Recruitments

EXCLUSIVELYSPA has announced Christina Alissandraki as its new Partner for Marketing, Business Development & Consulting for Greece.

Looking towards international markets, Celestyal Cruises recently announced the appointment of a president for the North American market as well as a local sales executive in China.

TUI Group – currently present in 180 destinations – is reinforcing its management team in the Corporate Office EU in Brussels with two new executives.

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has appointed André Blattmann to its Board of Directors, who will take up his position on January 1, 2018.

Mideast Travel has appointed Stelios Dimitriou, a professional in the business travel sector for the last 26 years, to the position of commercial director.

Grigoris Tasios was elected as the president of the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation (POX) on Thursday, November 9.

Christos Dimas has been appointed as the general manager of the Meliá Athens Hotel, located in the center of the Greek capital.

The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) appointed Andrew Kelly, director corporate affairs of ASL Aviation Holdings, as its new president, during the ERA General Assembly 2017.

Greece will be represented on the new Board of Directors of MedCruise, the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports, by the ports of Piraeus, Volos and Corfu.

Air charter broker company Zela Aviation has announced the appointment of Nikolay Panov and Andrew Christoforides to its team in Cyprus.

Ryanair’s former director of flight operations Peter Bellew, as of December 1, 2017, will return to the company as chief operations officer.

TIF-Helexpo CEO Kyriakos Pozrikidis has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of UFI-The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry.

Celestyal Cruises has appointed Andrew Magowan as the company’s new vice president commercial in the European region with a focus on the UK market.

Zurab Pololikashvili, current Ambassador of Georgia to Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Andorra, has been appointed Secretary General of the UNWTO for the 2018-2021 period.

Uber’s Board of Directors unanimously voted to appoint Dara Khosrowshahi, former Expedia CEO, as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer.

Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al Baker as of June 2018 will serve as chairman of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has announced the appointment of Gloria Guevara Manzo as its new President & CEO.

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis has been elected as one of the Vice Chairmen of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Affiliate Members.

Flora Paraskevopoulou has been appointed PR & Communication Director at sales & reservation management company Axia Hospitality and digital marketing agency Nelios.

Antonis Kambourakis will serve as the president of the Hellenic Federation of Hoteliers, replacing Yiannis Retsos who was elected to head SETE.