PALMA, Spain, 21 November 2018: Hotelbeds announced, Tuesday, a senior management appointment, naming Jason Soss as the new global head of strategic partnership for Hotelbeds.
The strategic partnerships team led by Soss focuses on analysing and generating major business opportunities, developing and implementing new market initiatives, and managing Hotelbeds largest partnerships, particularly in the airline, loyalty, and online travel agency space.
Soss, who has over 20 years of experience in the travel space, was previously the president of global business development for Travel Holdings – which formed part of Tourico Holidays and was subsequently acquired by Hotelbeds in 2017.
In this new role, Soss will take over the company’s largest partnerships, on a global scale, coming from the legacy Tourico Holidays, GTA, and Hotelbeds businesses.
Reporting to Soss within the strategic partnerships team are Jon French, director of strategic partnerships for EMEA & APAC, Bruna Buiatti, director of strategic partnerships in Latin America, Ronald Chan, head of Holidays APAC, and Camilla Riccardi, manager of strategic partnerships in EMEA.
The announcement follows the recent consolidation of Hotelbeds, GTA, and Tourico Holidays operations under the Hotelbeds name, with the gradual phasing out the GTA and Tourico Holidays brands.
Additionally, Hotelbeds Group and its commercial Bedbank brand, will both now be branded as ‘Hotelbeds,’ to place a bigger emphasis on the company’s sole focus in the bedbank sector.
Following the integration of Tourico Holidays and GTA into Hotelbeds last year its new combined offer now has well over 170,000 hotels, 24,000 transfers, and 18,000 activities available to over 60,000 travel intermediaries globally through the Hotelbeds platform.
