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Gulf Air names new UK general manager
James Harrison is to join Gulf Air as its new general manager for the UK.
Harrison, currently general manager in Dublin, will take over from May 14.
He replaces Clive Wratten, who has left to join HRG (Hogg Robinson Group).
Harrison moved to Gulf Air in 2002 from British Airways where he was an area manager.
He joined the UK office as Gulf Air’s sales and marketing manager and was posted to the UAE after 12 months as area manager for Dubai and Northern Emirates.
In January 2006, he was appointed general manager – Worldwide Corporate Sales based in Bahrain and when Gulf Air announced the start of its Dublin operations he became general manager – Ireland .
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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