Team - ILMC - Innovative Leisure Management Corporation

The Innovative Team

Kritsana Harasarn
Director
Better known as Khun Nong, Kritsana has been involved in the travel industry for close to 20 years. She sits on the board of Khiri Destination Management Company and Khiri Voyages. Khun Nong is a prolific Thai-lanuguage writer, and passionate marketeer.

Willem Niemeijer
Managing Director
Willem started his career in the tourism sector in the mid-1980s at NBBS Travel, a large travel agency in the Netherlands, combining his work there with several more trips to Southeast Asia. He moved to Bangkok l in 1987, the year of the successful Amazing Thailand campaign.

The early 1990s saw the careful opening of Laos for tourists, the UN-led elections in Cambodia and the lifting of the US trade embargo on Vietnam. Willem Niemeijer used this time to forge contacts in the region, and co-founded Khiri Travel in a hotel room in Bangkok in 1994.

A consummate entrepreneur, Willem is often on the road promoting current businesses and exploring possibilities for new ventures. While not traveling, he lives in Nonthaburi with his wife Kritsana and their two lovely daughters, Marsha and Naomi.

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Frans Betgem
Principal and Executive Director
Frans graduated in Contemporary History at the University of Amsterdam, and subsequently made his first trip to Southeast Asia in 1987. Subsequently, he has led over fifty small group tours through Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia.

Frans Betgem co-founded Khiri Travel in 1994 with the aim to create a travel company specialized in delivering innovative and socially responsible tours in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Currently, Frans is a Director on the Board of the Khiri Group.

When not working, Frans takes care of a small private zoo with his wife Kai. He is a keen cyclist and hiker.

Issara Ritchum
Interim Finance Manager