Ralph Melis

Current

Account Manager Middle East at Booking.com

Past

Cluster Revenue Manager at Villa, Rimal & Rihab Rotana Suites, Dubai, UAE
Revenue Manager at Villa Rotana Suites Dubai, UAE
Reservations Manager at Beach Rotana Hotel & Towers Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Education

Cornell University
Hotelschool Den Haag, Internationale Hogeschool voor Hotel Management
Maerlant Lyceum, Den Haag

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Connections

483 connections

Industry

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Ralph Melis’s Summary

Have worked through multiple levels of front office hotel operations. Now aiming to become more experienced in the revenue management field to hopefully grow towards a more senior position in this field within the next few years.

Looking forward to now broadening my scope in the online travel market, and get more into the online distribution market as this is clearly where the future of travel is heading.

Ralph Melis’s Specialties:

Yield Management. Revenue and market analysis. Selling skills training and reservations management. Opera. Fidelio. Vision XL. Netrez. Trust.

Ralph Melis’s Experience

Account Manager Middle East

Booking.com

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; pcln; Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (10 months)

BOOKING.COM, part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN) since 2005, is Europe’s leading online hotel reservations agency with 19 million million room nights sold in in the 12 months previous to December 31st 2007. During this period Booking.com realised 1.9 billion Euros room sales for hotels.

Founded in 1996, BOOKING.COM offers competitive rates for any type of property, ranging from small independent hotels through to a five star luxury. The site is available in 16 languages and offers over 40,000 hotels in more than 10,000 destinations in 63 countries. It also has over 700 employees right now.

The company’s headquarters are based in Amsterdam, supported by 20 offices in Athens - Barcelona - Berlin - Cambridge - Cape Town - Dubai - Dublin - London - Loulé (PT) - Lyon - Madrid - Munich - New York - Paris - Rome - San Francisco - Singapore - Stockholm - Vienna - Warsaw.

Additional Information

Ralph Melis’s Groups:

eCornell Alumni
NLBorrels - the Dutch Expat Network
UAE staffing and Recruitment- HR solutions group
Hotelschool The Hague
Alumni Hotelschool The Hague
World Tourism Network
THAT's Professional (Travel, Hospitality, Aviation & Tourism)
Hotel Online Distribution & Revenue Management Professionals Group
Hospitality Recruiting Network
The Netherlands Business and Professional Network
HSMAI Travel Internet Marketing Special Interest Group
Revenue Management Experts
Hotel Industry Professionals Worldwide
Revenue Management Professionals
UAE Professional Networkers Group
Internet. Serious Business.
Dutch professionals working abroad
Airline Revenue Management
OTA, Online Travel Agent, Agents, Travel Portal, Portals, GDS, IDS, Global, Internet Distribution