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Harriet Green makes it into women-only Top 100 Club
Thomas Cook group chief executive Harriet Green was among five women in travel and tourism inducted into the Women 1st Top 100 Club at the Shine Awards last night.
She was joined by Caroline White, chief executive of the Youth Hostel Association, Jo Boydell, chief financial officer at Travelodge, Sandra Matthews-Marsh, chief executive of Visit Kent, and Sue Kemp, divisional director of Legoland Windsor.
In all, 23 female business leaders were inducted into the Women 1st Top 100 Club of the most influential women in hospitality, passenger transport, travel and tourism.
The Top 100 Club members are chosen for having "reached the pinnacle of their careers and act as positive role models providing motivation and guidance for the next generation of leaders".
"The calibre of our winners and the new inductees into the Top 100 Club suggests that the future success of the industry is in safe hands," said Simone Roche, director of Women 1st.
"Women 1st is proud to recognise the accomplishments that the Shine Awards showcase and we hope they will encourage and motivate both women and men to pursue their career aspirations, within our industry, with tenacity and enthusiasm."
Organisers of the Shine Awards, dedicated to women in business, had earlier admitted that nominations from the travel and tourism were lacking this year.
Women 1st, which runs the annual awards to recognise "outstanding female and diversity achievement", said in most categories the entries from the sector were not as "plentiful" or "robust" as it had hoped for.
As a result, it has decided to focus specifically on working with travel and tourism businesses next year to increase the number of entries in 2014 (see previous TravelMole story).
In this year’s awards, Cleopatra Browne managing director of Celtic Quest Coasteering took the Outstanding Entrepreneur Award, while Farm Stay UK was voted the best Small Business.
The full Top 100 Club list can be viewed at www.women1st.co.uk/top-100 and details of the Shine Awards winners can be viewed at www.women1st.co.uk/awards.
Bev
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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