Alexis Coles Barrasso joins VIVID Travel
VIVID Travel has appointed Alexis Coles Barrasso as communications director.
Coles Barrasso has worked in the UK travel industry for many years, most notably as group PR and communications Director at Thomas Cook Group.
More recently, she was communications director at The Travel Network Group.
Kane Pire, VIVID Travel’s founder and managing director, said: "Signing Alexis is another significant step forward for us. I am putting in place a high-quality management team that can cope with the scale of business we anticipate post Covid-19.
"Alexis will share her time across both VIVID Travel and Right To Refund.
"Alexis is well connected and highly respected. We are very happy she chose to join team VIVID."
Coles Barrasso said: "I am delighted to be joining Kane at what is an exciting time of the company’s development. It’s refreshing to work with a team that is striving for authenticity in every area of its business and one that has such a clear strategy for the future."
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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