NEWS ROUND-UP
MOVERS and SHAKERS
Z Maria Ersmarker has joined AmaWaterways as business development manager for the southeast and Channel Islands. She is the line’s fourth BDM and moves from Hurtigruten, where she spent eight years.
Z Homeworking firm Not Just Travel has appointed former Thomas Cook trade partnership manager Katrina Latimer as head of trade and homeworking. She is to spearhead the agency’s new approach to recruit experienced agents rather than those new to travel.
Z Newmarket Holidays has appointed Amy Drummond for the new role of business development manager for Scotland and Ireland. Drummond, who has previously worked for Funway Holidays, joins on November 4 from Cara Hotel Marketing.
Z Travel industry charity the Family Holiday Association has appointed Kat Lee as chief executive. Lee, who spent six years as head of youth programmes at Girlguiding, will replace Martin Realey on January 6.
Win a £250,000 advertising campaign with Hearst UK
Globe Travel Awards consumer media partner Hearst UK is to give away a £250,000 advertising campaign to celebrate the second year of its partnership with the UK’s most-prestigious travel awards. Hearst UK is the publisher of
a host of leading brands including GoodHousekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Red, Cosmopolitan and Elle. It will unveil the winner of the prize at the 2020 Globes ceremony on January 16. Entry is open to any travel brand,
with the winner selected by a panel of expert judges before working with Hearst’s partnership team to plan a multi-platform campaign to run during 2020. Sharon Douglas, Hearst UK chief
brand officer (lifestyle), said: “We are super-excited about our £250k Destination Hearst competition. “Many forward-thinking travel
brands are already partnering with us and rebooking as they are seeing new customers coming through that they are not reaching through newspapers.” She added: “Working with Travel
Weekly on the Globe Travel Awards has a hugely positive impact on our relationship with travel brands, and
TRAVEL AWARDS 2020
we wanted to show the industry that we are serious about travel. Puting £250,000 on the table shows we mean business. It’s not just talk.” Mark McCafferty, head of
partnerships at Hearst UK, added: “We’ve seen some amazing results from our travel partnerships and our diverse audience has a huge passion for travel. Te £250k competition is testament to our high confidence of success for brands within this sector.” Lucy Huxley, editor-in-chief at Travel Weekly Group, said: “We
couldn’t hope for a more supportive partner for the UK’s flagship travel awards. Te Globes recognises excellence across the travel industry, and the announcement of the winner of this incredible prize will be a true
high point of another amazing night.” i Find out more about the £250k Destination Hearst competition,
page 34 i Check out the 2020 Globes shortlists in the special supplement with today’s T
ravel Weekly – then vote for your favourites at
globetravelawards.co.uk
Advantage’s Cookes says 15 operators back plan for access to client data
Up to 20 “big suppliers” have backed plans for an advisory group to discuss how they could access customer data in an emergency. Te project is being led by
Kelly Cookes, the former head of Freedom Travel Group, as part of her new role as leisure director at Te Advantage Travel Partnership.
10 31 OCTOBER 2019 Te initiative follows calls for
such a system by Advantage chief executive Julia Lo Bue-Said and John Bevan, dnata Travel’s chief executive of B2B in Europe. Cookes told Travel Weekly: “I
see a lot of opportunities and there are definitely going to be a lot of initiatives in the future.
“Te next big (project) is going
to be the data advisory group. I want to get that up and running as soon as possible. “Te response from suppliers so
far is overwhelming. It’s definitely something that is needed. Between 15 and 20 big suppliers have already commited to taking part.”
travelweekly.co.uk
Kelly Cookes, Advantage
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