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ACE appoints new director
The Association of Cruise Experts (ACE) has appointed Flo Powell as its new director.
She replaces Andy Harmer who has joined The Cruise Portfolio as sales and marketing director.
Powell is currently working for the Tourism Society as its executive director and will take up her new position with ACE in the autumn.
She has also worked in the events and conference sector.
In her new role, she will have responsibility for the continued development and growth of the association, with particular emphasis on providing innovative new cruise training programmes, designing and implementing new online training resources and servicing the membership.
She will also develop the ACE UK Cruise Convention.
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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