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TUI appoints new communications director
TUI UK & Ireland has appointed Fiona Jennings as director of external communications for mainstream brands Thomson and First Choice.
Christian Cull, former TUI UK & Ireland director of communications, left the company in November.
Jennings joins the company with 20 years of communications experience working on brands such as WHSmith, eBay, Amazon and Tesco.
She most recently headed up communications for Comet, where she worked for over five years.
According to TUI, her expertise lies in consumer brand communication and crisis management; she has also been involved in a number of high profile campaigns including Amazon’s entry into the UK market and the launch of Tesco.com.
Jennings joins TUI on March 12 and will assume management responsibilities for the PR team, reporting into managing director for TUI UK & Ireland David Burling.
She will not hold a position on the board.
by Bev Fearis
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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