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Traveltek to recruit up to 40 new staff
Traveltek is to create up to 40 new jobs to fuel its international expansion plans.
Peter Whittle, previously sales and marketing director, has been promoted to director, global sales of the UK-based travel technology specialist.
Meanwhile Tim Poulter, who joined the company last year as Asia Pacific regional director, is to leave immediately.
The new posts will be made up from strengthening Whittle’s sales and account management team, with an increased number of project management professionals joining the business.
There will also be "significant" additions to Traveltek’s content team and a new language academy to provide an in-house team of translators.
It plans to launch in Russia the third quarter of this year and in Russia in 2014.
Traveltek’s internal support division will move to a 24/7/365 service in April, boosted by a recruitment drive in both support and customer services.
CEO Kenny Picken said: "We have been working hard for the last five years to establish a global platform which many saw as a pipe dream. but we have pulled it off. and 2012 was a record year for us. despite a huge investment in our new custom built UK HQ offices and the opening of our North Sydney offices, where our growth has been simply fantastic!
"Since we entered the Australian market just three years ago, we have secured business from the top cruise retailers and our wholesale cruise distribution product has been hugely successful establishing Traveltek as the clear market leader in our field.
"We would expect to add a US office in New York in Q4 2013 as our presence within North America grows"
Linsey McNeill
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