Job Mobility in German Tourism - plus new committees and posts
*** based on news in Tourism Germany ***
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Kurt Uebachs has left Alltours as second General Manager besides Willi Verhuven. 6/03; Kurt Uebachs, formerly with Öger in Hamburg, is new co-managing director of Alltours Flugreisen. 11/01; Kurt Uebachs, long-time co-managing director of Turkey specialist Öger Tours in Hamburg, has left the company after 13 years. 10/01
Martin Ulrich is new Manager Marketing & Sales Germany of DFDS Seaways, he follows Veit Huertler. 7/03
Josef Alois Url is the new GM of the Steigenberger La Playa Resort in Taba, Egypt. 12/01
Cees van den Berg: John Will and Cees van den Berg joined the managing board of Transocean Tours in Bremen. 8/03; Cees van den Berg is new director marketing and sales of Transocean Tours; he follows Annegret Mueller-Stiffel, who took over Mare Reisen, a last-minute seller for cruises, formerly owned by van den Berg. 12/02
Steven M. van der Heijden will become Chief Executive Officer of TUI Nederland in August; he comes from Thomas Cook Netherlands and follows Annemie Brackx. 5/04
Arie van der Spek is new Chief Operating Officer of InterContinental Hotels Group EMEA responsible for Central & Eastern Europe, including Germany. 7/03
Dries van der Vossen is new Country Manager Germany of Queens Hotels, he follows Richard Moore. 10/03
Marcel van de Wal is new American Express Vice President Corporate Travel Operations Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He follows Winfried Barczaitis. 1/02
Edgar van Ommen is new VP Operations of the Arabella Sheraton group in Munich. 3/04; Edgar van Ommen is new General Manager of the ArabellaSheraton Grand Hotel and the ArabellaSheraton Bogenhausen in Munich. 6/03
Willi Verhuven, see: Kurt Uebachs has left Alltours as second General Manager besides Willi Verhuven. 6/03
Sandra Veth is new Manager Pricing & Sales Support Continental Europa of Norwegian Cruise Line in Frankfurt. 2/03
Klaus Vetter has retired as GM of Studiosus Sprachreisen in Munich. 2/04; Klaus M. Vetter leaves the language tour arm of Studiosus but continues to council the Munich tour operator. He is followed by Julia Richter, who comes from Euro Schüler Sprachreisen Munich. 8/03
Felix V. Vezjak is new Vice President Strategic Sales Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Carlson Wagonlit Travel with headquarters in Paris. 1/03
Gerrit Viering is new Manager Sales & Marketing Germany of Garuda Indonesia; former job holder Eugenio Jaime Manzano will now consult the airline. 10/03
Walter Vill from Munich Airport is new Chairman of the Board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen (ADV), the grouping of German airports. He follows Manfred Ernst from Bremen Airport. 12/02
Lutz P. Vogt has been elected chairman of the German Convention Bureau (GCB). 10/01
Bernd Voigt is new Managing Director of Lufthansa Systems Infratec, he follows Gunter Kuechler. 12/02
Innegrit Volkhardt, owner of Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, was voted „Hotelier of the Year 2002“ by magazine „NGZ-Der Hotelier“ in Frankfurt. 2/02
Álvaro Blanco Volmer: Delegates of international tourist offices in Germany have formed a new committee within the German Travel Agencies and Tour Operators Association (DRV). Speaker of the group is Jean-Pierre Courteau (French Tourist Office, Frankfurt), Álvaro Blanco Volmer (Spanish Tourist Office, Frankfurt) is a member. 12/02; see: Italo Somarriello, Director of Enit in Germany, is new president of Corps Touristique (CT), Álvaro Blanco Volmer (Spain) is a member of the board. 7/02
Ullrich von Collas has left Inter-Continental Hotel Group in Frankfurt as Director of Marketing. 2/04
