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Travelport appoints VP agency sales for Europe
Travelport has appointed Alistair Rodger as global vice president agency sales Europe.
He joins from Hotelbeds Group, where he created and ran a retail division formed in 2017 following the integration of GTA and Tourico Holidays into the Hotelbeds Group.
In this role he managed relationships with more than 50,000 retail travel agents.
Before that Rodger was chief commercial and operating officer at The LateRooms Group, where he had responsibility for group operations across LateRooms.com, AsiaRooms.com and MalaPronta.com.
Earlier in his career he was CEO at Holiday Autos, vice president of partner marketing for EMEA at lastminute.com, and vice president of partnerships and promotions at Hilton Worldwide.
At Travelport, he will be based in the company’s global headquarters in Langley and will report to Travelport’s chief commercial officer for agency sales, Nick Dagg.
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