Marlene Gube

Building and selling individualised travel itineraries with the focus on South African and East African countries. Visit tourlane-africa.de.

I am running and managing the HQ in Berlin, being responsible for all administrative tasks to keep the office alive, creating an amazing office Environment. I am coordinating payroll and HR administrative tasks, on-boarding and off-boarding and supporting the Invoice / AP process. I am taking care of daily operational challenges delighting the team where I can. I am in charge of organizing all trainings, internal travel arrangements and events.

I am leading groups from 3 - 18 guests; mainly in Europe on bicycle and cruise tours. Being responsible for the successfull accomplishment of itineraries, time schedule, bike routes, cultural visits as well as culinary highlights.

Documents Distribution Clerk, translations (French, English, German), Service Hotline at COP21, Paris 2015.

Tour leading and primarily support of Elephant Hills marketing management team. Key tasks included daily work with social media marketing where I updated and developed Elephant Hills social media platforms. I was given the full responsibility of analyzing ROI, creating time schedules and develop new strategies. Besides that, I handled merchandise branding where I helped creating ideas for new Elephant Hills merchandising products.

Taking care of the platform www.bio-unterkuenfte.de. Sales and service management, CMS controlling, translating, social media platforms.

As a intern at Papa Musili Safaris in Kanya I have been working in the customer relations and service delivery. I took care of ecological activities in reference to sustainability & resposible travel and I supported the international and local tourism promotion/ marketing team. I worked within the product management, created and coordinated new trips in the destinations Kenya and Tanzania.

Tourism Studies & Theory; Tourism planning; Social Marketing; Environmental challenges of tourism; Hotel management; Food & Beverage. THESIS: The (un)sustainability of hotel breakfast buffets: Food and its potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in the context of tourism.

Tourism and Human Geography, Economics, Management, Sociology, Law. THESIS: Tourism in developing countries - socio-economical analysis at Diani Beach, Kenya,