Most luxury travel agents don’t get their start in the supermarket’s frozen foods aisle – but for Helen McEvoy, that’s exactly what happened.
The Birmingham native’s journey in tourism dates back to a university placement at Sainsbury’s, where she shadowed the peas and chips buyer for a summer season.
It was hardly, as Helen puts it, “the height of glamour.”
But it was also her introduction to the world of commercial buying – how products go from the factory to the shelves. “It was so interesting, and it made me think, I could do this job,” Helen told TTG.
