Voyager Travel Corporation hires new sales and marketing manager
Christine Andrews has been appointed as sales and marketing manger for Voyager Travel Corporation.
The announcement:
Voyager Travel Corporation Appoints Christine Andrews as its Sales & Marketing Manager
Australian travel management company, Voyager Travel Corporation has appointed Christine Andrews as its Sales and Marketing Manager. She is based at the company’s Melbourne headquarters in Jolimont and is now responsible for driving Voyager’s sales and marketing strategy and will help the company achieve its key business objective of becoming the leading independent travel management company in Australia.
Christine was formerly the Marketing Manager for Buffalo Tours in Hanoi Vietnam, an Asian owned award winning inbound tour company, with operations in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Buffalo Tours caters to all types including cycling and trekking, luxury holidays, honeymoons, gourmet tours, charity challenges, incentives and volunteer and educational experiences. At Buffalo Tours she was responsible for Public Relations, advertising, multi-media and sales support.
Christine also has prior marketing experience at the Heavenly Group of Companies in Sydney, which is an online shopping company and she also has previous sales experience at the Sheraton Auckland Hotel, as well as roles in publishing. After moving back from Indochina, she had been living in Brisbane until relocating to Melbourne recently to take up her new role with Voyager.
Richard Savva, Chief Executive Officer of Voyager Travel Corporation said: “We are thrilled that Christine Andrews has agreed to join the team at Voyager Travel and we look forward to working with her to not only help us achieve our marketing objectives, but also to get the message out there that Voyager is the best in the business for service delivery, traveller experience and technology innovation.”
Christine will heading up the marketing function, reporting directly to CEO Richard Savva and will own the existing relationships the company has with external agencies including Sphere Public Relations in Sydney, its web design agency, Gee Multimedia in Melbourne and its creative agency, Imagination, based in Sydney.
“I’m so excited to be working for Voyager Travel as it’s a TMC that I have admired for many years having come across the company and its great reputation in my previous roles. I am really looking forward to getting my teeth stuck into this challenging role with one of Australia’s most awarded and best regarded travel management companies,” said Christine Andrews, Sales and Marketing Manager, Voyager Travel Corporation.
Voyager recently won the coveted BTTB Best Travel Management Company Award in 2010 and is a founding member of the GSM (Global Specialist Markets) global group of independent like-minded travel management companies, which gives Voyager global coverage with access to on the ground knowledge and experience throughout the world.
Source: Voyager Travel Corporation press release
