Hotelbeds Group confirms new Bedbank structure

Hotelbeds Group, the leading bedbank worldwide and provider of business-to-business services to the global travel industry, has confirmed the new departmental structure of its Bedbank business as part of the integration of Tourico Holidays and GTA into the Group.

• New structure for Bedbank following integrations of Tourico Holidays and GTA
• Roles taken by existing senior management from all three companies plus external hire
• Department leaders will be members of Executive Committee

Following a strategic review a new departmental structure has been created with the following functions: commercial strategy, strategic partnerships, global business services, product management, retail travel agencies, wholesale, and sourcing.

Leading these areas as of the beginning of this year are as follows:

• Asi Ginio, director of commercial strategy & strategic partnerships. Asi joins from Tourico Holidays where he was most recently CEO.
• Alex Brändle, director global business services. Alex joins from GTA where he was the SVP of Business Transformation.
• Peter Mansour, director of product management. Peter joins from outside of the Group and has worked in senior roles at companies such as Microsoft and eBay.
• Alistair Roger, director of retail travel agencies. Alistair very recently joined GTA from Laterooms, where he was chief commercial officer.

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