Crystal River Cruises appoints MD

Thursday, 06 Jun, 2016 0

Crystal Cruises has named Walter Littlejohn as vice president and managing director of its river cruise business.

He joins Crystal River Cruises from AmaWaterways where he was vice president. Earlier in his career, Littlejohn co-founded his own travel agency, which he ran for 14 years.

His appointment comes after the announcement of the departure of longtime Crystal executive Philip Ordever.

Littlejohn will divide his time between the cruise line’s Miami branch office and its headquarters in Amsterdam.

He will report to Crystal COO Thomas Mazloum and SVP of marketing and sales Carmen Roig.

Littlejohn will start this week, a month before the maiden voyage of the line’s first luxury river ship, Crystal Mozart, which will sail on the Danube River from Vienna.

Over the next two years, Crystal River Cruises will add six additional luxury new builds to its fleet, starting with river yachts Crystal Debussy, Crystal Mahler, Crystal Bach and Crystal Ravel in the summer of 2017.

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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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