NEWS ROUND-UP MOVERS & SHAKERS


Former Tui product and purchasing managing director Garry Wilson


has joined easyJet. Wilson, whose move was announced in May, becomes chief executive of easyJet Holidays and is expected to oversee significant growth in the division.


Former Trafalgar and Insight Vacations sales director Ruth Hilton is to join The


Appointment Group, which is rebranding as TAG. She will manage the travel management specialist’s private clients division and will also develop its UK leisure business.


Travelzoo UK managing director Joel Brandon- Bravo is to leave the deals


publisher on November 30. He is yet to announce his next role. Travelzoo is expected to reveal his replacement in the coming weeks.


Central England Co-op, which includes 26 travel agencies, has appointed its


first female chief executive. Debbie Robinson will join from convenience store Spar, where she was UK managing director, in spring next year. She will replace Martyn Cheatle, who retires in May 2019.


Abta has announced that Tui’s UK and Ireland


commercial and business development director, Richard Sofer (left), and dnata Travel Europe’s chief executive, John Bevan, have joined the association’s board.


COMMENT: “Social media is the new shop window, and visuals sell everything in travel”Gordon McCreadie, page 34


Fred Holidays to sell Nat Geo Expeditions in the UK


Hollie-Rae Brader hollie@travelweekly.co.uk


National Geographic Expeditions believes a new partnership with Fred Holidays will help the brand achieve its “very ambitious targets for the UK”.


Suffolk-based Fred Holidays has been appointed as general sales agent and will be responsible for all commercial agreements with agents. It will offer 10% commission for bookings, while helping to support the trade to sell National Geographic’s land expedition programme of more than 40 small-group itineraries. National Geographic Expeditions announced its intention to sell through agents in the UK at the end of last year, having primarily focused on the North American market previously. The move to sell through Fred


Holidays includes pricing trips in pounds and provides financial protection under Fred’s existing Abta and Atol bonding. Nathan Philpot, travel


director at National Geographic Expeditions, said the tours, at an


Travel Weekly news team expands and French is promoted


Travel Weekly has appointed Stephen Penn as a senior reporter. Penn has six years’ experience,


having worked at Bedfordshire on Sunday and most recently Abode2 Luxury Property Magazine. He will


be a general reporter covering all industry news, and will also oversee the Mystery Shopper page, hotels and theme parks news. Penn will report into news


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NEW APPOINTMENTS: Stephen Penn and Laura French


editor Ben Ireland in an expansion of the news team that has also seen Amie Keeley become head of news


TANZANIA: A National Geographic tour visits Tarangire National Park £10k


Average price point of National Geographic Expeditions tours


average price point of £10,000 (excluding flights), offered agents significant earning opportunities. “It is exciting for travel agents


to begin promoting these tours in the UK and give luxury travellers the opportunity to see the world


through National Geographic’s eyes,” Philpot said. Steve Williams, managing


director of Fred Holidays, added: “We have successfully introduced and represented a number of brands to the UK market and I look forward to adding National Geographic to our portfolio.” Tour operator Fred Holidays is part of UK company Fred Olsen, which also includes the agency chain Fred Olsen Travel. A 112-page brochure is


available through Fred Holidays: email sales@fredholidays.co.uk.


and Lee Hayhurst take up his role as editor of Jacobs Media Group’s digital travel title Travolution full-time this summer. Penn can be contacted at


stephen.penn@travelweekly.co.uk. Meanwhile, Travel Weekly has


promoted Laura French to deputy features and supplements editor, focusing on destination content and cruise supplements, after two years as features reporter. French was runner-up in the


best travel trade feature category in the Caribbean Travel Media Awards last week for an article about the Cayman Islands.


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