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TravelAdvocates—a hotel site selection company based in Hoboken, New Jersey—has hired Sheelagh Wylie as director of Global Sales. Wylie will be responsible for new business development for the tour and travel markets.
“We are ecstatic to have Sheelagh join our growing team,” said TravelAdvocates president and owner, Robert Miller.
Wylie’s experience in tourism marketing and sales for attractions, destinations, and shopping tourism venues spans almost twenty years. Prior to joining TravelAdvocates, Wylie was director of Tourism and Groups at Xanadu Meadowlands, the ultimate experiential entertainment, shopping and dining destination, which was scheduled to open in East Rutherford, New Jersey in 2009.
Wylie’s travel industry experience includes destination marketing and sales at the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and the New Jersey Division of Travel and Tourism, tourism marketing consulting to The Mall at Short Hills, and director of Sales USA for Merlin Entertainment Groups’ Midway Attractions responsible for sales for Madame Tussauds attractions in New York, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and Hollywood and the Legoland Discovery Center in Schaumburg, Illinois.
After living for many years in Hoboken, New Jersey, best known as the birthplace of Frank Sinatra and TravelAdvocates’ corporate office, Wylie now lives with her family in Weehawken, New Jersey very near to the site of the famous 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Wylie graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Spanish.
