APT, PTS, Vintage Travel: this week’s travel trade people moves

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APT, PTS, Vintage Travel: this week’s travel trade people moves

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Sarah Dennis

28 August 2024

TTG’s weekly digest of all the latest travel trade people moves – appointments, promotions, restructurings and farewells – is the essential round-up you need to keep abreast of who’s moved in the industry, and where.

TTG's people moves digest is published every Wednesday

Moves this week see Vintage Travel take on a new overseas operations and commercial manager, while APT and Travelmarvel have promoted two members of the group’s sales team after a significant growth push.

Elsewhere, Protected Trust Services is hopeful of bolstering its commercial relationships after hiring a new commercial and partnerships manager.

So here are the latest major travel trade hires, promotions and job moves over the past week (Wednesday 21 August to Wednesday 28 August).

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APT sales team promotions after 'significant' trade growth

APT and Travelmarvel have promoted two members of its sales team after the group reported significant growth in sales from the trade. Former national account manager Robin Griffiths becomes APT’s national partnerships manager with a focus on enhancing trade partnerships with marketing investment, product training, fam trips and commercial opportunities. Becky Baumbach, meanwhile, will become national sales manager after her success in retail and homeworker sales. She will work with APT’s three regional business development managers while overseeing relations with consortia. The pair will take up their new roles on 2 September.

Commercial lead switches between villa brands

Former Solmar Villas commercial lead Gary Horsford has been appointed overseas operations and commercial manager at Vintage Travel. Posting on LinkedIn, Horsford said he was “pleased to be part of the team to continue to secure high standard properties within the existing destinations as well as destination expansion". Horsford will work alongside suppliers and owners to expand Vintage Travel's portfolio across all destinations, but with a particular focus on mainland Greece and its islands. Horsford previously spent 20 years with the new defunct James Villas brand, where he rose to head of commercial before joining Solmar.

Protected Trust Services names new partnerships manager

Protected Trust Services (PTS) has named Miya Gilritchie as its new commercial and partnerships manager, replacing previous commercial manager Emma Taylor. Gilritchie will be responsible for negotiating supplier commercial agreements for PTS members and working with the company’s expanded marketing team to grow brand awareness. Gilritchie’s previous roles include key account manager for Bedsonline and regional account manager for Travel Cube. She was also previously Attraction World's business development manager for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North East.

Purpose Travel grows team as fellow TC steps in

Luxury and sustainable travel specialist Purpose Travel, part of Travel Counsellors, has taken on a fellow TC to help "elevate the agency's concierge levels", director Ellie Adamo said posting on LinkedIn. Melanie Lycett has been assisting with Purpose Travel's post-booking queries, helping with "little touches such as arranging private taxi transfers to emailing hotels for special occasion bookings and even restaurant reservations", Adamo, a TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassador Class of 2023 and speaker at TTG's Fairer Travel Month, elaborated. Lycett joined Travel Counsellors in 2023 after 15 years with Nottingham Building Society.

CT Travel Group names head of people and culture

CT Travel Group, parent company of Pettitts Travel, has named Caroline Everard its new head of people and culture. Everard will oversee people and culture strategy for all of CT Travel Group’s brands – including Pettitts, Trade Missions, MICE and Business Travel – and has a track record of driving employee engagement across a variety of sectors including banking, insurance and accountancy.