Alexander von Keller is new GM of the renovated Sofitel Köln am Dom. 10/02
Alexander von Koslowski, see: Walter Krombach, Managing Director of Ameropa-Reisen GmbH in Bad Homburg and DRV Board member, was elected new President of the Group of National Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Associations within the EU (ECTAA). Alexander von Koslowski of Travel Overland/Travelocity Europe in Munich represents the DRV in the Technology Working Group. 7/02; Alexander von Koslowski is new Sr. VP Supplier Relations for Travelocity Europe in Munich. He will remain as one of the general managers of Travel Overland. 3/02
Christoph von Zabiensky is owner and Managing Director of new operator Emotion Tours in Bensheim, he comes from (Start) Amadeus Germany. 12/03; Christoph von Zabiensky has left Start Amadeus in Bad Homburg as head of sales and marketing, he was followed by Michael Mann. 6/03
Michael von Zitzewitz, see: Raimund Hosch (Messe Berlin GmbH), Jochen Witt (KölnMesse GmbH) and Michael von Zitzewitz (Messe Frankfurt GmbH) have been reelected as board members of AUMA - Association of the German Trade Fair Industry. 7/02
Stefan Vorndran is new GM Sales of TQ3 Travel Solutions in Bremen. 5/04; Stefan Vorndran will be new head of Key Account Management of TUI Business Travel Deutschland GmbH (TQ3) in Bremen, starting January 1, 2003. He comes from Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT). 12/02
Jeanette Wachenhausen will be GM of the Lindner Hotel Am Ku’damm in Berlin, due to open January 2004, she comes from Astron Hotels. 8/03
Martin Felix Waechter will leave Steigenberger Hotels as VP Marketing end of March. CEO Karl Anton Schattmaier will look after marketing and sales, too, now. 2/04
Eva-Maria Wagenhaeuser-Mueller, see: Richard Eberhardt from Pforzheim was elected as new President of the Internationaler Bustouristik-Verband RDA. Eva-Maria Wagenhaeuser-Mueller joined the board. 5/02
Friedrich Wagner is new Managing Director of Heilbronn Marketing, he shares responsibilities with Managing Director Bernhard Winkler. 12/02
Joerg Wagner is new World of TUI Director Accommodation Supply for Central Europe. 12/03
Susanne Wagner is new Head of Marketing/PR of streamevent AG, she comes from FTI. 7/02
Miklós Walkó, see: Csilla Mezösi will be new head of the Hungarian Tourist Office in Berlin in July, she follows Miklós Walkó. 4/02; Delegates of international tourist offices in Germany have formed a new committee within the German Travel Agencies and Tour Operators Association (DRV). Speaker of the group is Jean-Pierre Courteau (French Tourist Office, Frankfurt), Miklós Walkó (Hungarian Tourism Administration, Berlin) is a member. 12/02
Joachim Walther, who directed Budget Germany, left the troubled car-rental company. 10/01
Jürgen Weber: Wolfgang Mayrhuber is new Chairman and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, he follows Jürgen Weber, who now heads the Supervisory Board. 7/03; Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, will be the successor to the current Chairman and CEO, Jürgen Weber. The change will take place at the next Annual General Meeting, on June 18, 2003. 1/03; Jürgen Weber, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, was elected Chairman of the Thomas Cook AG Supervisory Board; he follows Walter Deuss, former Chairman of the Board of KarstadtQuelle AG. Thomas Cook’s two shareholders are Lufthansa and KarstadtQuelle AG. 12/02
Knut Wehner has left the supervisory board Travel24.com AG. 11/03
Steffen Weidemann will leave the Dorint hotel group in Mönchengladbach as VP Marketing. 3/03
