FORMER Air Travel Group head of sales Neil Pettifer has joined Online Travel Company as sales and marketing director.
Pettifer, who has been a consultant for the Internet company for the past year, said Online Travel Company was a one-stop travel shop which could undercut high street travel agents. “We’re the complete travel service because we are a tour operator and a travel agent,” said Pettifer.
“We can offer better deals than the high street and I am cautiously optimistic that this is going to do very well.”
Pettifer said that in the week ending January 14, its site had received 32,000 genuine visitors of which around 20% were repeat clients.
He added the number of visitors was increasing by 22% per week.
Twickenham-based OTC is at www.otctravel.co.uk.