New industry appointments
Hall will take responsibility for leading and running all aspects of the day-to-day business, including overseeing operations and strategy.
He will report to Affordable Car Hire founder, Angela Day, who retains the title of MD, but will spend more time as the trade face of the company, working on major accounts, including relationships with agency chains and consortia.
The customer acquisition, customer management and marketing teams will report directly into him. He will also join the company’s board of directors.
Parkes joins from Etihad where he was the Vice President of Sales.
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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