Peter Booth Confirmed As Panelist At Upcoming Timeshare & Fractional Event In London
November 16, 2009 by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional ReviewsWe are pleased to confirm that Peter Booth will be joining our group of industry experts at The FORUM on 9-10 December in London.
Peter Booth is an economics graduate from the University of Natal in South Africa. He joined Unilever, the consumer goods multi-national group, as a marketing trainee and rose to become Marketing Manager during a 5 year working period. Peter’s friendship with the Pestana family in South Africa resulted in him moving to Portugal and joining the family business in 1983.
Peter Booth is a Board Director of Group Pestana, the largest hotel group in Portugal with 90 hotels on four continents and is directly responsible for its timeshare, golf and real estate divisions. He launched Pestana’s first timeshare development in 1985 and today Pestana has 12 timeshare resorts with an owner base of 30,000 families. The real estate division in the Algarve gained strength with the acquisition of Carvoeiro Gold in 1996 and Peter has been responsible for the development, marketing and sales of 500 holiday homes. Also falling within his remit are 5 golf courses that Pestana own and manage in Portugal. Pestana will open a 218 room hotel in London in March 2010, and Pestana is marketing and selling 66 rooms using the condo hotel concept.
Peter has been the Honorary Consul of South Africa in Madeira, Portugal since 1995.
The FORUM Conference will encourage maximum participation from attendees and will be a place to share issues and find solutions, to make deals, to find new opportunities, to discover what others have been doing and what has worked and what has failed. It will provide an honest, open and frank environment to share views and encourage co-operation as we enter a new era.
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