We are delighted to have these three exceptional and dedicated individuals join our team in various capacities.
Irvine, Calif. (PRWEB) October 14, 2016
BookingPal, the global leader in channel distribution and revenue management for the vacation rental industry, announced today the appointments of two Regional Directors, Lauren Smith-Flaugher and Pamela Graves-Longley, and a Consultant, Vanessa Moore, for its newly created team focusing on servicing clients that manage multi-unit property management companies and time share properties.
“We are delighted to have these three exceptional and dedicated individuals join our team in various capacities,” says Brian Brown, BookingPal’s VP of Business Development. “Vanessa, Lauren, and Pamela all have extensive experience in the vacation rental space. They have established an excellent relationship with property managers and have been working closely with property managers to grow their bookings and revenue.”
Vanessa Moore was most recently the Director of National Accounts at Leisurelink where she managed the relationship with key national accounts. She has over 8 years of experience working with property managers on all the facets of their business. Prior to joining Leisurelink, she was the Business Development Manager at Black Rock Internet.
Lauren Smith-Flaugher was most recently managing the East Coast and Caribbean accounts for Leisurelink. She has over 10 years of experience in the hospitality and vacation rental space. Prior to joining Leisurelink, Lauren was in account management roles at Bookit and Booking.com. She started her career with the Disney Vacation Club.
Pamela Graves-Longley directed account management for the Mountain/Ski division of Leisurelink. Pamela was previously Director of Sales & Marketing of a company that owned multiple property management companies and hotels all within ski destinations in the U.S. and Canada, as well as at the Sky Lodge, and has been a hospitality professional for over 10 years. Pamela has extensive sales, marketing and brand communications experience.
The new team will focus on transitioning former LeisureLink clients and assist them as they leverage the BookingPal distribution platform. This will increase property managers’ revenue from various channels including Expedia, Booking.com, Airbnb and HomeAway among others.
About BookingPal, Inc.
BookingPal is a cloud-based travel technology company providing the vacation rental and holiday letting industry with a global distribution platform that features real-time connectivity between the leading property management software systems and top consumer travel websites in the world.
The BookingPal platform offers Vacation Rental Managers and Property Owners superior revenue opportunities by utilizing proprietary products to optimize distribution capabilities including myBookingPal channel manager. This is a software toolset that provides electronic connectivity between a supplier of rep level and key level properties and 3rd party distribution channels. The channel manager keeps ARI in sync between the supplier’s PMS systems and the 3rd party channels such as Airbnb, Expedia, Booking and HomeAway as well as myOptimize. myOptimize calculates listing quality and provides key feedback to achieve optimal channel placement and conversion. BookingPal is also offering myInquiry services which provides a qualified team of reservation agents to handle guest reservation communications. Additional managed distribution services includes: consolidated contracting, consolidated accounting & reporting, additional content syndication services, revenue & yield management tools, consulting, analytics, transaction processing and payment services.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Irvine, California, BookingPal seamlessly connects over 180,000 rentals located on 5 continents, from 10 different property management software systems to over 35 online global consumer travel websites and the travel agent industry.
Contact:
Media Contact:
Christian Orozco
Marketing Coordinator
Christian(at)bookingpal(dot)com
949-333-0724 Ext 112
