{"id":3413,"date":"2022-02-08T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:12:22","slug":"j-mak-hospitality-grows-team-with-the-addition-of-meg-kelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/articles\/3413","title":{"rendered":"J.MAK HOSPITALITY GROWS TEAM WITH THE ADDITION OF MEG KELLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Meg Kelley rejoins J.MAK to increase its reach to travel agents across the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.MAK HOSPITALITY announces the addition of Meg Kelley to its sales team, to enhance its reach to travel advisors across the U.S. and to support\u200b its global portfolio of partners. J.MAK HOSPITALITY represents some of the world\u2019s finest luxury boutique hotels, villa collections, destination management companies, and private aviation companies.<img alt=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b\u201cWe&#8217;ve seen incredible demand for our travel partners, and the J.MAK portfolio has grown considerably over the last year, so the time was right to expand our team again,\u201d says founder Jon \u201cJ.MAK\u201d\u200b Makhmaltchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt J.MAK, we focus on fostering real relationships between our partners and advisor friends, so when we grow the team it\u2019s purposeful,\u201d says Makhmaltchi. \u201cMeg is fantastic, and has worked with J.MAK before, so we were excited to bring her back to enhance our reach even more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.MAK HOSPITALITY has made a name for itself by creating fun and innovative ways to connect with travel advisors. In 2020, Makhmaltchi made house calls in his MAK.MOBILE winnebago to advisors who suddenly found themselves working remotely. Last month \u201cThe J.MAK 1000\u201d robot joined the team to travel to meetings and events (with Makhmaltchi broadcasting to its screen) when the rest of the team can\u2019t be there in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelley, who will be known as MEG.KE, joins J.MAK as a 15-year veteran of the hospitality industry. She worked at J.MAK partner hotel, the Inn at Perry Cabin, as well as with other luxury brands including Fairmont Hotels &amp; Resorts, Belmond and Sea Island Resort. Her experience on-property spans several departments &#8211; from Front Office to Operations, Catering &amp; Conference Services to Sales &#8211; offering a well-rounded compliment to the J.MAK team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelley will be based in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Kelley rejoins J.MAK to increase its reach to travel agents across the U.S. J.MAK HOSPITALITY announces the addition of Meg Kelley to its sales team, to enhance its reach to travel advisors across the U.S. and to support\u200b its global portfolio of partners. J.MAK HOSPITALITY represents some of the world\u2019s finest luxury boutique hotels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Meg_Kelley_headshot__01-scaled.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoteliersweb.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}