MARIANNE BAARS

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Marianne Baars Hotels are what Marianne Baars has always been passionate about.
A year later she became its Managing Director. Seeing the business opportunities in online booking of hotels, she used the Bookit database to set up weekendjeweg.nl in 2000; a leading booking site for short holiday brakes.

SHE, sponsored by Bizner Bank, features interviews with women entrepreneurs, female internet heroes and discuss marketing to women cases. It is presented by Marianne van Leeuwen of Sisteract and Simone Brummelhuis of

A woman with passion and ambition that has a great amount of perseverance. I see no difference with male entrepreneurs. Building a business takes hard work, guts and perseverance.
She then moved to Paris to manage a programme for several luxury hotels including Le George V and Le Plaza Athénée.It was a challenging job that enabled Marianne to gain experience of telemarketing and motivation techniques.

It also gave her the opportunity to become fluent in French.In 1997, Marianne returned to the Netherlands joining Bookit as Commercial Manager.
Marianne now lives in Amsterdam and enjoys training to keep fit, travelling and discovering new cities. As a result, she knows the places to be in many European cities.