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Coconut Travel boss hires husband to lead new homeworking division
Director Claire Smith has asked her husband James to support the agency’s three existing homeworkers and the other five coming joining the business in September
'It took me seconds to say yes!': Lynsey Jones on her 'shock' redundancy and new start with Ambassador
Balkan Holidays’ head of sales’s professional world came crashing down in April 2025 when she was made redundant but she is now back doing what she loves the most – helping agents sell more holidays
Titan Travel hires Virgin Voyages' Andrea Jones as trade team expansion continues
Senior sales manager role Jones will manage a range of strategic accounts across the UK ’to drive deeper relationships and forge mutually beneficial business growth plans’
Top Villas appoints Rachel Bramley to support agents in deepening trade push
Following her appointment, Bramley revealed how Top Villas plans to ’offer the kind of hands-on, responsive support that travel agents and tour operators really value’
Tui, Travel Counsellors, Not Just Travel: all the latest travel trade people moves
A familiar face from his time with Funway Holidays has taken up a new role, while Tui’s head of retail is moving on – elsewhere, two of the UK’s largest homeworking outfits are growing their teams
Ex-Funway marketing chief Nick Talbot joins Unforgettable Travel Company
Canadian Affair marketing chief Talbot has taken a new role at luxury specialist Unforgettable Travel Company
Gold Medal, Atlas Ocean Voyages, Premier Holidays: all the latest travel trade people moves
Moves this week see Johan Lundgren return to a former workplace, while two operators have promoted internally to fill vacancies
Hays Travel hires Fred Olsen Travel's operations chief Tricia Birmingham to fill commercial role
Birmingham’s appointment comes three days after it was announced Hays Travel’s group strategy director McAuley will become managing director of World Travel Holdings UK later this year
Intrepid Travel bolsters trade sales team following Joanna Reeve promotion
The adventure tour operator has confirmed Carrie Grant as its new trade lead, promoting her to the role of head of industry in a reshuffle at the operator
Johan Lundgren, Carrier and Mercury Holidays: all the latest travel trade people moves
Moves this week see Johan Lundgren return to a former workplace, while two operators have promoted internally to fill vacancies
Lisa McAuley to take helm of cruise agency as UK MD
McAuley will succeed Alison Earnshaw as managing director of World Travel Holdings UK from October 1
EasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren
Tui heralds the return of Johan Lundgren
Former easyJet boss Johan Lundgren is to return to his former employer Tui as a non-executive director next year
InteleTravel, Celestyal, G Adventures: all the latest travel trade people moves
Moves this week see InteleTravel ’complete’ its expansion for the year, while Lindblad Expeditions has set up its first-ever UK travel advisory board
NCL, Riviera Travel, Domes Resorts: all the latest travel trade people moves
There are big shoes to fill at Jetset following the departure after more than 20 years of Alison Armstrong, while several other brands have made additions to their trade sales teams
TTNG's new cruise sales director unveils conference and ship charter plans
John Wilson, Celebrity Cruises’ former EMEA sales director, told TTG there’s an opportunity for TTNG to capture a larger share of the cruise market, with ocean cruise currently accounting for nearly a quarter of members’ sales
Not Just Travel, Royal Caribbean, Carnival UK: all the latest travel trade people moves
Tony Roberts returns to travel with Imagine Cruising, while Carnival UK has named P&O Cruises’s new brand director. Meanwhile, two high-profile figures in the travel trade have left their roles after more than 20 years
Cunard sales director Tom Mahoney takes up new role at P&O Cruises
Iain Baillie joined the four-ship line in early June with Tom Mahoney moving in the other direction and taking up a director of strategic planning role at P&O Cruises
InteleTravel, Crystal Cruises and Tui: all the latest travel trade people moves
Moves this week include InteleTravel recruiting Advantage Travel Partnership’s Kelly Cookes, while Carnival Cruise Line’s former international sales director Luke Smith has joined an ultra-luxury cruise line
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Crystal Cruises hires Carnival Cruise Line's Luke Smith to help drive UK and EMEA sales
Prior to joining Crystal, Smith spent more than 12 years at Carnival Cruise Line and a further six-and-a-half years at Carnival UK
InteleTravel recruits Kelly Cookes from The Advantage Travel Partnership
The Advantage Travel Partnership has lost its chief commercial officer Kelly Cookes to InteleTravel, where she will take on the new role of commercial director from 1 September
Tui promotes Jill Cunningham to lead on third-party and retail sales
Cunningham joined Tui, then Thomson, in 2003 as a holiday rep in Greece and has held a variety of roles since then, including spells as a business development manager and as commercial relations general manager
Tui, Riviera Travel, MSC Cruises: all the latest travel trade people moves
Moves this week include Attraction World Group chief financial officer Joe Hyland taking the top job, while MSC Cruises hires former Balkan Holidays RSM Natasha Smith
Attraction World names new chief with bosses Nicholls and Mahoney set to depart
Attraction World Group has named Joe Hyland as new chief executive after the former post holder and chief commercial officer leave the business, with both remaining tight-lipped about their future plans
Tui stalwart of more than 25 years Belinda Vazquez to leave the business
Tui’s director of customer sales and service, who joined the business more than 25 years ago as a trading assistant, to ’pursue a fresh challenge’