Tom Kiely

Tom Kiely began his hotel career with the San Francisco Hilton Hotel & Towers as a trainee and eventually Sales Manager. He later joined Fairmont Hotels as Sales Manager and was promoted to Director of Sales to open new Fairmont Hotel in Denver at age 27. He was promoted again to Director of Sales of the headquarters hotel, The Fairmont in San Francisco. Tom was recruited by Hyatt Resorts to be the Director of Sales and Marketing of the Hyatt Regency Maui. He was promoted to Director of Marketing for the Hyatt Resorts of Hawaii group of hotels, turned around the hotel's reputation as one of the worst performing Hyatt hotels to reaching the top ten in the company. 

In 1988, Tom started new business, Television, Events and Marketing Inc., producing events, television and media for the purpose of promoting and marketing tourism/resort destinations. Tom produced 300+ national and international television shows, has won 47 Emmy and Telly Awards for television production excellence, and consulted and designed tourism marketing strategies for Hawaii resorts, Lake Tahoe, Tahiti, New Zealand, Enchantment Resort, the Bahamas, Hyatt Resorts and others.

In 1996, Tom created the new sport of off-road multi-sport endurance competition, XTERRA. He grew the XTERRA World Tour to 300+ events in 35 countries. In 2019, Tom started his new business, www.ActiveTravelVideos.com, to tap into the growing high value active travel and experiential travel market.