UKinbound names new chair
UKinbound has appointed James Aitken, managing director of Cashel Travel, as incoming chair.
He will take over on February 6 2019.
Aitken set up and ran four companies and founded destination management company and incoming tour operator Cashel Travel in 2000.
He has more than 30 years of senior level experience in the UK and Irish inbound tourism industry.
"It is a great honour to be representing an industry that has been so important in my life and I look forward to carrying on the excellent work of the current chair Mark McVay," he said.
"My key priorities as chairman will be to try and help more young people enter the inbound tourism industry, widen the association’s membership across the UK and ensure that our industry continues to receive the respect it deserves within Government and across all political parties."
Aitken has sat on the UKinbound board since 2014, was president of the Scotland chapter of SITE (Society for Incentive Travel Excellence) for two years and has served on the travel trade steering group of VisitScotland.
He is also managing director of the specialist tour operator Great British Trips, which has its head office in Manchester.
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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