PHILIPP STRÄSSLE

Successful entrepreneurial management activity with own company in South America. Extensive know-how in customer acquisition and support, many years of experience as product manager of special tours, proven experience in the organization of complex travel processes. Intensive and worldwide travel activities.

Since 2020
Founder and Managing Director of RiSA Reisen & Consulting AG

2000 – 2019
Founder and CEO of ILS – Incentive & Leisure Services, DMC for Argentina and South America. Set up and overall responsibility for the commercial success of the company. Customer acquisition via B2B in Europe, USA/Canada, South Africa and part of Asia. Head of operations- and team leadership. In 2018, sale of the company; until the end of 2019, strategic support of the new owners.

1994 – 2000
Product Manager “private jet flight-cruise” Hotelplan Switzerland. Concept development and overall responsibility for planning, purchasing, organization including operational execution of “flight cruises” worldwide.

1991 – 1994
Tour guide worldwide, Hotelplan Switzerland

1990 – 1991
Product Manager Caribbean, Hotelplan Switzerland. Responsible for hotel purchasing, brochure production and internal destination training.

1988 – 1990
South America Sabbatical

1986 – 1988
Sales representative American Airlines, Geneva. Opening of the sales office and responsibility for sales in French-speaking Switzerland.