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Barrhead to launch US-focused division and continue high street expansion

Sales and marketing director Nicki Tempest-Mitchell said the new division will be launched next year

Disney to invest $60bn to ‘turbocharge’ parks business growth

The company said the investment will go towards the development of new attractions as well as the parks’ expansion

Hays Travel promotes Cherie Richards to newly-created role

Hays Travel gives Cherie Richards an expanded brief and new job title

Travel warned to be clear about its relationship with influencers

Lawyer tells Aito members to be wary about disclosing their relationship with influencers or risk breaching advertising rules

Discuss disabilities at job interviews, travel firms told

Job interviewers should broach the subject of neurodiversity and disability at the interview stage, firms are told

Travel told not to fear a consumer backlash from embracing diversity

Most consumers onboard with DEI policies exhibited by brands, Channel 4 executive tells TTG Fairer Travel Diversity Forum

Harnessing neurodiverse talent now 'a business imperative' for travel

Travel needs to do more to attract neurodiverse job candidates and serve neurodiverse travellers, a TTG seminar has been told

How three travel brands started having DEI conversations

’There is no competition in DEI – if we use it as a forum to compete, then the travel industry will never, ever change,’ TTG’s Fairer Travel Diversity Forum told

Why you need to avoid becoming the 'ask hole' in your company

Senior leaders told they must engage more frequently and willingly with ideas and innovations put forward by junior staff, especially around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion

How 'going woke' can attract new talent and business opportunities

News UK’s diversity chief shows how travel can learn from the strides it has made in diversity, equity and inclusion

Travel found wanting with regards to mentoring and allyship

New research by Women in Travel CIC has established the value of allyship and mentoring to women working in travel, while finding some employers are lacking in both areas

Manchester Airports Group names new group chief executive

Retirement of board chair prompts reshuffle at Manchester Airports Group, which will see Ken O’Toole take over as chief executive

Almost 70% of overseas travel roles lost following Brexit, study finds

New research finds 69% of overseas travel roles were lost since 2017 when UK exited the European Union

Goldman Sachs acquires Casa Cook and Cook’s Club brands

Casa Cook and Cook’s Club managing director Alessandro Dassi described the takeover as ’testament to the strength of our brands’

Great Rail Journeys names new chief operating officer

Great Rail Journeys fills the new role of chief operating officer with internal promotion

Vertical Travel Group homeworker earnings doubled in past year

Business development director Damian McDonough told TTG on Sunday (23 April) it’s not a matter of how many agents Vertical has, but how much they earn as individuals

Luxury Travel Designer of the Year on his hotel childhood, supplier relations and influencer-led tours

From a South African childhood to award-winning London agency, Cartology Travel’s Justin Huxter charts his progress

Jet2holidays trade lead Alan Cross promoted to new director role

Cross to take on new trade-focused director role at airline and operator

'I didn’t know the industry was unstable!' winning musician-turned-agent talks pandemic risk-taking

From pianist to £1 million travel turnover during a pandemic. How Ross Johnson’s award-wining new agency Travlux is hitting the high notes

Scottish consortium plots expansion to 80 members this year

Merlin Travel Group operations and product director Garry Butcher told TTG the consortium wanted to add another 30 members by the end of the year

Caribbean tourism ‘not out of the woods yet’, says industry leader

CHTA president Nicola Madden-Greig said on Wednesday (29 March) the industry faced significant challenges, including rising operating costs and labour shortages

New Crystal Cruises owner offers credit to those impacted by collapse

Crystal Cruises suspended all operations in late January 2022 after the German shipbuilding subsidiary of parent company Genting Hong Kong fell into insolvency.

Emirates UK chief 'not expecting any major issues this summer'

Divisional vice-president Richard Jewsbury talks to TTG about this summer, the airline’s expansions and why it doesn’t fear market competition

Former WTTC comms lead loses claim for unfair dismissal

WTTC exonerated after tribunal judge rules former comms chief Toby Nicol was not unfairly dismissed