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Thomas Cook shakes up marketing team
Thomas Cook Group marketing director Jamie Queen has decided to leave the company at the end of April after five years with the company.
His departure comes as Thomas Cook announces a shake-up of its marketing team.
It said Queen was leaving to pursue new challenges.
The shake-up is designed to increase the focus on its growing own-brand hotels and resorts business, said Thomas Cook.
David Child, currently head of communications for Thomas Cook Hotels and Resorts, will add marketing to his responsibilities in a new combined role of head of communications and marketing hotels & resorts.
He will have a particular focus on Thomas Cook’s Casa Cook and Cook’s Club brands along with the 20 new hotel openings scheduled for this summer.
Enric Noguer, chief of hotels and resorts, said: "By creating a combined marketing and communications role within our Hotels and Resorts business, we aim to accelerate our ambition to make Thomas Cook famous for its own-brand hotels across all our markets.
"I am delighted that David is taking on this broader role and look forward to seeing him working with all our markets to bring our hotels to life for customers across all channels."
In the UK, Phil Gardner will assume responsibility for UK marketing in addition to his existing commercial remit.
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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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