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Miya Gilritchie has joined TravelCube as regional account manager – Scotland & North East England. ● Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has appointed Peter Nowlan as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. ● Hayley Beer-Gamage FTS has been elected as the new chair of the Tourism Society. ● Paul Luxon has been appointed CEO of Condor Ferries. He will take up the post on May 1. ● Brilliant Travel, part of the Barrhead Travel Group, has appointed Rebecca Price as business development manager. ● Alitalia has appointed Cramer Ball as a member of its board of directors, designated to be appointed as CEO from early March. ● Richard Brouwer has been appointed CEO of Khiri Travel. ● Cruisingexcursions.com has appointed Michelle Burge as travel trade training manager. ● Suzanne Walford has joined African Pride as product manager, while Katherine Terry takes on the role of tours consultant. ● Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has appointed Neil Herbert as head of sales. ● Independent Travel Experts ex-director, Paula Nuttall, has joined The Vertical Travel Group to spearhead a new homeworking strategy across a variety of brands. A new role of group membership director has been created to expand on the current agent numbers in Your Holiday Booking and Holiday Elite with recruitment to extend across the group portfolio, which also includes The Travel Village Group, Amathus Holidays, Miss Ellies Travel and Bedbank. ● Adrian Croft has been appointed director of sales and marketing Khiri Travel UK. ● Amanda Darrington will join Funway Holidays as sales director from March 14. ● Manchester Airport has appointed Nico Spyrou as its new travel trade marketing manager. ● MBNA Thames Clippers has appointed Joanna Lindsay as business development executive. ● The CMV Travel Group has appointed Peter Stratton as managing director. ● Crystal Cruises has appointed Phillip Ordever as vice president and managing director for Crystal River Cruises ●
BREAKFAST CALL...Manchester Airport Group hosted a breakfast at Manchester Airport for travel agents on their way to the Jet2Holidays' conference in Mallorca at the end of last year. Pictured are, from the left: Nico Spyrou, Manchester Airport Group; Liashia Stubbs and Debbie Wilkox, 3D Travel; and Bill Coad,Travel Bulletin.
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New Rotterdam flights from Flybe for less than £20 FLYBE HAS announced an introductory offer on its new multi-frequency daily service to Rotterdam The Hague from Manchester that starts on February 8. Available for booking now at www.flybe.com for a limited time only, oneway fares are from £19.99 including taxes and charges, subject to availability. Flights have been conveniently timed for day return travel.
California fares from £139 one-way in June with WOW air WOW AIR will commence flights to the Californian destinations of Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO) in June, with both routes now available to book from £139 one-way. Flights to San Francisco will begin on June 9, while those to Los Angeles will commence on June 15, available to book from Gatwick and Bristol. The flights, via Reykjavik (KEF), will take place four times weekly to Los Angeles with five weekly flights to San Francisco, year-round. The airline's expansion to California follows the successful launch of transatlantic services from the UK to Boston and Washington DC in early 2015 and the announcement that the airline would begin flying to Montreal and Toronto in May 2016 - all via Iceland, with fares from £99. For more information visit wowair.co.uk
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