Tui UK & Ireland managing director Andrew Flintham and Travel Counsellors managing director Kirsten Hughes are among the speakers confirmed for Travel Weekly’s Future of Travel Selling Conference on October 18.
The full-day event, which forms part of Travel Weekly’s 50th anniversary celebrations, takes place in central London in partnership with Google, and will include exclusive findings from the search giant’s Decoding Decisions travel consumer research.
Other confirmed speakers include: Lee Haslett, vice-present sales, Virgin Atlantic; Ruairidh Roberts, senior industry head for travel, Google; Andy Washington, senior vice-president travel, Culture Trip; Chris Photi, partner, White Hart Associates; Stephanie Kovach, global business manager, Google; and Tom Day, director of innovation, Market Gravity/Deloitte.
Topics will include building successful teams, regulation, smart technology, sustainability and the future of travel retail.
Lucy Huxley, Travel Weekly Group editor-in-chief, said: “This essential conference on the future of travel selling could not be more timely following this week’s seismic shift in the industry, and I look forward to hearing from a range of outstanding speakers.”
Limited places are available to attend the free conference on a first come, first served basis.