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Holland America Line appoints new president
Holland America Line has appointed Orlando Ashford as its new president, starting on Monday.
He joins the company from Mercer, the global consulting group in ‘talent, health, retirement and investments’, where he was president of the Talent Business Segment.
Ashford will oversee Holland America Line’s sales and marketing, revenue management, deployment and itinerary planning, public relations, hotel operations and strategy.
He will relocate to the Holland America Line headquarters office in Seattle, reporting to Group CEO Stein Kruse.
He will be part of the group’s executive leadership team, alongside Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises; Richard Meadows, president of Seabourn and president of Cunard North America; and Ann Sherry AO, chief executive officer, Carnival Australia.
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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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