Interface Tourism France
Your Interface to the French Market
- Markets covered: France, Switzerland
- Thanks to the loyalty of our clients over the past 10 years we are firmly established as the leading tourism marketing agency in the French market : more than 50 clients from all 5 continents have placed their trust in us.
- Since 2000 we have applied our unique technical know-how and enjoyed unique proximity to industry opinion leaders.
- Central offices ideally located in the tourist heart of Paris – a networking centre for media and trade thanks to monthly in-house events such as our “After Work Interface” or our “Media Workshops” which we organize throughout the year in our now famous “Interface Garden”.
- We maintain a media database of 65.000 journalists and bloggers and a trade database of 20.000 contacts (TO, TA, MICE…).
- Unique expertise in organising B2B and PR Events: we are France's leading organiser of workshops & roadshows.
- A highly professional team at your service including 27 employees, 6 interns and 3 freelancers.
Interface Tourism Community France
The agency has developed its own online B2B platform (a professional press room and a trade corner) to promote its clients to journalists, tour operators, travel agents and MICE agencies.
The agency also uses its own corporate social network pages to keep their tourist media and professional friends updated on the latest client news!
Address
Interface Tourism France
11, bis Rue Blanche
75009 PARIS
France
Tel : + 33 (0)1 53 25 11 11
Fax : + 33 (0)1 53 25 11 12
Affiliation
Contacts
Gaël de La Porte du Theil - President
After many journeys around the world and some initial years experience in the hospitality business and tour operating, Gaël joined the Pierre & Vacances group, participating in the creation of varius “3rd generation” ski resorts in the Alps and seaside spots. In 971 he began to manage & develop the Avoriaz ski resort, he co-created and directed the International Film Festival of the Fantastic which rapidly became France's 2nd most important movie festival after Cannes. He went on to occupy several managing positions in the Pierre & Vacances group and then became General Director of its tourism branch.
He became French Vice-President of the National Association of Ski Resorts and President of the National Association of Tourism Residences and participated in the creation of the “Maison de la France” (the French National Tourism Board), becoming a Board Member in 1987. Then, as President and CEO, he merged 3 major French Tour Operators Airtour, Touropa, Cruisair and, five years later, he added Air France’s subsidiary SOTAIR to create Jet Tour. He became Vice-President of the National Association of Travel Agencies and Vice-President of the International Federation of Tour Operating (IFTO). In 1996, Gaël became an independent consultant and also Marketing Professor in the Tourism Department of the Marne-La-Vallée University.
In the year 2000 he created Interface Tourism which 10 years later has become a renowned international group of more than 60 full-time employees across Europe.
Gaël’s hobbies include golf, opera, politics & history and his 3 homes are Paris, the South of France and the entire planet !
Blaise Borezee - Chief Operating Officer
Blaise obtained a Post Graduate Degree in Tourism Management from Toulouse Business School (EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB Accredited) and DDB Travel & Tourism Agency, as well as a Master in Management from Paris' Dauphine University (EQUIS Accredited) and a Bachelor Degree in Chinese Language and Civilization from the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations.
Passionate for Asian countries, Blaise started his career in Asia and worked in Taiwan and Hong Kong from 1998 to 2000 as an expert in Economic and Social Sciences Studies for the French Institute for Asian Societies. He then moved to Paris to participate as Sales and Communication Manager in the launch of CCM, an online start-up company specialized in webcasting services.
Blaise entered Tourism in 2002 as Promotion Manager for Wolters Kluwer Group, a domestic multimedia publishing company responsible for some of France's leading professional Tourism magazines, Icotour, Tour Hebdo, etc…
Blaise joined Interface Tourism in 2005 as Country Manager for the Taiwan Tourism Bureau and was rapidly given new responsibilities as Director of the Asia/Pacific Department, managing the PR & Marketing activities of the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Australia and Taiwan in the French market.
In 2008, Blaise was nominated Marketing Director of the company with responsibility for strategy and for the implementation of trade and consumer promotional activities. Highly motivated by client satisfaction, Blaise blends his discerning knowledge of marketing tools (print / outdoor / digital / events…) with innovation to create results-oriented campaigns. During his 8 years experience in the industry, he has established a broad range of contacts and partnerships in and outside the tourism community. A strong believer in synergies and teamwork, Blaise is at the helm of the smooth circulation of information, brainstorming and the training of the French team.
