S.A. ON TOUR: Cape Town North
Time
09:00
Date
04.08.22
Location
Le Franschhoek
Here we come! Profitroom are going on tour and our team will be hitting the road, equipping you with the best hospitality booking technology, talking through the latest trends and highlighting ways you can increase your revenue.
We'll be in Cape Town North on Thursday 4 August at Le Franschhoek.
Ease into pure luxury and be treated to elegant finishes and careful attention to detail. Set against a backdrop of towering mountains and manicured gardens.
Join us along the way for a morning of connection and hear from our fantastic speakers:
Samantha Williams, specialist in direct bookings revenue.
Michael Puffett, leader in strategic thinking, business growth and innovation.
Rijan Visser, a vision for South African tourism, post-Covid.
Be there.
Agenda
| Session One: Michael Puffett | The agony and ecstasy of post-Covid hospitality. |
|---|---|
| Session Two: Rijan Visser | A vision for South African tourism, post-Covid. |
| Session Three: Samantha Williams | From lookers into bookers: How leisure hotels and resorts can convert more web traffic. |
Location
Location
Le Franschhoek, Le Franschhoek 16 Minor Rd,Franschhoek,,7690,South Africa
Speakers
Samantha Williams
Samantha Williams is an award winning revenue specialist and currently holds the senior management position of Commercial Director at Profitroom. Before joining Profitroom she worked as a senior revenue and product manager working with a mixed portfolio of over 75 hotels and prior to this held sales and marketing manager positions for leisure resorts and hotels in the UK. Highly respected and with a strong background in hospitality, revenue management and leadership she has worked across numerous hotel marketing and management disciplines and is able to relate to the challenges that hoteliers face.
She is passionate about helping hoteliers maximise and grow their revenue and is an advocate for personalised, automated processes and integrated systems that help to make the sales process easy for employees and more engaging for guests. At Profitroom Samantha leads on the strategic and operational activities to deliver transformative, tangible results for leisure hotels and resorts in the UK, Europe and beyond.
Michael Puffett
For over 20 years, Michael has been developing and training leaders and entrepreneurs around the world. Having resided in the UK for 16 years and presented leadership training in over 25 countries, he has a wealth of international experience and practical know how.
Working with government departments, businesses, corporates, NPO's as well as sports teams to build leaders, strengthen companies, envision and inspire.
Michael is an adventurer at heart, together with a small overland team he has driven in a 4x4 from London, UK to Cape Town in South Africa, climbed Kilimanjaro and visited 66 countries.
Rijan Visser
Rijan has been exploring Africa since he could walk. Since 1999, tourism became his fulltime passion as an entrepreneur to develop Southern Africa as the hotspot for International Travelers.
His vision has created major brands like Live the Journey and Involv Africa as top DMC companies. His portfolio also includes WOW lodges, with properties in the Kruger national Park and the famous Garden Route.
As one of the most recognised tourism personalities, his next passion is to help re-build the industry in a post-Covid world, and share his knowledge and experience to help companies develop in this space.