Full Name: | Romain Arruat-Padis |
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Gender: | Male |
Date of Birth: | 05-Mar-1982 |
Nationality: | French |
Location: | Bangkok, Thailand |
About Romain Arruat-Padis
Experience in travel technology (booking engines) and connectivity.
APAC regional and worldwide network of hotels third party suppliers.
Senior Director of Business Development APAC | |
Hotelmize • Bangkok | |
Aug 2019 - Present • 5 years 4 months | |
Fully automated solution optimizing hotel resellers profits from existing sales.
Hotelmize is a Big-data based profit optimization solution for the hotel booking industry, focused on delivering higher profits by utilizing state-of-the-art technologies which traditional tools & common revenue management practices cannot provide.
- Responsible for developing and growing the APAC region overall business by prospecting potential clients, pitching company solution to them, and leading the sale cy... cle to closing. Read more |
Sales & Marketing Director Asia-Pacific | |
Juniper • Bangkok | |
Aug 2015 - Jul 2019 • 4 years | |
Sales & Marketing Director Asia - Pacific – Juniper Consulting (www.ejuniper.com)
Technology Solutions for the Travel Companies: Reservation system, BtoB / BtoC Booking Engine with front website, XML & Webservices for DMCs, Tour Operators, Travel Agents, OTAs, Airlines, Hotel Chains.
Based in Bangkok, Thailand, responsible for all the APAC region.
Deals closed with clients in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Thailand, Vietnam.
- Registration and opening of the APAC offic... e, in charge of the opening of the Company’s office in Bangkok, including legal procedures, office selection, suppliers contracting and HR search and hiring. - Responsible for the direction and management of sales and business development operations, including market competitiveness, distribution and channel strategy in the APAC Region for the Juniper Booking Engine and the Cangooroo Booking Engine. - Drive the development of sales strategies within the APAC Region. - Maintain key customer relationships and develop and implement strategies for expanding the company’s customer base. - Communication, marketing, prospection in the region to penetrate the market. - Demonstrations to all managerial levels, negotiations, sales, coordination with technical team during pre-sales discussions and implementation, customer support, up sales. - Competitive Intelligence. - Maintain relationships with suppliers to develop recommendations for the company solution. - Attendance of trade shows in Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China. Read more |
Sales Manager Asia | |
Illusions Online • Bangkok | |
Jan 2012 - Present • 13 years | |
Sales Manager, Asia Illusions Online (Technology company, online travel software): Back Office system and BtoB / BtoC Booking Engines for DMCs and Tour Operators: www.illusions-online.com; based in Bangkok, Thailand, responsible for Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar markets.
Frequent trips within the SEA region, to Dubai headquarters and to trade shows worldwide.
- Develop business relationships with new and existing Tour Operators, DMCs and Travel Agents in South East Asia and worldw... ide (client prospection, follow up). - Organize meetings with key decisions makers, presentations, demonstrations of the system. - Discussed customized technical development potentially needed. - Negotiate (pricing, transaction fees, payment plan) and close sales. - Coordination for implementation and customer support. - Attend worldwide trade shows (WTM London, WTM Latin America, ITB Berlin, ITB Asia, FVW Kongress Koln, Topresa Paris, ATF, TTM). - Distribution of iWTX (Illusions World Travel Exchange) to travel agents who can buy hotels and services real time/online from DMCs’ inventories using Illusions Online system: www.iwtx.com - Manage iWTX accounts to increase sales on iWTX. - Manage Sales Managers in Thailand. - Train and guide team in Asia, and colleagues in South America and US. Read more |