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Forbes
Travel Guide Launches
Headquarters
in London as it Expands Further into Europe
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Names Chris
Fradin Vice President of Client Services for Europe
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New
York, NY – March 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / Forbes
Travel Guide today took the next step in its global expansion, announcing
the opening of its European headquarters in London, and naming Chris Fradin
as Vice President of Client Services for Europe.
Responding
to increasing demand for its global star ratings platform worldwide, this
marks the first time Forbes Travel Guide has maintained a headquarters
in Europe. Headed by Fradin, the London office joins Forbes Travel Guide
offices in Atlanta, New York and Hong Kong. Forbes Travel Guide now rates
hotels in sixteen countries on four continents. The company expects to
make further announcements detailing its rapidly accelerating international
expansion in the coming weeks.
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“We
are pleased to welcome Chris Fradin to our unmatched team of Forbes Travel
Guide professionals worldwide and launch our office in London,” said Gerard
J. Inzerillo, Chief Executive Officer of Forbes Travel Guide. “We are expanding
both our service capacity and our base of rated Five-Star, Four-Star and
Recommended hotels throughout Europe.” Inzerillo concluded, “The expansion
of Forbes Travel Guide continues to accelerate, as we expand our capability
to help discerning consumers make better luxury travel decisions around
the world, while serving the luxury hospitality community.”
Fradin
reports to Peter Kressaty, Forbes Travel Guide’s Senior Vice President
of Client Services.
“I
am delighted to join Forbes Travel Guide at this dynamic and important
moment in the brand’s worldwide expansion,” said Fradin. “The company has
achieved important growth milestones in the past year, and this is just
the very beginning. I am looking forward to working with and supporting
Forbes Travel Guide partner hotels throughout Europe, as we expand the
brand’s prestige and influence throughout the continent in response to
growing demand.”
Forbes
Travel Guide announced a push into Latin America in 2014, with the expansion
of its star ratings system to Mexico, The Caribbean, and key markets in
Argentina and Brazil. Last month, it announced its first star rated hotels
in Bangkok, Thailand, Guangzhou, China, and Tokyo, Japan. Also last month,
Forbes Travel Guide released its annual list of top rated hotels, restaurants
and spas for 2015, recognizing hundreds of Five-Star, Four-Star and Recommended
properties in the markets it rates – the United States, Canada, Mexico,
the Caribbean, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Costa Rica, London,
Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore and Guangzhou.
About
Chris Fradin
Chris
Fradin brings seventeen years of sales, marketing and client service experience,
most of it in travel and hospitality.
Fradin
joined Preferred Hotel Group in 2006, and directed the organization’s marketing
programs across EMEA. From 2009 to 2013, he headed up Preferred’s London
office as Regional Director (UK, Ireland & Nordics), focusing on the
overall relationship with luxury hotel members.
After
a stint with global giant, Samsung Electronics, developing European-wide
relationships with key hotel groups, Fradin joined D&D London driving
all sales and marketing initiatives for the group. Earlier in his career,
Fradin held sales and marketing positions in London with The Financial
Times Euromoney Institutional Investor and British Telecommunications (BT).
About
Forbes Travel Guide
Forbes
Travel Guide, formerly Mobil Travel Guide, is the originator of the prestigious
Five Star Rating system, and has provided the travel industry’s most comprehensive
ratings and reviews of hotelssince 1958. Forbes Travel Guide has a team
of expert inspectors who anonymously evaluate properties against up to
800 rigorous and objective standards, providing consumers the insight to
make better-informed travel decisions. Forbes Travel Guide is the gold
standard for luxury hospitality ratings worldwide. For more information
about Forbes Travel Guide, visit ForbesTravelGuide.com.
ForbesTravelGuide.com
combines the objectivity and heritage of the Forbes Travel Guide Star Rating
system with insightful recommendations from a hand-selected group of travel
experts, tastemakers and Forbes Travel Guide inspectors. ForbesTravelGuide.com
is the exclusive online destination for Forbes Travel Guide’s list of Star
Rated hotels, restaurants and spas, giving registered members exclusive
access to special offers and curated experiences from select Forbes Travel
Guide partners.
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Media
Contact:
Michael
Frenkel
MFC
PR – New York
for
Forbes Travel Guide
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