Eric LABAT
CHARGE DE BILLING ET DE REVENUE ASSURANCE, TRANSATEL
Last Christmas I passed a Master's Degree in Event Management at the ESTHUA, France. My major was marketing and finances pertaining to Event Management, and my minor was Quality Control Management. Therein, I wrote a monograph which helped setting the very first national quality label in tourism compreheding various tourism activities. I grew up in a small town of Brittany, France. Then I studied in many cities, including Paris, Angers, Rouen, and now New York, where I am working for the French Government, doing market surveys and e-marketing. I have achieved my studies and am now looking for a job as of next fall. Either in France, or in the United States, or... wherever! My interests plainly meet what I loved studying : statistics, mathematics, data analysis, marketing, e-marketing and finances. But above all, what really thrills me out is taking part in activities where I am given the opportunity to analyse a given situation for a company or a market, draw strategic lines and trends, make recommendations, and provide other people with my results, based on statistics, mathematics and marketing data. That is why, in the long term, I could see myself working with consultants, or for an organization in which I can develop my skills on analysis and marketing.
90 contacts2007 - 2007Maison De La France / the French Government Tourist Office is the only French organization promoting France abroad as a tourist destination by means of its many Offices located worldwide. I was assigned to the New York Office for a 6-month internship to assist the Deputy Director for Strategy and Research in his regular marketing duties (e-marketing, online surveys, benchmarking) and on the writing of a brand new 2007 market survey on The American Market, the results of which are to be sold to Maison De La France's partners in France so they can be well informed of the various newest trends of American travelers to France and adjust their offer to them.
2005 - 2005From January to March 2005 I was hired by the French Ministry of Tourism for a 3-month internship. I was in charge of sorting all existing quality labels, operations and rankings throughout all French tourist sectors (hotels, restaurants, camp sites, convention centers...), in order to set up the very first French national quality label pertaining to various tourist organizations at the same time. My work consisted in confronting the items and selection patterns of all available organizations and companies, amalgamate them into one comprehensive pattern, and suggest that pattern to my managing staff. It was background work, which I really enjoyed taking part in, especially since it made me use my skills in searching, sorting out and analysing quantitative as well as qualitative data. The outcome : the brand new "Qualite Tourisme" quality label, which the French Ministry was now to apply and advertise for.
2005 - 2005From October 2005 to Christmas 2005 I was hired by the Regional Tourist Board of Normandy for a 3-month internship. I was in charge of experimenting on the field the "Qualite Tourisme" quality label I had worked on several months before. Therein, the regional "Normandie Qualite Tourisme" quaity label was a dedicated target for the national label. During 3 months, I was in charge of amalgamating the regional label to the national one, so as to make it disappear while having the numerous regional-label subscribers trust the national one, which was quite unheard of at that time. During times of negociations and advertising actions, we could eventually find a way to apply the national label to that particular region of France, and then make it a wider-range operation by implementing it to other regions. The detailed technical patterns and schemes on how to apply the national label to regional ones, is described on the monograph I wrote in 2006.