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New tech recruit to help Blue Bay expand trade sales
Matt Wood joins the agent and operator as lead developer
Newmarket adds Gambling and Kinnersley to senior product team
Rob Kinnersley will take on the head of transport and aviation role, whilst Mel Gambling becomes head of cruise and events
Kuoni's award-winning workplace initiatives
Kuoni won the Best Place to Work in Travel accolade at 2021’s Travel Industry Awards by TTG. Here are some of the initiatives that make it a standout workplace
‘Travel is an inclusive place to work, it must lead the way on pay parity’
‘New stats show travel’s gender pay gay narrowed last year, but this isn’t reason to cheer – travel SHOULD be leading the way on this issue,’ writes C&M director Basia Kolosinska for TTG
Travel Village Group seeks to open up industry to ‘important’ young people
The agency is recruiting for apprentices across its business, including in its retail store, technology department and marketing team
Balkan Holidays appoints Adam Courtney as RSM
He has 18 years of experience in the industry as an agent
Job candidates shunning 'unstable' travel firms
New Barclays research highlights post-Covid recruitment difficulties for travel firms, with nine in 10 struggling to staff up again
Travel’s gender pay gap narrows to single-digit disparity
Men continued to earn more than women in 2021, but the gap has tightened to a 6.5% difference, while women in higher-ranking, executive travel roles are earning more than men
Ex-Cosmos BDM Anna Borrer joins Travelosophers
She will take up the role of training and development manager with the luxury travel franchise
Ex-Saga Holidays chief to join JG Travel Group
Chris Simmonds has been recruited as marketing director and Ewan Moore as chief commercial and finance officer
Arena partners with consultancy to boost trade relations
Trevor Davis from 3For has been appointed as consultant responsible for UK trade sales
Gold Medal appoints Sarah Lancashire as marketing director
She will manage inhouse campaigns, partnerships and studio teams which produce marketing collateral for the brand’s agent partners
WTTC predicts creation of 700,000 UK industry jobs by 2032
WTTC’s latest Economic Impact Report said 2021 saw the “slow beginning” of the sector’s recovery
Explora bolsters UK commercial team with seven new appointments
The new employees will work with the line’s travel partners to ‘maximise commercial opportunities’
Emirates on the lookout for new UK cabin crew
Applications are open now, and successful candidates will be interviewed in Manchester across two days later this month
Travel job placements reach second-best ever figure in April
Travel job placements remained at ‘historic highs’ in April, according to the latest figures from C&M Travel Recruitment and C&M Executive Recruitment
Charlotte Gallop returns to travel as Inspire BDM
Gallop, who has previously worked for Going Places, Thomas Cook and Travel Counsellors, spent two years away from travel in the recruitment sector during Covid
Ex-Cunard partnership manager Nicky Bird joins Not Just Travel
Bird will join the homeworking agency as its new partnership manager
AWTE and ITT to champion D&I trailblazers and travel’s rising stars
The associations will sponsor new accolades at each others’ annual awards as part of a broader effort to work together more closely ‘where there are common goals’
Yalago appoints new general manager amid ‘sales boom’
Astrid Kastberg will bring more than a decade of industry experience to the role
Louie Davis named ITT Future You ambassador
Whitbread commercial lead pledges to help ITT showcase the travel, tourism and hospitality sectors as a great place to work, and one that is ’engaging and fulfilling’
WTTC predicts 8m European tourism jobs created by 2032
WTTC’s latest Economic Impact Report said the sector would act as a “driving force” for the region’s post-Covid recovery
Flash Pack reveals plans to improve pay transparency
Employees will be able to use the firm’s compensation calculator to compare their salary against equivalent roles from more than 3,000 similar start-ups
Hurtigruten appoints James Howlett as UK trade lead
Howlett’s appointment comes as Natalie Holder leaves the business to ’pursue a new opportunity’