NEWS ROUND-UP NEWS IN BRIEF
Boell quits NCL to take up cruise role at Der Touristik
Christian Boell has quit his role as Norwegian Cruise Lines managing director for the EMEA region to join Kuoni parent Der Touristik Group today (November 1). He is tasked with driving the company’s cruise business and will report in to Sören Hartmann, chief executive of Der Touristik.
Kosmar seeks recruits for new homeworking arm
Start-up online venture Kosmar has begun recruiting for a homeworking division. The Sheffield-based travel agency, which launched in October and brought back the name of the former Greece specialist, plans to take on five experienced homeworkers initially and employ 15 by the end of 2019.
Yacht specialist operator Variety Cruises joins Clia
Variety Cruises, which operates 11 boutique-sized yachts across the world, has joined Clia.
Virgin Atlantic appoints Jarvinen from Finnair
Finnair’s chief commercial officer is to join Virgin Atlantic in the new year as commercial executive vice-president. Juha Jarvinen’s appointment, and that of British Gas chief information officer Ash Jokhoo as technology senior vice-president at the airline from February, will complete Virgin Atlantic’s leadership. Current chief executive Craig Kreeger and technology chief Don Langford retire at the end of the year.
PR firm Lotus to retain name after sell-off to W
Travel PR and representation firm Lotus is to retain its name after a majority shareholding was acquired by independent communications company W for an undisclosed sum.
Carnival seeks UK agents to be its Fun Ambassadors
Harry Kemble
harry.kemble@
travelweekly.co.uk
Carnival Cruise Line is on the hunt for eight agent ‘Fun Ambassadors’ to help the line drive engagement with its trade loyalty programme.
The Carnival Fun Ambassadors
will feed advice and ideas back to the line in exchange for year‑long benefits, such as all-expenses-paid trips to Ibiza and Miami. To be in with a chance of becoming an ambassador, agents must enter a competition by telling Carnival why it is fun working as a travel agent and suggest changes they would like to see made to the line’s Loyalty Rocks Club rewards programme. Agents with a sense of fun, a passion for cruising and plenty of ideas will be chosen, the line said. The eight Carnival Fun Ambassadors will earn double
AGENT INCENTIVE
points on Loyalty Rocks Club throughout the year. Other benefits will include a trip to Royal Ascot, three experience days, a cruise from Miami plus a visit to the line’s headquarters in the city. Iain Baillie, Carnival Cruise
Line’s UK managing director, said: “Our eight fun ambassadors will be in the driving seat to define our travel agent programme in the UK. “Most companies have a board
Global Travel aims to motivate with trio of stars for conference
Agents attending the Global Travel Group Conference in Florida next month will hear from US legal clerk and environmental activist Erin Brockovich, 1990s TV fitness instructor Mr Motivator and ex- Blue Peter presenter Katy Hill. Brockovich will give
the keynote speech at the conference at Universal Orlando Resort, which runs from November 25-29. She will tell her life story including her role in exposing
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a 30-year poisoning scandal in Hinkley, California, in the early 1990s. The story of the legal battle, which culminated in a $300million compensation payout, was later turned into a film starring Julia Roberts. Since then, she has been involved in similar pollution
CARNIVAL TIME: Agents appointed as ambassadors will receive a host of perks
of directors giving them advice, but we want to go for a bottom-up approach and hear from the people making the sales for us. “We wanted to make a steering committee for new ideas to drive up engagement with our travel agent programme.” UK and Irish agents have
until November 30 to apply via
carnivalfa.com. The ambassadors will be revealed on December 5.
class-action lawsuits, as well as writing a bestselling book. Global Travel Group
commercial director Cherie Richards said: “She is a true inspiration and, along with our other speakers and panellists, has been selected to inspire our audience.” TV fitness guru Mr Motivator,
who first bounded on to screens on GMTV in his colourful Spandex outfits 25 years ago, will be tasked with getting the fun started at the conference. Former Blue Peter presenter
Katy Hill, now a broadcaster, blogger and travel journalist, will host a session helping others ‘find their why’ and realise their potential.
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