dnata Journey Group and W2M.
Felix Shpilman, CEO of Rising Journey Group, commented: “Aiming to offer our prospects with the broadest provide alternative attainable, our longstanding technique targeted on consolidating quite a few wholesalers and contracting resorts immediately. Whereas we now have mastered working with suppliers not like anybody else available in the market, we strategically shifted in the direction of creating direct connections within the European and Center Japanese areas. In 2023 these efforts led to a exceptional 32% progress in immediately contracted lodging, reaching a complete of 90,000 properties. Simone’s robust journey trade background, deep trade data and intensive expertise that she brings to the corporate will undoubtedly speed up our progress additional.”
Commenting on her new function, Simone Massive stated: “I’m excited to hitch the formidable workforce of Rising Journey Group throughout this pivotal time and to guide the Direct Provide division. We’re fostering collaboration with hoteliers prepared to entry tailored distribution throughout the Group’s a number of platforms. I look ahead to making use of my experience to drive the corporate's progress and long-term worth.”
Rising Journey Group (ETG) consolidates a complete stock of over 2.5 million choices, with 90,000 of them being related immediately by means of the corporate’s proprietary extranet system. By connecting to the ETG’s extranet, hoteliers and property homeowners can leverage the distribution channels throughout all ETG’s manufacturers, together with platforms designed for particular person vacationers (ZenHotels), journey brokers and trade professionals (RateHawk), and enterprise vacationers (Roundtrip). The Group’s platforms are utilized by over 10 million B2C shoppers and 100,000 B2B prospects. To offer better visibility amongst goal audiences, the corporate presents the High Stays program for immediately contracted properties. Moreover, the Group collaborates with nearly all of channel managers available in the market, empowering property homeowners to handle their distribution seamlessly.
In 2023, Rising Journey Group achieved a gross transaction worth of $2.6 billion. The corporate employs greater than 2,800 individuals in 80 nations. The corporate has workplaces in Wilmington, London, Berlin, Milan, Lisbon, Warsaw, Dubai and Limassol.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Community the place she is the Editor-in Chief. She can be accountable for the day by day operation and the monetary coverage. She holds a Bachelor’s diploma in Tourism Enterprise Administration from the Technical College of Athens and a Grasp in Enterprise Administration (MBA) from the College of Wales.
She has a few years of each educational and industrial expertise inside the journey trade. She has written/edited quite a few articles in varied tourism magazines.
