Personal talk
n What is your star sign?
Gemini – the twins.
n What would you change about yourself?
I would like to be taller and have a more tolerant nature.
n What is your greatest regret?
Not going to university.
n What is your greatest extravagance?
Noni juice – a very expensive health drink that had better work!
n If you could be anyone for a day who would it be and why?
Nicole Kidman – she’s married to Tom Cruise!
n What is your greatest vice?
Chocolate. I love it, it hates me.
n What’s the corniest chat-up line you’ve ever used?
Would you like to share my umbrella?
n What is the most memorable destination you’ve visited and why?
Apart from Queensland, Brazil – Iguassu Falls are amazing!
n What type of holiday would you avoid at all costs?
Packaged club holiday. I think that they are too organised and contrived. Idislike the thought of watered down all-inclusive cocktails.
n What is your favourite TV programme/film/book?
My favourite TVprogramme is, embarrassingly, The Waltons, the book is To Kill a Mockingbird and the film is Eraser.
n What’s your idea of a great night out?
The theatre and then dinner.
n What would you have put on your gravestone?
Hear the music before the song is over.
Ros Pittendreigh
Job title: sales manager, UK/Ireland and Scandinavia.
Age: I’m older than most people guess.
Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Lives: West Kensington, London.
Status: married.
Education: MT Gravatt High School, Brisbane.
Path to career: in 1982, Ros joined Queensland Government Tourist Board as a secretary. In 1983, she went to the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, Sunshine Coast, working as a cadet consultant before taking up the post of travel consultant and assistant manager at the Queensland TravelCentre in Adelaide in the same year. She then became the manager at the Queensland Holiday Shop before joining Tourism Queensland, London, in 1991 as co-ordinator and sales manager.