Our History

It’s fair to say that the origin of OUT Consulting Group is the career path of our co-founder Guilherme Pinto … for the purpose of this history at least, if we start with Big Bang we risk missing the point. We´ll share it in first person.

In 2019 I resigned from my role at Marriott in the UAE. Not a bad time to resign after winning best comercial team and best sales individual results for Middle East and Africa for Marriott (more than 1 hotel in the region. Pinkie Promise). I worked in some of the top hotel brands before this, from Walt Disney World Resorts to Starwood, Meliá, Hyatt and Viceroy.

For many great reasons, I came back home (Portugal) with my family and opened a consultancy company. Not the most “risk it all entrepreneurship” start as I had a nice consultancy project agreed with Manchester City beforehand. This project was the start, it was followed by other additional projects in tourism.

From our early contact with independent hotels in Portugal, we were able to understand that the 80% year on year growth we brought to our main hotel partner, was a reflection of lack of commercial resources and talent pool. Being great commercial minds, this was definitely a need for us to address. And so the idea of OUT CG started to unfold.

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Empowering independent hotels

People Strong Sales Team

People Strong Marketing Team

People Revenue Team

100's

Strong Team above Property Support

This was the size of my proactive commercial team on the last hotel property I managed.

And that is where we add value!

Our Outstanding team has the talent, reach and knowledge to outperform hotels who do not currently have the resources to actively manage an ever changing hotel commercial landscape.