Louisville Tourism has retained SearchWide Global to find an experienced professional to serve as the new Director of Sales. As the official marketing organization for Louisville, KY, the agency’s mission is to enhance Louisville’s economy through tourism – to position and sell the community worldwide, in partnership with the public and private sector, as a premier destination for conventions, trade shows, corporate meetings, group tours, and individual leisure travel.
The primary role of the Director of Sales is to promote and sell Louisville as a destination for conventions and tradeshows by soliciting accounts in the Trade Business and Commercial Market. The Director will play a leadership role at large for the department and support the Sr. VP of Convention Development. This position is also responsible for achieving individual sales goals annually, consisting of room nights booked, number of bookings, and team effort. In addition to achieving individual sales goals, the Director will be responsible for training and directing Sales Managers in all matters pertaining to Convention Sales and in other projects and duties as assigned.
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SearchWide Global is a full service executive search firm primarily for companies in the travel, tourism, hospitality, lodging, convention, trade association, venue management and experiential marketing industries. We specialize in C-Level and Director level executive searches for companies ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to mid-sized public and private companies and associations.