THE Walt Disney Company is still looking for a new vice president for Asia Pacific (APAC) regional sales and travel operations to take over from veteran Aliana Ho when she retires in August.
Ho leads the regional APAC and Hong Kong Disneyland (HKDL) Resort sales and distribution marketing teams, and works with the emerging Shanghai Disney Resort Sales team, reporting to Randy A Garfield, executive vice president of Disney’s worldwide sales and travel operations based in the US.
She came to Asia in 2004 having been transferred by Hong Kong Tourism Board from Canada to assume the role of general manager of destination marketing. She joined HKDL in 2009.
On the qualities needed in her successor, Ho cited strong leadership skills and an understanding of the region. “Business acumen and wide bandwidth is also counted because each park has a different business model and one has to understand it in order to build business,” she said, adding a good business network is also “vital”.
