Cartrawler appoints Tour America GM to executive team

Cartrawler, the travel industry’s gateway to worldwide car rental distribution, has appointed a new Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) to the Executive Team. Brian Ingarfield joins CarTrawler as CPO having spent the past seven years as General Manager of Tour America where he successfully transformed business operations and delivered profitable growth during a period of challenging…

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Meet the Hertz Travel Sales Team

30th November 2012 Meet The Team – introducing Paul Manning and Shauna Mullery Hertz would like to introduce their Travel Sales team of Paul Manning and Shauna Mullery, who will be giving dedicated support to the Irish Travel Trade. Shauna has been with Hertz for the last four years managing corporate accounts and Paul is…

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Calin Rovinescu elected as new chairman of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board

Calin Rovinescu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Canada, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board (CEB). He succeeds Rob Fyfe, CEO Air New Zealand, who held the post for the last two years. “On behalf of all Star Alliance members I thank Rob for his personal…

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Thomas Breathnach gets a ‘piste of the action’ in Austria

View the original articles: http://www.independent.ie/travel/travel-destinations/austria-piste-of-the-action-3304580.html?start=1 http://www.independent.ie/travel/travel-destinations/need-to-know-3304596.html Austria: Piste of the action By Thomas Breathnach Saturday, November 24th 2012 Taking his first ski steps on the slopes of Austria, Thomas Breathnach soon got a taste for the Tyrolean high life For two tick-tocking years, I lived in Switzerland without so much as a sniff of a…

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Declan Mescall joins Travelbiz

A big congratulations to Declan Mescall who has joined Travelbiz.ie as the new Features Editor. Declan has a many years of experience in the travel industry, having recently retired  as Head of Passenger Sales Irish Ferries where he spent over 34 years. Prior to that he was a non executive director of Dublin Tourism for 7…

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