Hemisphere Hospitality Solutions - about us
Our company is made up of senior industry professionals - who have built their skills across a number of tourism, hospitality, airline and travel related companies.
This core base of knowledge and industry relationships we utilise to ensure that our clients are optimising every available opportunity to increase occupancy, rates and yield.
At all times we work directly as an extension to the clients hotel team - providing weekly planning, implementation of programs and two-way feedback.
With offices in Sydney and Brisbane - Hemisphere can provide tailor made solutions to cover all aspects of hotel, resort and apartment sales and marketing.
Our relationships are multi tiered in that we will appoint your hotel with an account manager and you will have access and support across our entire team in the various elements of account management, e-commerce, rates and distribution.
Hemisphere bridge the knowledge gap through 100 years of experience and relationships in the industry. All of our clients have a national sales team working for them - which in the past was limited to the hotel chains - we can make a difference to your property.
Please contact us for further information on what we can do for your property.
Ralph Kelly
Managing Director
Ralph brings to the team enormous depth in strategy development, having specialised in strategic sales and marketing within the tourism and hospitality industries for over 33 years. Previous roles include: Accor Asia Pacific - National Director of Sales & Marketing (Leisure), Rendezvous Hotels & Resorts International - Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, Sabre Pacific - National Sales Manager, American Express responsible for travel management services to multi-national accounts, as well as Thomas Cook Travel Management and several sales roles at Qantas Airways Limited.
During his time with Accor, Ralph was responsible for sourcing, implementing and managing the relationship with Channel Seven's "Sunrise" morning program. This relationship is now in it's eight year and worth many millions of dollars. Other projects included the research and feasibilty analysis of Accor entering the franchise apartment market in Australia, which now accounts for a large percentage of Accor's Australian properties.
Ralph is a managing partner of Hemisphere Hospitality Solutions a specialist sales & marketing consultancy firm for: hotels, resorts and apartments. Over the past seven years he has assisted many businesses with pre-opening strategies to ensure successful first year occupancies as well as greatly assisting their on-going operations with increased market share.
Ralph holds the following qualifications: a Bachelor of Business degree (International Marketing) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Contact Details:
Ralph Kelly
Hemisphere Hospitality Solutions
E: ralphkelly@me.com
M. 0400 214 415
A. level 1, 52 Avenue Road, Mosman, NSW, 2088
W. www.hemispheresolutions.com.au
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