Press Release: Kasel Luxury Marketing Group
November 9, 2001
NEW YORK, NY -- Erica S. Kasel has announced the launch of Kasel Luxury Marketing Group, which will help luxury
hospitality and travel marketers, and those industries wishing to partner with them, build business among targeted
customers. With more than fifteen years as a luxury marketing executive, Kasel most recently served as Executive
Director of Marketing at the Leading Hotels of the World, where among other achievements she re-launched the award-winning
web site www.lhw.com.
Kasel said, ``Many luxury hospitality companies and properties need to build cost-effective brand awareness without
sacrificing the business-building capacity that comes from a comprehensive, targeted marketing approach.'' She
continued, ``Our integrated marketing expertise and deep understanding of the luxury market can help clients find
solutions that optimize resources and yield measurable results while enhancing brand integrity.''
Services provided by the Kasel Luxury Marketing Group include:
The organization's client service offerings will benefit from Ms. Kasel's senior management experience at well-known
brands such as Preferred Hotels and Resorts Worldwide and The Leading Hotels of the World. Paul McManus, President
and CEO of The Leading Hotels of the World, commented, ``Erica Kasel has been a tremendous asset to our team at
Leading Hotels; her efforts have contributed greatly to the implementation of our vision to become the world's
leading lifestyle marketer, and we are sure her new venture will be an unqualified success.''
Ms. Kasel, an MBA graduate in Marketing and International Business of the New York University Stern School of Business,
was named one of the Most Powerful Women in Travel by Travel Agent magazine and is in Lodging magazine's Who's
Who. She has served as Vice President of Distribution Marketing at Preferred Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, and
worked eight years at the unit level with Omni, Sheraton Tara Hotels and The Michelangelo, New York. Ms. Kasel
graduated at the top of her class at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Hotel, Restaurant and Travel
Administration and continues to serve on their Alumni Advisory Board. She was elected Vice Chair of Hospitality
Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) and is an adjunct professor at the NYU Tisch Center for Travel
and Tourism Administration.
Kasel Luxury Marketing Group helps luxury hospitality marketers, and those industries wishing to partner with them,
build business among targeted customers. The company has expertise in areas including web site, internet and ecommerce
strategy and planning; email marketing programs; partnership and alliance development; customer relationship management
(CRM); marketing budget analysis and resource optimization.
For further information on services available from the Kasel Luxury Marketing Group, contact: ekasel@msn.com; or
(212) 808-7230, fax (212) 808-7215.
SOURCE: Kasel Luxury Marketing Group