Former TUI senior boss Karen Doyle has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence for defrauding the company of £60,000-worth of gift vouchers.
At Luton Crown Court, Doyle was also told to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work, given an electronic tag and put under curfew between the hours of 6pm and 6am for the next four months.
The Crown has begun confiscation proceedings to recover the value of the vouchers.
Doyle, who was listed under her maiden name, Mitchell, admitted the fraud at an earlier court hearing.
The court heard Doyle used vouchers to pay for holidays for herself and her family between February 2011 and February 2018. The court heard she ‘abused her position as a senior manager’.
The former Marella Cruises general manager of supplier management and ancillary, from Grantham Avenue, Braintree, is well known in the travel industry, having worked at Royal Caribbean, Cunard, Air UK and Emirates, as well as Thomas Cook, where she was a branch manager.
She joined TUI in 2009 as general manager for cruise distribution and became general manager commercial relations in 2014.