Roland Weil, see: Martin Gaebges, Secretary General of the Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG) since 1999, was reelected at the Full Board Meeting in September in Frankfurt. Hans-Juergen Thien (Varig), Rolf Kaptur (All Nippon Airways) and Giovanni Matassa (Alitalia) left the Executive Committee (EC), Stefan Thurau (Cyprus Airlines), Michael Svedek (Royal Brunei Airlines) and Christian Lizana (Lan Chile) were newly elected. The other Executive Committee members are Hubertus Jung (Air Mauritius), Josef Bogdanski (Lufthansa, EC Chairman), Wolfgang Dreher (Hapag-Lloyd), Rudi Duckstein (British Airways), Frank Thiébaut (Air France), Thorsten Lettnin (Qantas), Henry Hasselbarth (Emirates), Yvonne Brauburger (American Airlines) and Roland Weil (Delta Air Lines). 10/03; Roland Weil will be Delta Air Lines’ new Regional Director for France, Italy and Spain, starting in July; from his Frankfurt office he will also look after sales activities in Greece, Turkey and India. 4/03; Roland Weil, see: Bob Hannah is Delta Air Lines’ new Regional Director for Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands and Russia, he follows Roland Weil. 4/03
Dieter Weirich will become new director corporate communications of Fraport AG in April. 3/04
Michael Weise is head of the new Qatar Tourist Board in Germany. 2/04
Alfred Weiss left Dorint AG in Mönchengladbach as VP Operations and Expansion. 8/02
Klaus Wellmann is new division head home, garden and leisure exhibitions of Koelnmesse GmbH in Cologne, he follows Regine Kalka. 3/03
Dorothée A. Wendorff, see: Michael Fley is new Director Central Europe of the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) in Frankfurt. He follows Dorothée A. Wendorff who left for private reasons. 5/02
Peter Wennel is new Director of Neckermann Flugreisen in Oberursel; he follows Matthias Rotter, who will head the touristic division of Meier's Weltreisen, starting in July. 3/03
Klaus Wenzel, see: Kai Hollmann from Gastwerk Hotel in Hamburg, Klaus Wenzel and Horst Rahe, both from Hotel Neptun in Warnemünde, have been named Hoteliers of the Year by NGZ magazine. 3/03
Kai Werner is new Account Manager for Great Lakes of North America and British Virgin Islands at rep Travel Marketing Romberg (TMR) in Mettmann, he follows Antje Ernstmeier. 7/02
Ralph Westermann is Öger Tours’ new Director of Sales in Hamburg; he follows Anne-Britt Sattler. 2/03
Gary White will be new Manager Central Europe of the British Tourist Authority in Frankfurt; he follows David Hamilton, who goes to Paris. The Frankfurt office will be in charge also now for Poland and Russia. 3/03
Ralf Wiemann is new Area Manager South/Southeast Europe of Gebeco/Dr. Tigges in Kiel, he comes from Wikinger Reisen. 6/02
Heiner Wilkens joined the Supervisory Board of Condor Flugdienst GmbH; he comes from Boeing in Brussels and follows Stefan Pichler. 2/04
John Will and Cees van den Berg joined the managing board of Transocean Tours in Bremen. 8/03
Reinhard Will will become Chief Financial Officer of TUI Nederland in June; he follows Abel Rasterhoff, who retired. 5/04
Thomas Willms is new VP Sales and Marketing of the Arabella Sheraton group in Munich; he follows Oliver Bonke, who is new VP Sales & Marketing Asia/Pacific for Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Singapore. 3/04
Andrew Windsor is new General Manager of Lastminute.com Germany, he follows Jan Marks. 8/03
Bernhard Winkler, see: Friedrich Wagner is new Managing Director of Heilbronn Marketing, he shares responsibilities with Managing Director Bernhard Winkler. 12/02
André Witschi is new head of operations of all Accor hotels in Germany. 6/03; André Witschi returned to Munich as General Manager Operations of ACCOR Hotellerie Deutschland GmbH. 8/02; see: Klaus Laepple ... the 12-head-strong BTW board now consists of eight other members: … André Witschi (ACCOR). 5/02
