{"id":247,"date":"2017-03-16T19:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/?p=247\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:34:53","slug":"press-release-elske-doets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/news\/press-release-elske-doets\/","title":{"rendered":"Press release Elske Doets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>March 20, 2017 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>36th Prix Veuve Clicquot goes to the president and owner of Jan Doets America Tours<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ELSKE DOETS BUSINESS WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NOORDWIJK \u2013 Elske Doets has been named Business Woman of the Year 2017. The president and owner of Jan Doets America Tours, a successful direct-sell travel organization specialized in tailor-made holidays to the United States and Canada, was today awarded the prestigious <em>Prix Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Award<\/em> in Noordwijk aan Zee by the Dutch Minister of Defense, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious <em>Prix Veuve Clicquot<\/em> is awarded to outstanding and successful businesswomen and was previously handed out to Anne-Marie Rakhorst, Sylvia T\u00f3th and Francine Houben. Elske Doets is the 36th consecutive businesswoman to be honored in The Netherlands since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The jury is supervised by former minister Annemarie Jorritsma and is empanelled by Hans de Boer, chairman of the employers\u2019 organization VNO NCW, Michael van Straalen, chairman of the organization for small and medium-sized businesses MKB Nederland, Corien Wortman-Kool, chairwoman of the ABP pension fund and Vivienne van Eijkelenborg, Business Woman of the Year 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Elske Doets is the president and owner of Jan Doets America Tours since 2001 and saw the company, which is located in Heerhugowaard, develop with an almost unprecedented growth. According to the jury, Elske Doets made a significant contribution to a positive perception of female entrepreneurship in The Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI greatly value this incredible honor\u201d, Elske Doets said at the ceremony. \u201cWinning the Business Woman of the Year award is totally unexpected for me personally, and I see this entitlement as a recognition for the company and my team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doets was previously awarded the Chairman\u2019s Circle Honors Award Brand, the travel industry\u2019s Oscar for the 50 best travel organizations in the world for the USA as a destination. She is accredited with \u2018discovering\u2019 Canada as a travel destination and has been titled as the official \u2018<em>Mrs. Canada\u2019<\/em> since 1995. A passion for the USA, Canada and her travelers is the key for Doets and her staff. Her business motto is: \u201cDream, dare, do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 20, 2017 36th Prix Veuve Clicquot goes to the president and owner of Jan Doets America Tours ELSKE DOETS BUSINESS WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2017 NOORDWIJK \u2013 Elske Doets has been named Business Woman of the Year 2017. The president and owner of Jan Doets America Tours, a successful direct-sell travel organization specialized in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}