Marlon van Hee

Background

About Marlon van Hee

Marlon is project manager at the European Centre for Eco and Agro Tourism (2007). Since 2015 he has been working as a tourism expert for The Netherlands government and the United Nations. Marlon has worked in tourism for more than 15 years. Marlon is a graduate in International Tourism Management and Consultancy and equipped with a MSc degree in political-economic sciences. He has been working in different international tourism projects and tourism organizations. His experience encompasses project and supply chain management; national and international marketing; pro-poor sustainable tourism planning and development; commercial strategy and capacity development including training of the tourism private and public sector. Marlon has developed tourism product quality and sustainability standards and has been intensively involved as project manager in the development of the Travelife sustainability management and certification scheme for the tour operators and travel agents. He has in-depth knowledge of contracting procedures applying to external aid contracts financed from the European Union, concept notes, drafting of project budgets, project needs assessments and report writing. Marlon has worked in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa and speaks Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish. He has good planning and organising skills and (co-) organised Myanmar's first ever travel trade roadshow to Scandinavia, West Africa's and Central Asia's first regional tourism conferences.