Hotelbeds’ Executive Chairman Joan Vilà, after dedicating more than 30 years of his career to driving significant innovation, transformation, and growth, has announced his decision to move to a non-executive role on the Board of Hotelbeds.

 

Vilà had originally planned to step back from the day to day running of the company in 2020, but the impact of Covid-19 required him to delay the move to focus on successfully navigating the company through the global crisis. Now, with a strengthened balance sheet and with the company in a good position to capitalise on the recovery once travel demand returns, Vilà believes that this is the right time for him to follow his original plan to move to a non-executive role on Hotelbeds’ board.

 

Vilà commented: “I am immensely proud of everything the Hotelbeds family and I have achieved together, so first and foremost I want to thank our incredible employees and my Executive team for their passion and dedication. From our early days as an incoming DMC business in Spain, to our transformation to become a world leading traveltech player, active in all major source markets and destinations worldwide - it’s been a real rollercoaster! The pandemic of the past 12 months alone is just one example of the many challenges we have had to overcome as a team, but time and again, our dynamic and agile culture has given us the competitive advantage to outmanoeuvre our competitors.”

 

“While as a non-executive Director and committed shareholder, I will continue to be very much involved in the next stages of Hotelbeds’ success story, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our hotel partners, clients and industry colleagues who have always supported us and played such an instrumental role in our success."

 

“I am looking forward to continuing to support Hotelbeds as well as other companies, in a non-executive capacity, which is something I’ve always been keen to do."

 

“With the appointment of Nicolas Huss, we are welcoming a highly experienced CEO with an incredible track record in the areas of B2B, travel and payments and we are very much look forward to the significant contribution and perspective he will bring to the company. Together with Hotelbeds’ greatly respected Executive team, including COO, Carlos Muñoz and CFO, Andrés García-Tenorio we are ready and able to further build on our incredible success story,” he said. - TradeArabia News Service