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Travel companies vow to reduce gender pay gaps


Travel Weekly Reporters


Kuoni says it is committed to “improving balance” within the organisation after revealing a 27% mean gender pay gap, one of the highest among UK tour operators.


It put the figure down to the


fact that it has a high proportion of female staff in the lower-paid quartiles, but said its report showed it had “an excellent gender balance throughout our business”. Kuoni has 411 female staff and


117 male staff. Women account for 78% of the overall workforce, 50% of the senior management team and 50% of the leadership team. In its lowest-paid quartile, 84% of staff are women, compared with 62% in the highest-paid quartile. In a statement, the company


said: “We take pride in our efforts to be inclusive, with coaching and career progression plans for everyone regardless of gender and, in producing this report, we commit to continuing to improve balance within our organisation.” Meanwhile, Saga Travel said it


was “passionate” about creating more equal representation across


MIND THE GAP: Travel firms report gender pay differences of up to 67% 27%


Gender pay gap in Kuoni’s UK business


its business after revealing a gender pay gap of 10%. It means women working for Saga earn on average 90p for every £1 men do. The operator’s bonus payments also reveal a disparity: 66% of


Jetset hails bigger on-the-road team as it celebrates 50 years


Trade-only flight consolidator Jetset says its agent-first mantra has helped it keep up with the pace of change to reach its 50th anniversary this year. Sales director Adrian Smyth said Jetset had a record turnover for the first three months of 2018.


Jetset started out as an


Australasia and North America specialist but now works with 2,000 agents, offering access to 300,000 hotels and flights from 150 airlines worldwide. Smyth said an “army” of call


centre staff had reduced in size with the rise of its online system, which has helped him employ more on-the-road sales staff. That team has grown from three to five in the past 18 months.


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women received bonus pay last year, compared with 49% of men, but the bonus rate paid to women was 32% lower than that to men. Agency chain Barrhead Travel


reported a gender pay gap of 1.4% for staff across its shop network, one of the sector’s lowest figures. For the company as a whole, including the senior management team, Barrhead’s overall mean pay gap came out at 14%. Other high street agencies


reported broadly similar gender


GENDER PAY GAPS IN TRAVEL


How much less female staff earn, by mean average, than male staff (figures rounded)


TRAVEL AGENCIES Dawson & Sanderson Tui


STA Travel Barrhead Travel


Thomas Cook Retail Hays Travel


Travel Republic


OPERATORS Saga Travel Gold Medal Jet2holidays Travel 2


Audley Travel Kuoni


AIRLINES British Airways easyJet


Jet2.com Tui Airways 0%


10% 10% 14% 14%


18%* 30%


10% 18% 20% 21% 26% 27%


35% 52% 53% 57%


Thomas Cook Airlines 58% Ryanair


67%


Source: gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk * Figure provided by Hays Travel


pay gaps: 18% at Hays Travel, 14% at Thomas Cook, and 10% at both Tui and STA Travel. The companies submitted their


gender pay gap figures as part of a new government requirement for


firms with 250-plus employees. › Comment, page 34


“I don’t think we’re finished


yet,” Smyth said. “There’s lots of travel agents


HALF-CENTURY: Jetset is planning a series of events to mark 50 years in business


out there. They are our clients, and lend us their customers, so if they win, we win.” To celebrate its 50th year, Jetset is planning a host of UK events this year, as well as 10 fam trips, to destinations including Miami, Houston, Doha, Malaga, Lisbon, the Algarve, Dubai, Toronto. › News You Can Use, page 27


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