Jochen Witt, see: Raimund Hosch (Messe Berlin GmbH), Jochen Witt (KölnMesse GmbH) and Michael von Zitzewitz (Messe Frankfurt GmbH) have been reelected as board members of AUMA - Association of the German Trade Fair Industry. 7/02
Peter Wittmann will be new Key Account Manager of TUI Deutschland in Hanover, he comes from MG Technologies in Frankfurt. He follows Manfred Schmidt, who retires. 7/02
Hans Rudolf Woehrl: British Airways has sold Deutsche BA (dba) to Nuremburg investor Hans Rudolf Woehrl’s Intro Verwaltungsgesellschaft for one symbolic Euro. Woehrl in 1974 was founder of Germany’s first rival airline to Lufthansa, Nürnberger Flugdienst NFD, which later merged into Eurowings AG, today a Lufthansa subsidiary. He also served as councillor to dba from 1994 to 2001. Together with Moritz Suter from Crossair he was founder of European Regional Airlines Association ERA. 7/03
Birgitt Wolber, see: Sascha Buesseler is new Product Manager North America of Neckermann Reisen, he follows Birgitt Wolber. 6/03
Andreas Wolf is new head of sales for the tourism division of BTI Euro Lloyd Germany. 5/02
Marion S. Wolf is new Director of European Sales of the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (DTAG) in Frankfurt; she had been long-time director of the Visit Florida office in Germany. 6/04
Susanne Wolff, Marketing Services Manager North and Central Europe of British Airways in Frankfurt, now also looks after Denmark, Norway, Sweden and The Netherlands. 11/03
Eberhard Wulkop, see: Achim Schneider will start as division head Touristic at Meier’s Weltreisen in Düsseldorf July 1. He comes from Terramar and follows Eberhard Wulkop. 5/02
Bernd Wrede, who held the position of executive board chairman of Hapag-Lloyd AG, Hamburg, for many years, leaves the Hapag-Lloyd AG executive board at the end of his contract on December 31, 2001. 12/01
Volker Wuest (Bewotec) has left the DRV IT Committee. 10/03
Martin Wyatt is new CEO of Deutsche BA (dba) in Munich, he follows Adrian Hunt, who retired. 2/03
Ron Yeatman (Rewe Travel New Media) is new member of the DRV Committee Online Sales. 10/03
Christopher Yek now is Area Manager Germany, Poland and Russia of Malaysia Airlines in Frankfurt; he follows Krishna Moorthy who retired. 5/02
Suat Yilmaz is new General Manager of Bentour International in Germany; he follows Nihat Sahin. 2/03
Eduardo Zamorano, see: Shaun Powell, director general of TUI Espana, leaves the company, his successor is the former head of the incoming business, Eduardo Zamorano. 3/03
Matteo Zanarini is new GM Germany of Alitalia, he follows Alfredo Spadon, who became Area Manager Venice. 8/03
Michael Zengerle is now GM Continental Europe of Norwegian Cruise Line. 10/02
Barbara Zimmermann: City Line & Country Line in Bad Salzuflen closed their business. Owner Barbara Zimmermann and new partner Hans R. Mueller of Top International in Dusseldorf now founded Top City & Country Line GmbH with 450 associated hotels. 8/03
Andreas Zinschitz is new GM (together with Ralf Horter) of 1-2-Fly, he comes from TUI Leisure Travel and follows Dieter Clasen who left the company. 5/04
Ansgar Zoller, see: Richard Eberhardt from Pforzheim was elected as new President of the Internationaler Bustouristik-Verband RDA, Ansgar Zoller serves as treasurer. 5/02
Dieter Zuempel will be group director travel of Karstadt Quelle, starting April 1; he comes from TUI Deutschland and follows Winfried Barczaitis, who returns to American Express as new VP Strategic Growth in Frankfurt. 3/03
René Zymni is new Director Key Account of TQ3 Travel Solutions in Bremen. 5/04
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