New General Manager at Club La Santa

From August 1 2011, the sales- and marketing director Niels Feerup from Lalandia will be leading the Danish owned sports- and family resort Club La Santa in Lanzarote. He will be substituting Leif Rasmussen who will retire after 18 years as the general manager of this successful resort.

A generation change is on the way at Club La Santa after 18 years with Leif Rasmussen as the general manager.

As of August 1, Niels Feerup will take over the task as general manager of this popular sports- and family resort on the Canary island Lanzarote. He will use his skills learned as sales- and marketing director of Lalandia since 2008 to keep developing Club La Santa in a positive way.

I know the company well and I am myself a sports enthusiast. I look very much forward to coming to Club La Santa and the challenges this company will face in the near future, states the 45 year old Niels Feerup, who will pack up and move to Lanzarote when entering his new position.

Investments to assure continuous growth.
Club La Santa is about expand the resort as well as upgrading the existing apartments and facilities for approximately 300 million Danish crowns. The building permit for a new 4 star hotel due to open in 2013 has finally been issued, and simultaneous to the new building, the existing apartments will be refurbished along with the improvement of the sports facilities in order to increase the growth.

The timing of the expansion of Club La Santa is ideal observing the general development in European countries, where fitness is becoming the number one sport in the countries and people in general are more focused on health, states Niels Feerup who has taken part of the development of the new Lalandia resort in Billund.

Great profit in 2010
During the existence of Club La Santa since 1983, the development has been nothing but positive for Club La Santa.

Last year the company showed a profit over 12 million Danish crowns, and the hotel occupancy average rate was 75 % for the existing 400 apartments. Even though we are making great investments at the moment in buildings and facilities, we hope for the positive development to continue, says the president of the board of directors of Club La Santa, Jan Vinther Laursen.

Leif Rasmussen stays on as director for the new building project for at least another year before he retires.

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Learn Spanish at CLS!

FROM CLS:

We’ve got a brand new offering at Club La Santa with the chance to come and learn Spanish on your next break.

Working alongside a local language school, we can offer a flexible course for all levels, be that beginner, intermediate or advanced.

Heloise Bonvoisin will lead the lessons and there is no minimum number of participants for each group.

All she asks is that you are able to come a minimum of 5 hours a week, which can be divided over a few morning and are flexible to meet the group’s needs. We may be able to move these to the afternoon is the group requires.

Lessons will take place in the Conference Centre.

The cost of the course is 80€ – so if you’re in a group of 20, this works out at only 4€ per person for the entire course.

One-to-one lessons are available at 20€ per hour.

As with all other activities, these Spanish courses will be organized/coordinated by the Groups Department.

Ny direktør i spidsen for Club La Santa

Fra den 1. august står Lalandias salgs- og marketingdirektør, Niels Feerup, i spidsen for
det danskejede sports- og familiecenter Club La Santa på Lanzarote. Han skal videreføre
Club La Santas store succes, når Leif Rasmussen takker af efter 18 år i direktørstolen.

Efter 18 år med Leif Rasmussen som direktør for Club La Santa er der nu et generationsskifte på vej.
Den 1. august overtager Niels Feerup posten i det populære sports- og familiecenter på den spanske
ø Lanzarote. Her skal han bl.a. bruge sine erfaringer fra Lalandia, hvor han har været salgs- og
marketingdirektør siden 2008, til at sikre en fortsat positiv udvikling for Club La Santa.

- Jeg kender virksomheden rigtigt godt og har selv en stor interesse for idræt, så jeg ser frem til at
komme til Club La Santa, som står over for nogle spændende udfordringer de kommende år, fortæller
45-årige Niels Feerup, der flytter til Lanzarote i forbindelse med jobskiftet.

Investering skal sikre fortsat vækst
Club La Santa står over for en udvidelse og renovering af stedets faciliteter for 300 millioner kr.
Byggetilladelsen til et nyt 4-stjernet hotel, der skal stå færdigt i 2013, er netop faldet på plads, og
samtidig renoveres de nuværende lejligheder, og idrætsfaciliteterne udvides for at højne niveauet
yderligere og styrke væksten.

- Timingen af udvidelsen er helt rigtig for Club La Santa i forhold til den generelle udvikling i Danmark,
hvor fitness er ved at blive den største folkeidræt i landet, og der generelt er en større sundheds-
bevidsthed blandt befolkningen, fortæller Niels Feerup, der i Lalandia blandt andet har medvirket til
udviklingen af det nye feriecenter i Billund.

Stort overskud i 2010
Udviklingen er de sidste mange år kun gået én vej for Club La Santa siden opstarten i 1983.
- Virksomheden havde sidste år et overskud på over 12 millioner kr. efter skat, og belægnings-
procenten var på 75 pct. på de 400 eksisterende lejligheder. Selv om vi nu foretager en stor
investering i bygninger og idrætsfaciliteter, skal den positive udvikling gerne fortsætte, fortæller
Jan Vinther Laursen, bestyrelsesformand for Club La Santa.

Leif Rasmussen fortsætter som ansvarlig på byggeprojektet i foreløbig et år, før han går på pension.