Geoffrey Weill Associates, Inc.


	What's New

	OCTOBER 2008: On the last day of October 2008, what was known for 15 years as Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa) has adopted a new name in line with its global expansion: &BEYOND. SEPTEMBER 2008: NEW CLIENT WEILL has been engaged by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to oversee Thailand's tourism public relations in the United States. SUMMER 2008: NEW CLIENTS WEILL has been appointed to represent the soon-to-be-opened ALGODON MANSION in Buenos Aires, a new luxury boutique hotel; ITALY BY VINTAGE CAR, that is offering a wholly new and exciting way of seeing Italy. DECEMBER 2007: NEW CLIENT WEILL has been appointed to represent the 18 ultra-luxury AMAN RESORTS worldwide. Marking its 20^th anniversary in 2008, Aman Resorts owns and operates resorts in Bora Bora, Bhutan, Cambodia, the French Alps, India, Indonesia, Morocco, the Phillippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turks & Caicos and the United States. Aman has developed the ne plus ultra in terms of the guest experience -- that is considered, quite simply, the ultimate in the world of hospitality. *SEPTEMBER 2007: NEW CLIENTS* In an unprecedented burst of expansion, nine new clients have come aboard in the last three months, including: AQUA EXPEDITIONS, PERUVIAN AMAZON ASHFORD CASTLE, IRELAND HOTEL BEAU RIVAGE-PALACE, LAUSANNE HOTEL BALTSCHUG KEMPINKSI, MOSCOW BORA BORA CRUISES, TAHITI CIRAGAN PALACE KEMPINSKI HOTEL, ISTANBUL HOTEL MERRION, DUBLIN KEMPINSKI HOTEL MOIKA 22, ST. PETERSBURG** MARCH 2007: NEW CLIENT Jet Airways, India's premier airline, has appointed us to handle US public relations. Founded in 1993, Jet Airways is India's largest privately-owned airline with a young fleet of the latest Boeing and Airbus aircraft, including the advanced Boeing 777-200 and Boeing 737-900. Jet Airways' route system covers some 60 cities in India, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and Nepal - and it operates nonstop flights from four Indian cities to London. Service to the United States will commence in 2007. JANUARY 2007: NEW CLIENT We have been appointed public relations representative for Orient-Express Trains and Cruises. The classic "Orient-Express" train - the Venice-Simplon Orient Express traverses Europe. The Royal Scotsman and Northern Belle provide elegant train-cruises in Scotland, Wales and England; the Eastern & Oriental Express traverses Indochina and Southeast Asia; the Road to Mandalay cruises the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar-Burma; and a variety of luxury barges sail the waterways of Burgundy and Languedoc-Roussillon. OCTOBER 2006: NEW CLIENT We have been appointed public relations representative for the new H�tel Fouquet�s Barri�re, opening on Paris� Avenue des Champs-Elys�es on November 1. The new hotel is the first �palace hotel� to open in Paris in almost eighty years -- since the Hotel Georges V was unveiled in 1928. Its cornerstone is Le Fouquet�s restaurant, a Paris legend since its opening in 1899, and a listed landmark of �monument historique� status. �I first visited Paris when I was eight years old,� says Geoffrey Weill, �and my parents took me to Fouquet�s whose splendor I have never forgotten; so it�s especially exciting for us to be involved in the launch of this truly grand Parisian hotel.� AUGUST 2006: NEW CLIENT Israel's Ministry of Tourism has reappointed WEILL to take on its public relations portfolio, effective August 1. The appointment comes after six-months of research by the Ministry, and a formal bid process. WEILL is no newcomer to Israel: we handled the Ministry's PR needs from 1995 through 2003. Since the fall of 2004 the Ministry handled its public relations needs in house. NOVEMBER 2005: The WEILL "team" celebrate the company's tenth anniversary at a gala dinner at New York's Chanterelle restaurant. OCTOBER 2005: Milan�s elegant HOTEL PRINCIPE DI SAVOIA engaged WEILL to undertake a three-month Public Relations project in the United States. �Grande Dame of Milan�s hotels, the Principe di Savoia opened in 1927 and is a member of the DORCHESTER HOTELS GROUP.. JULY 2005: Cindy Adams, celebrity columnist described Geoffrey Weill has her "favorite traveling companion" in the summer issue of Gotham magazine: MAY 2005: Our president, Geoffrey Weill, received an invitation from the United States Embassy in Kabul to come to Afghanistan for three weeks to survey tourism sites and facilities throughout the country and to come up with recommendations for tourism to the "new" Afghanistan. "It was very flattering to have been identified as the right person for such a task," says Geoffrey Weill. But after a review of the security situation, the State Department's dire warnings to Americans not to visit the country and the embassy's "expression of regret" that - as an independent contractor - there would be no security arrangements, Geoffrey decided - with regret - to decline the invitation. APRIL 2005: This month we were given the challenge of publicizing The March of the Living, the annual gathering at Auschwitz that brings thousands (this year a record 18,000 - including thousands of Christians and Muslims) to Poland to walk the route from Auschwitz to the death camp at Birkenau. It was a two-week PR project and the response was extraordinary - with press clippings totalling 16 million+ circulation, coverage by all the networks, FOX and CNN, plus a Wolf Blitzer CNN interview with one of the march's luminaries, Elie Wiesel.