NEWS ROUND-UP MOVERS & SHAKERS
➜ IGLU has appointed OTTOKAR ROSENBERGER as chief operating officer. Rosenberger will
join the company’s board in the new year when he takes up the newly created role. He will oversee product, technology, commercial, sales and marketing, and will report to chief executive Richard Downs.
➜ New OLYMPIC HOLIDAYS chief executive Claire Tobin has made three appointments just two weeks into the role. DONNA ALLCOCK has been made product and commercial director; REEVA KINGSTON is promoted to operations director; and KRISHNA SEYANI becomes human resources manager.
➜SAGA’S head of trade sales Deborah Aylward has left the business to pursue
new opportunities. SHARON MOORE (pictured) will be the key contact for agents at Saga Holidays and SUKINA FAGG will be the contact for Saga Cruises.
➜ G ADVEN- TURES has hired RACHEL COFFEY (pictured) as sales director for the EMEA region in a shake-up of its sales team
that also sees STU DARNLEY (pictured) promoted to the new role of national sales manager. Coffey replaces Uday Sodha, who left the operator in July. She worked at Virgin Atlantic for more than 14 years. Darnley joined G Adventures in 2012 as a travel consultant in its call centre and now manages the eight-strong sales team.
Celebrity Edge to sail in Europe in summer 2019
Lucy Huxley
lucy.huxley@
travelweekly.co.uk
Celebrity Cruises’ newest ship, Celebrity Edge, will sail in Europe in summer 2019, starting with a two-night inaugural sailing for UK agent partners from Southampton.
The ship, which launches in
October 2018, is Celebrity’s first new-build for six years and first new class of ship for 10 years. It will be showcased to the UK
travel trade from May 13-15, 2019, in Southampton before setting off on a 10-night Iberian Peninsula cruise to Rome, calling at ports in Spain, Portugal and Italy. It will offer seven, nine, 10 and
11-night sailings from Rome and Barcelona. Customers wanting to sail for 14 nights can book the two full cruises back-to-back and will call at only one repeat port during the fortnight. Jo Rzymowska, vice-president
and managing director for the UK, Ireland and Asia, said: “For the UK audience, we expect the 14-night open-jaw sailing to be really popular. The only repeat port is Florence, so guests can go to Florence one way, and then Pisa the other.” Ports of call include Monte
Travel Designers dips toe in water of cruise sales with new agent
Travel Designers is set to expand its business and take cruise bookings after hiring a new agent.
The Balham-based travel agency believes selling cruises 12
travelweekly.co.uk 19 October 2017 AREAS: Edge Villa (top left), solarium (right) and Suite Sundeck (main)
“We’ve taken a lot of time to plan itineraries that will appeal to the modern luxury lover”
Carlo, Capri and Mykonos, along with Ibiza and Valencia. It will also visit two new ports – Nauplion in the Peloponnese region of Greece and Santa Margherita, on the Italian Riviera close to Portofino. Rzymowska added: “We’ve
taken a lot of time to plan itineraries that will appeal to the modern luxury lover. Edge will sail
to its customers could add an extra 10% to business over the next 12 months. Travel Designers Cruise is due
to launch on November 1. Until Travel Designers
recruited Simon White, a former employee of American Express and Hayes & Jarvis, cruise enquiries were referred to other travel agencies. Managing director Nick
to 30 ports of call, to 10 countries with five overnights in one season [May-October].” The announcement of Edge’s
2019 summer season was made by president and chief executive Lisa Lutoff-Perlo at an event in London on Tuesday. “The fact that our president and
chief executive came to London to announce Edge’s European deployment speaks volumes for how she views the UK cruise market,” said Rzymowska. “We expect there to be quite a
race for space for the high-end affluent suites on this ship,” said Rzymowska.
Harding-McKay said: “We have always avoided selling cruise because we never had the expertise in that area before. Now we have recruited someone who has the knowledge. Cruise is his passion and we believe in tailoring our service to him. “It is one of the things that came up in his interview. We believe it will be a good challenge for him.”
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