Not Just Travel appoints Richards amid shop plan


Ben Ireland


Not Just Travel has appointed former Global Travel Group commercial director Cherie Richards to spearhead a division and help some members expand to the high street. Richards takes up the newly created


role of chief business development officer at the franchise group, which has more than 600 homeworking travel agents, many of whom were new to travel when they joined. She said: “I want to bring


something new to Not Just Travel to help attract experienced travel agents to the group – those that may want to run a shop, work in an office or indeed work from home.” Richards will also be tasked with


helping existing Not Just Travel franchisees increase profits and improve the experience they offer their customers, with a focus on customer retention and personal development. She will also oversee its trade team, sales and marketing, training and recruitment. Co-founder Paul Harrison said


Richards’ appointment was part of building a “dream team” to support


Cherie Richards: ‘I want to help attract experienced agents to the group’


Shapps sets up Jet Zero Council for no-carbon flying


The transport secretary has announced plans for a Jet Zero Council. Leaders from aviation,


environmental groups and government will work together in the group, which will be asked to prove that net-zero emission transatlantic flying is possible “within a generation”. Grant Shapps used the


government’s daily coronavirus briefing on Friday to unveil the council as he acknowledged the aviation sector had had “an impossible few months”. “Despite these obvious


challenges there’s a real determination within the industry to have a greener restart,” he said. “Our goal, within a generation,


Cherie will be


creating a strategy for our members, which could potentially involve retail opportunities


Not Just Travel’s members. “Cherie will be creating a


new strategy for how we can help our members with their natural progression and scaling, which


Tributes paid to Roy Brabender,


stalwart of the Scottish travel trade Tributes have been paid following the death of Roy Brabender, the only person to have been president of the Scottish Passenger Agents’ Association for three separate terms. A former managing director of Donald Mackenzie Travel in Glasgow, Brabender helped create Iata’s Billing and Settlement Plan and was a former Abta director. He was a well-known and respected figure in the Scottish travel agency community from the 1960s to the 2000s.


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could potentially involve retail opportunities,” he said. Richards, who joins the group’s


senior management team after 15 years at the Global consortium and a 27-year career in the travel industry, will also lead a new division which Not Just Travel is due to launch in the coming weeks. Fellow co-founder Steve Witt


said: “The next few months will see some major changes and enhancements to our business as we innovate further.”


Cunard, CMV and HAL postpone


resumption of cruise programmes Cruise lines have pushed back the restart of their programmes until after the summer due to the continued impact of Covid-19. Cunard extended its pause on sailings until November, following sister line P&O Cruises’ previous extension of cancellations to mid-October. Cruise & Maritime Voyages deferred its resumption from July 1 to August 25, while Holland America Line has pushed back Vancouver departures


to autumn and Hawaii departures to 2021. i News You Can Use, page 16


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will be to demonstrate flight across the Atlantic without harming the environment.” Shapps said the government


would be backing a company called Velocys that is building a plant for aviation biofuels in Lincolnshire, and a Cambridge University project accelerating technologies for zero-carbon flight. The announcement was


welcomed by Airlines UK chief executive Tim Alderslade; Virgin Atlantic; and Manchester Airports Group, which operates Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted airports.


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