Rob Baldry Profile

With a Business Studies degree from Oxford Brookes University, and a Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Rob has a gained broad experience in leisure and hospitality.

Starting his career in retail travel, he then had 4 years at LEGOLAND Windsor. Here he was involved in the build and start up programme, which at the time was the most successful launch of a UK visitor attraction, attracting 1.28m visitors in the first season.

Rob then moved into hotels as Leisure Marketing Manager at Regal Hotels, a UK PLC with 115 hotels, responsible for short breaks and leisure marketing worth about £15m.

Rob was soon promoted to the role of Head of Marketing, where he initiated the groups first foray into the world of e-commerce, growing the channel from £12,000 revenue in year one to over £2m revenue within 5 years. As the hotel group was taken over by a Malaysian conglomerate, and began to shrink through strategic disposals, Rob also initiated a rebranding strategy, to reflag the retained hotels as Corus Hotels. This also included the rebranding of hotels in Australia and Malaysia, where the new owners had 5 properties.

After 5 years in this role, Rob became Sales & Marketing Director for No Ordinary Hotels, a small group of luxury historic properties. Since June 2006, Rob has been running Seabrook Marketing, a specialist consultancy company offering sales and marketing solutions to hotel and hospitality clients.  Rob is also a founder Director of StaySites, a web site publisher specialising in the accommodation sector that includes StaySouthWest, StaySouthEast, StayNorthWest and StayNewZealand.

As well as having been the recipient of a number of Hotel Marketing Association awards over the years, Rob is now a regular on the panel of judges for the annual awards. He also sits on the advisory marketing group for VisitCornwall and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

You can contact Rob Baldry on 07932 221149 or click here to e-mail.

Skype : robert.baldry