New IHG Sales and Marketing director for Spain

The InterContinental Hotels Group has appointed María José Escudero new Sales and Marketing director for Spain.

Escudero will be in full charge of the Sales and Marketing department for the Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Express by Holiday Inn in the whole of the national territory, but will also continue working as head of Sales Manager of the Holiday Inn in Valencia, according to the Group’s information.

Prior to this appointment, Escudero, who has developed great part of her career at the InterContinental Group, held the Sales Manager position of the Group in Spain, after which she worked as Assistant Commercial Manager of the Hotel Castellana InterContinental Castellana Madrid, and has been head of the Commercial Department of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Valencia for the last five years.

María José Escudero is a specialist in Business and Touristic Activities and has given postgraduate courses on Hotel Management at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and at Cornell University.