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Peter Fankhauser, Thomas Cook
Former Thomas Cook boss Fankhauser returns to travel
Frankhauser, who has reportedly been appointed chair of German travel firm itravel, was at the helm of Thomas Cook Group when it collapsed four years ago
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Tui staff reach 10,000 days of remote working abroad
Tui Group launched its flexible ‘Workwide’ scheme a year ago
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Women in Travel and Google launch employability scheme
The partnership will support 10 disadvantaged, unemployed women find roles in travel and tourism
Top London Agencies
Swords Travel seeks new luxury travel experts
The new hires will join the agency under its associate scheme in December 2022 and grow its ranks to 20
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Crystal Cruises appoints Brandon Townsley as new trade lead
Townsley joins the line as its new vice-president of sales and trade partnerships
Lee Ainsworth and Mark Pullen
Advantage announces senior promotions for Ainsworth and Pullen
Lee Ainsworth will take up the newly created position of head of operations for The Advantage Travel Partnership and Mark Pullen has been appointed trading and operations manager for Advantage Holidays
Barrhead president Jacqueline Dobson won the Contribution to Travel award at the TTG Top 50 Travel Agencies 2021
Barrhead to create 50 new jobs with apprenticeship programme relaunch
Jacqueline Dobson, president of Barrhead Travel, started her career in travel through an apprenticeship scheme
Matias Lira, Crystal Cruises
Crystal Cruises appoints Matias Lira as vice president of sales
He has previously held roles with Norwegian Cruise Line and Silversea Cruises
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Intrepid Travel appoints new UK and Ireland general manager
Hazel McGuire has been appointed to the newly created role while Jamie-Lee Abtar takes up the position of marketing manager
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Wizz Air appoints new group chief financial officer
It comes after the airline’s current group chief financial officer Jourik Hooghe decided to step down to pursue ‘other opportunities’
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Mandarin Oriental announces global sales appointments
The hotel group has announced three senior global sales appointments, including a UK-based position
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Riviera Travel bolsters trade team with two new appointments
Martin Page will join the company as key account manager and Ashley Walker will join as agency sales administrator
Latin Routes welcomes agent applications for Academy in Peru
Three new recruits join 'hugely successful' Latin Routes training scheme
The operator says it has already received ’many applications’ for the initiative, and taken on three new recruits
TTG chief executive Daniel Pearce was joined by Gold Medal managing director Simon Applebaum, Designer Travel managing director Amanda Matthews and ITT director of education Claire Steiner
'Lack of experienced supplier staff still impacting call wait times'
Simon Applebaum, managing director of Gold Medal, said despite the firm increasing staff numbers in its call centres, rehiring experienced workers is proving an issue
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Serenity Holidays appoints Barnaville and Eagle to senior roles
Chris Barnaville will join as head of product and commercial and Vicky Eagle as marketing manager
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Almost half of UK aviation staff considering leaving due to 'poor pay'
A survey revealed more than half of airport and airline workers (58.3%) said their reason for wanting to leave is their pay
Embarking on a sailing adventure with Golden Horizon
Ex-Tradewind sales boss Schmitt joins Fred Olsen Travel
The former Tradewind Voyages sales lead announced his new position as project manager on Friday (22 July)
The cases relate to passengers who opted not to travel against government travel advice
Ryanair reaches agreement with European pilots over post-Covid pay
The deals with the SEPLA and SNPL unions deliver accelerated pay restoration and future improvements to pay in each year up to March 2027
Travel's gender pay gap fell further during the pandemic (Credit: Kobu Agency / Unsplash)
WTTC says Europe’s tourism sector vacancies ‘threaten recovery’
Call to fill Europe’s 1.2 million tourism vacancies
Candidate numbers fell to lowest level in six months
Travel placements remain at 'historic high' despite dip
The number of candidates placed in new travel jobs fell in June, but remained at ’historically high levels’
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TTNG roll out apprenticeship scheme to members
The new scheme will allow agents to recruit new talent to upskill existing teams
Kristy Garnett and Ross East
TTNG promotes East and Garnett to senior roles
Ross East will become The Travel Network Group’s new group marketing director and Kristy Garnett will take on the role of head of marketing
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Travel Counsellors appoints new finance chief
Mat Hanson will replace Neil Barnes, who has been interim chief financial officer since February
HAL will deploy Westerdam to Japan in the new year
HAL and Seabourn confirm call centre team promotions
The moves come under the management of Sarah-Jane Jacobs, who was also recently promoted from UK contact centre manager to UK & Europe senior contact centre manager