NEWS ROUND-UP MOVERS & SHAKERS
◗ The Advantage Travel Partnership has promoted Julia Lo Bue-Said to chief executive. Lo Bue-Said had
been managing director of the consortium for five years, having held leisure and commercial director roles beforehand. Advantage Travel Centres posted a £20.9m turnover last week for the year to September 2017.
◗ Head of sales Angela Sloan is to leave Scenic for Cruise118 parent World Travel Holdings (WTH),
where she will become head of product and commercial on May 21. WTH UK promoted Alison Earnshaw from product and commercial director to managing director last month. Dawn Quinn takes the role of head of UK trade sales at Scenic.
◗ Travelport northern Europe managing director Simon Ferguson has been promoted to managing
director, agency commerce for the Americas. Ferguson will relocate to Atlanta in the US from July 1. He replaces Bret Kidd, who will take another role at the travel technology firm.
COMMENT: “We must act immediately to avoid 2017’s overtourism issues escalating further” Gavin Tollman, page 28
Tui cruise manager scoops top award at Hall of Fame
Lee Hayhurst
One of travel’s most promising young managers was recognised at the annual British Travel& Hospitality Hall of Fame on Monday night.
Anna Clarke, Tui general manager for cruise customer experience, beat six other under- 35s to scoop the young manager of the year award at the event at London’s Dorchester hotel. Clarke said: “I really do not
know how I won against such amazing competition, but it’s great to be recognised for doing a job I love. This can only spur me on in the future.” The award for young manager
of the year in the hospitality sector went to Oliver Milne-Watson, hotel manager at The Beaumont in Mayfair, London. The young travel entrepreneur
of the year award went to the chief executive of start-up Vchain Technology Irra Ariella Khi, while the hospitality award went to Vivek Chadha, founder of Nine Group Hotels and Investments. All 26 finalists in the four
categories underwent face-to-
Hurtigruten bids to become first plastic-free line
Hurtigruten has pledged to ban all unnecessary single-use plastic by July 2. Plastic straws, drink mixers,
plastic glasses, coffee lids and plastic bags will be removed from all ships in the fleet as Hurtigruten bids to be the first plastic-free cruise company.
CLEAN-UP: Kristian Skar, hotel manager of Richard With, and Hurtigruten boss Daniel Skjeldam
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travelweekly.co.uk 3 May 2018 AWARDS: Tui’s Anna Clarke (in blue) with other winners and inductees
face interviews with Hall of Fame judging panels. As well as awards for under-35s,
four of the industry’s leading business figures were formally inducted into the Hall of Fame. They were G Adventures
founder Bruce Poon Tip, former Momondo Group chief executive Hugo Burge, former UNWTO secretary general Taleb Rifai and Deloitte global leader for travel and aviation Graham Pickett. They were honoured alongside
Plastic straws will be replaced
by metal straws and stir pins will no longer be used. The same goes for glasses
wrapped in plastic, plastic cutlery, bags, coffee cup lids, toothpicks, aprons, single-use packaging of butter and all other single-use plastic items that Hurtigruten’s 400,000 passengers and 2,500 employees encounter on a day-to-day basis. Every year the line uses 960,000 plastic straws and 390,000 plastic glasses.
one inductee from the hospitality sector: Tim Martin, founder of pub chain JD Wetherspoon. Carnival Corporation was also honoured, taking home the sustainable business award. Other recipients included John Vincent and Henry Dimbleby, co-founders of healthy fast food chain Leon, who won the annual business excellence award. The Hall of Fame is part of Jacobs Media Group, which also includes Travel Weekly.
Hurtigruten has also
announced its largest environmental upgrade in its 125-year history. Up to nine ships will be retro-fitted to liquefied natural gas (LNG) and battery propulsion. Meanwhile, Hurtigruten is
to lose its monopoly on the Norwegian coastal service between Bergen and Kirkenes from 2021. The Norwegian transport ministry will split the contract between Hurtigruten and shipping company Havila.
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