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Melanie Wood and Sarah Finch will join the team as well as Nick Johnson, who has been promoted from the leisure sales department

Wages for a ’typical new job’ in travel have risen by a 13% since before the pandemic, according to new data

Bunting has more than 16 years of experience across both agent and operator sectors

Rachael Stone and Andrew Steward will join the brand as head of product and head of digital transformation, respectively

Xian Mayes brings with her 20 years experience in HR

Kimberly Glynn will join the luxury cruise retailer as part of the brand’s plans to more than double the size of its team

She has previously held roles with Newmarket Holidays, Thomas Cook, Page and Moy and Solo’s Holidays

Abercrombie & Kent has launched an apprenticeships and internships for new starters in the industry

The former Inside Asia 2019 Rugby World Cup operations lead began her career with Virgin and Abercrombie & Kent

Highlighting travel’s focus on sustainability would help attract more young people, urges panel

Aileen Rutherford and Ryan Clayton will work with the operator’s agency partners in Scotland, Cumbria, the East Midlands and South Yorkshire

Grant Smith joins the global distribution system (GDS) from Amadeus

She will leave The Travel Corporation at the end of August to start with A&K in September

The former Tradewind Voyages business development executive will join the existing UK team of Jos Dewing and James Turner

The company has more than doubled its staff in the past six months

Freeman, who is the current president and chief executive of the Consumer Brands Association, will join US Travel on 1 September

Steph Cope will become the agency’s head of corporate and consumer events and Tanya Cooper has been appointed head of the Personal Travel Consultants

The company will work with The University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) to provide placements for international tourism management students

Davis joins the company from Whitbread where he helped shape the brand’s UK trading strategy

The brand said the restructure means there is scope for a recruitment drive into other markets, with new roles being created outside of the UK

He will start on 27 June, replacing Tasha Smith, who left the business this month

ITT conference panel debates the recruitment crisis in travel and how the industry can attract and, crucially, retain talent

The Future You Foundation has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund new initiatives to boost industry recruitment

The number of candidates placed in new travel jobs reached its joint highest ever in May