NEWS ROUND-UP NEWS IN BRIEF
Biggs and Bryan recognised in new year’s honours list
Former Kuoni boss Sue Biggs received a CBE in the new year’s honours. Biggs ran Kuoni for 25 years until 2007 and spent two years as managing director of scheduled business at Thomas Cook. Colin Bryan, chief executive of UK theme park Drayton Manor Park, received an OBE.
Sandals to build a fourth property in Saint Lucia
Sandals is to open a fourth resort in Saint Lucia. Work on Sandals LeSource Saint Lucia is due to start in the spring on 19 acres of land next to the existing Sandals Grande Saint Lucian Resort. No opening date has been disclosed.
Novasol general manager Hoad to leave the business
Novasol UK general manager Malcolm Hoad is to leave the business. Hoad, who previously worked at James Villa Holidays and Cosmos Holidays, will be replaced by Leger Holidays commercial director Alex Stuart.
Getabed recruits Muir as UK and Ireland sales head
Getabed has appointed Angela Muir as head of sales for the UK and Ireland. Muir joins after almost 10 years at Travel Cube, and previously worked for Highlife Breaks and Going Places.
COMMENT: “Is lobbying just the tourist boards’ job or are we collectively responsible?” Andy Freeth, page 30
Industry ‘must share data to aid women in business’
Hollie-Rae Brader
hollie@travelweekly.co.uk
A clarion call has been issued to the travel industry to better support female progression.
Businesses should help create benchmarks by sharing data highlighting gender diversity, development, retention and those returning from career breaks, according to Google’s head of ads marketing, Nishma Robb. Speaking at a Women in Business
lunch, hosted by Travel Weekly Group’s luxury title, Aspire, and Celebrity Cruises, Robb said: “We need the light to be shone on de- veloping women in business more. “We need to take action and my
rallying call consists of several factors. The first is data; we need to establish exactly where the travel industry is when it comes to gender diversity and pay divides. “I created a policy within Google
and I won’t allow anyone to speak at external events unless they are diverse events.” Robb was joined by Celebrity Cruises’ Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, who became the first female chief executive at parent company Royal
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Bales Worldwide’s Molly Bales passes away, aged 89
Travel industry veteran Molly Bales has died, aged 89. She ran operator Bales
Worldwide after taking over from her husband George, who started the 65-year-old business known for tailor-made holidays to China, India, Egypt and Latin America. Bales Worldwide was sold to
Virgin Holidays in 2009, retaining MOLLY BALES: Pictured in 2009 8
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SPEAKERS: Nishma Robb, Google, and Lisa Lutoff-Perlo (left), Celebrity
“We need data to establish exactly where the industry is with gender diversity and pay divides”
Caribbean Cruises in its then 45-year history in 2014. Lutoff-Perlo said: “My role gave me the opportunity to give a voice, an opportunity and a north star for other women. It took 45 years for our company to appoint a woman in this position and yet we’re in the travel business, where the
decisions to buy travel reside with a woman in a household. We need to work together more. “I looked at the faces of all the
women when I got this job and they couldn’t have been happier for me and the same goes for the thousands of women working on our ships. It gives other women something to aspire to.” Carol Hay, the Caribbean
Tourism Organisation’s marketing director for the UK and Europe, and Mary McKenna, managing director at Tour America, also urged more women to become
involved in mentoring schemes. › Caught on Camera, page 34
its name and offices in Dorking. Bales’ daughter Mandy Nickerson stayed on as managing director. Molly Bales passed away in December with her family at her bedside after a short illness. Friends described her as an
“energetic woman full of words of wisdom” who “loved to travel”. She continued to speak at industry events into her 80s, including at the ITT Odyssey Dinner at the House of Commons in 2010. Details of her funeral are yet to
be confirmed.
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