It come as the B-Corp operator grows its marketing team with the addition of Jamie-Lee Abtar as marketing manager and Angela Chen as senior marketing manager.

McGuire joins Intrepid with 17 years’ experience in senior commercial, marketing, and general management positions across the travel and transport industries. She has held roles with Flight Centre Travel Group touring brands Topdeck Travel and Back Roads Touring as well as Big Bus Tours.
 

Based in the company’s Brixton office, she will be responsible for providing leadership in UK and Ireland, implementing strategic plans, managing day-to-day business and ensuring the company achieves its goals.

She will report to EMEA managing director Zina Bencheikh, who is taking on an expanded remit, looking after the company’s destination management companies in the region as well as the UK business, and lead expansion into new European markets. 

McGuire said: "I’ve long admired Intrepid Travel – its product, the brand, the company’s B Corp status and its commitment to sustainable travel and focus on giving back to the communities and destinations it visits.

"The team is in a great place, having been led through Covid by Zina, and I look forward to working with such a passionate group of people to lead Intrepid Travel in its next phase of growth in the UK market." 
 

Bencheikh said: "I’m excited to have Hazel join the team. The UK has been stronger than other markets to recover from the market – in fact it is currently our top source market globally, in no small part thanks to our agent partners."