WorldRes.com Opens Offices in France.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999-- WorldRes.com (TM)(www.worldres.com), an online hotel distribution network for leisure travel, continues its global expansion, unveiling the company's new French headquarters at Sophia Antipolis Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970~84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. , near Nice, and a new sales office in Paris. Michel Jannet, a seasoned executive with more than 25 years' experience in the international hotel trade, will lead the WorldRes.com France team, overseeing company activities in France, Southern Europe Southern Europe or sometimes Mediterranean Europe is a region of the European continent. There is no clear definition of the term which can vary depending on whether geographic, cultural, linguistic or historical factors are taken into account. , the Mediterranean Basin The Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around and surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea. In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which , North Africa, and the French-speaking islands in the Caribbean This is a list of islands of the Caribbean. Anguilla
"The international leisure travel market has been a key component of our corporate strategy since the very beginning," said Greg Jones Greg Jones may refer to:
WorldRes.com also operates offices in the UK and Germany. The WorldRes.com France team includes: Michel Jannet, Managing Director for France and Southern Europe Prior to joining WorldRes.com, Jannet acted as a consultant and distributor of software for optimizing revenues in the hotel trade (yield management), and as Finance Manager for the development and running of Euro Disney's hotel complexes. Before that, he worked for a number of hotel chains including Intercontinental, Canadian Pacific (Montreal), Princess Hotels (Bermuda) and Grand Metropolitan (London). Jannet graduated from the Hotel/Catering School in Strasbourg. He attended further courses at the HCIMA HCIMA Hotel Catering and International Management Association in Bermuda, the AH&MA (University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. ), the ESCP ESCP Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris ESCP European Society of Clinical Pharmacy ESCP European Society of Coloproctology (Edinburgh, UK) ESCP Erosion and Sediment Control Plan ESCP European Small Claims Procedure in Paris and the Walt Disney World Noun 1. Walt Disney World - a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando Orlando - a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World University. He is fluent in English and also speaks German and Portuguese. Marie-Claire Risoli-Zimmer, Marketing Manager for France and Southern Europe Over the past 15 years, Risoli-Zimmer has held key management and marketing & sales positions at Intercontinental, the Ritz and Euro Disney, among others. She graduated from the Hotel/Catering School in Paris. Marc Hillebrant, Commercial Director for France and Southern Europe Hillebrant will provide the team with his 23 years of experience in the different sectors of the hotel trade -- from two star hotels to luxury hotels both in France and abroad. He has considerable experience in sales and marketing. After receiving a degree in Hotel Management in 1974, Hillebrant was appointed Commercial and Marketing Director by the following hotels: Interstate Hotels Corporation (Marriott Hotel in Moscow), Choice Hotels International, Hotel Concorde Lafayette, Hotel Ritz Paris and Hotel Intercontinental. Arnaud Lordez, Development Director for France and Southern Europe Lordez acquired extensive knowledge of the hotel trade and new technologies at chains such as Concorde and Accor where he was Marketing Director for Automated Services and International Reservations Director. He holds a vocational training certificate in the hotel trade. WorldRes.com France: WorldRes.com Paris sales office: Les Immeubles de Sophia-Delta Maison de l'Alsace 80, Route de Lucioles 39, avenue des Champs Elysees BP 37 75008 PARIS 06 901 Sophia Antipolis Cedex Tel: 33 1 53 83 10 33 Tel: 33 (0) 4 939552-10 Fax: 33 1 45 63 84 08 Fax: 33 (0) 4 939552-58 About WorldRes.com, Inc. WorldRes.com, Inc. (http://www.worldres.com) operates the online distribution network that connects hotels to leisure travelers through a broad range of Web-based partners, including portals, travel and destination Web sites, convention and visitor bureaus, tourism authorities, online city guides, call centers and travel agents. For hotels, WorldRes.com offers an efficient, low-cost means for marketing and selling accommodations online. For distribution partners, WorldRes.com provides detailed information and booking capability for a wide range of properties, from bed and breakfasts and independent hotels to resorts, vacation rentals and hotel chains. WorldRes.com was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. ; WorldRes.com Europe is based in Duesseldorf, Germany; and WorldRes.com UK offices are located in Staines, Middlesex. WorldRes.com employees collectively possess an extensive knowledge of hotel marketing, systems and operations as well as Internet-based transaction technology. WorldRes.com owns and operates two consumer Web sites: Places To Stay (www.placestostay.com), which offers real-time rates, reservations and information for all properties in the WorldRes.com system; and BedandBreakfast.com (www.bedandbreakfast.com), with information on more than 23,000 B&Bs and historic inns around the world. |
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