DISCOVER KENYA
GUEST SPEAKER 1: Do we still need tour operators?
This guest lecture was given by Diederick Janssen. He is working in the tourism industy for more than 20 years and now he is working for the Dutch tour operator Neckermann.
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GUEST SPEAKER 2: Mora-Travel
Monique van der Heijden is founder and Manager of Mora-Travel since 2000. She leads the company, but apart from that she is still active in handling requests in Dutch, English, German and French. She is at the same time the contact person for travel agencies and Tour Operators.
GUEST SPEAKER 3: Safari-planner.com
Patrick Faase is developer of the website Safari-planner.com. He is a website developer and freelance teacher who loves traveling. He is helping students to develop their own website as well. He finisched his bachelor in International Tourism Management and Consultancy. During the 3th year of his study he went on a placement to Tanzania – Dar es Salaam, and felt in love with Africa.
GUEST SPEAKER 4+ 7: Twitter and Content Marketing
Robert-Jan Mast is a social Media Consultant, social media and community manager/social Networker. Futhermore, is he the owner of RRMast & Co. He knows a lot about social media and talked in this guest lecture about the socail media channel Twitter. Questions will be answerd, such as: what is Twitter for kind of network, how do you us this network and how can you use it in your business.
GUEST SPEAKER 5: Thomas Cook
Rob Segaar is Senior Product Manager by the Thomas Cook group in Amsterdam. He is 56 years old and doesn’t have a tourism study degree, but already worked in tourism for a long time. He started working for TUI as a product group manager after that he worked a period of time for Isropa Reizen and now he works since around two years for Thomas Cook.
GUEST SPEAKER 6: Pinterest
In this guest lecture was Suzanne Wartenbergh talking about the social media network Pinterest. She is a biologist, but also consultant for businesses. She gives recommendations to business about Pinterest. She likes visuals and that’s why she is also loving and using Pinterest.
GUEST SPEAKER 8: Zanox.
The fifth guest lecture was given by Meral Tervoert, she is Account Manager Fashion & Retail at Zanox. This company is Europe’s leading digital performance advertising network. She studied Tourism management in Breda, during her study she worked part –time at the travel agent D-reizen. Afterwards she worked for Thomas Cook, as a Partner Account Manager for the offline sales. Now she is working for the company Zanox.