Apple Tree Group Hospitality has hired Christine Béland as director of sales and marketing at Bagan Lodge, a 85-room hotel located on the edge of the destination’s archaeological zone.
(TRAVPR.COM) MYANMAR - November 21st, 2013 - BAGAN, Myanmar - Apple Tree Group Hospitality has hired Christine Béland as director of sales and marketing at Bagan Lodge (www.bagan-lodge.com), a 85-room hotel located on the edge of the destination’s archaeological zone.
Béland most recently worked for two years as the sales and marketing manager of the Victoria Angkor Resort & Spa in Siem Reap. Previously, she worked at resorts in the Caribbean.
At Bagan Lodge, Béland joins Australian General Manager Jon Bourbaud as a principal on the debut property’s launch team. She will assume responsibility for the same functions at Sanctum Inle Lake when that property opens in 2014.
A native of Canada, Béland did her undergraduate work in Montreal and earned a degree in business from HEC Montréal. She speaks English and French. Béland can be reached at dosm@bagan-lodge.com.
ABOUT APPLE TREE ASIA
The Apple Tree Asia owns and/or manages hotels and clubs across Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar. The hotels and clubs include Emeraude Classic Cruises, a replica French colonial-era steam ship that plies the waters of Halong Bay; La Residence Hotel & Spa, is a historic hotel on the banks of the fabled Perfume River overlooking the former Imperial Citadel in Hue, Vietnam; Villa Maly, a classic Laotian residence originally built in 1938 in the heart of Luang Prabang by a grandson of Lao King; Kamu Lodge, a rustic tented and thatched roofed eco lodge on the shores of the legendary Mekong River, 30 kilometers upstream from Luang Prabang; Bagan Lodge, a gateway to some of the world’s most magnificent temples and pagodas and the Press Club, founded in 1997 as one of the most distinguished business and culinary addresses in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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