Brian Kotula Joins Travel Tripper’s Expanding Sales Team

Brian Kotula, well-known in New York City hospitality technology circles, has joined online reservation solution company, Travel Tripper, where, he says, “They are leading the future of online booking technology.”

Kotula’s appreciation for the way better information allied with technology can improve revenue management practices is part of what brings him to Travel Tripper. As one of the first team members at HotelREVMax, Kotula had been instrumental in providing the daily occupancy and RevPAR information that revolutionized the hotel industry. He sees a similar kind of innovation in Travel Tripper’s online distribution approach.

“The kinds of capabilities Travel Tripper has built into the new version of the RezTrip booking engine are going to change hotel revenue management forever,” Kotula explains. “When you can use information about a prospective booker to offer up targeted offers through a booking engine—what Travel Tripper calls the Dynamic Pricing Module—you are going to a whole new level of revenue generation. Hotels who don’t have this capability through their booking engines are going to be at a severe disadvantage to those who do.”

In addition to his time as Regional Vice President of Sales for HotelREVMax, Kotula served as Vice President of Business Development and Sales, Northeastern United States, for Luxe Worldwide Hotels. Most recently he was Director of Sales and Corporate Marketing Manager at Open Hospitality.

Brian is a good fit for Travel Tripper, Gautam Lulla, Travel Tripper’s Chief Operating Officer explains, because he “didn’t want to sell just another booking engine and made sure that RezTrip offered something new, different and truly beneficial to potential customers before joining us. A sales person that looks to add real value to his customers through the products and services he sells is exactly what we were looking for.”

As in the past, Kotula will be serving the national market but is proud of his extensive New York City roots. Having earned his master’s degree in Hospitality Studies and Asset Management at NYU’s Tisch Center for Hospitality, Travel, Tourism and Sports Management, he helped found the NYU Tisch Center Alumni Society and served as its first president in 2005-06. In 2007, he started NYU’s first Hospitality Alumni Mentorship program.

Kotula is an active member of the Greater New York Chapter of Hospitality, Sales, and Marketing Association International (HSMAI), where he served as its president from 2002-04.