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Newmarket Holidays expands trade sales team
Newmarket Holidays has appointed Stuart Cowell to its expanding trade sales team as account manager for the South/South West.
He will join the operator on November 6 after almost five years with Holiday Extras.
Cowell has more than 10 years of experience in the travel sector, firstly at Bourne Leisure as key account manager and more recently at Holiday Extras as partnership development manager.
At Newmarket Holidays, his job will be to strengthen relationships with existing travel agent partnerships and introduce potential new ones.
He will work alongside account managers Gemma Walker and Sas Rowbotham with head of retail Richard Forde.
David Sharman, commercial director at Newmarket Holidays, said: "We are striving to continue to grow our retail trade volumes and bringing Stuart into the business reflects our ambition and determination to achieve this goal.
"He brings with him an in depth understanding and knowledge of the UK travel trade and is a well known in the industry, which I know will be of great benefit to the business and our partners.
"We are operating in an extremely competitive marketplace and we will continue to invest and strengthen our sales team going forward in order to support our partners and Stuart’s appointment is the next step of this process."
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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