Galileo appoints sales manager North
Galileo has appointed Margaret Paton as sales manager North for the Glasgow-based organisation.
Margaret will report to Patrick Lukan, Galileo general manager UK & Ireland, and will be part of the UK & Ireland management team.
She replaces Kirsty Orr who left to join Traveltek in February as operations director based in East Kilbride.
Before joining Galileo, Paton was operations manager for Travel2/4 where she had direct managerial responsibility for over 300 sales and support staff.
Prior to that, she worked for Unijet as air operations manager with responsibility for over 100 sales and support staff.
She has also worked for Thomas Cook, Carlson Worldchoice and Thistle Air in various sales and operations roles.
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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