Pauline van Kooten

Background

About Pauline van Kooten

The Contact Factory organises business events and workshops in the MICE industry. The visitors are meeting organisers, are carefully selected and are personally invited to attend my fairs. Visitors to my events are attached to an association, a corporate company or an agency based in Belgium and organize all kind of gatherings, congresses, meetings, incentives in Belgium and/or in Europe. My partners and exhibitors are Convention & Tourism Bureaus; Suppliers from the meetings industry (such as special venues, hotels, congress centers.) I have worked over 15 years in the hospitality & hotel industry and I was part of the opening team of the first SAS Royal Hotel in Brussels (Now Radisson Collection). My main responsibilities where in the sales & marketing departments: training of sales people, set up of client Data Base, sales prospection and tele-marketing, contracting. I also worked as PR Manager : contacts with press, radio and TV, writing of press releases. I am an excellent sales person in the service industry with very good training skills. 2012 Bangui - Republic of Central Africa: pre-opening of the LEDGER Plaza Hotel. I was part of the training team. Training and introduction to the hospitality world to nearly 150 persons (locals). 2013 Bahrein: writing of vocational training courses in the hospitality sector for my client GIZ Germany.