Outrigger appoints Eugene Oelofse as director of marketing and e-commerce, Asia Pacific. He is based in the Outrigger Asia-Pacific office in Phuket, Thailand, and reports to Mark Simmons, vice president of sales and marketing, Asia Pacific.
Oelofse brings 13 years’ experience in branding, communications, digital, marketing and CRM to Outrigger. He was previously branding and communications director at AKARYN Hotel Group in Thailand.
For two years prior to that, he was group marketing manager at the Premier Hotel & Resorts Group in South Africa.
“Eugene’s online, digital and communications skills in the leisure sector will be a major asset to Outrigger Resorts,” says Darren Edmonstone, Outrigger managing director, Asia Pacific. “Given our direction to further grow our B2B and B2C outreach with innovative initiatives and programmes, he will provide a strong resource in these areas to support this.”