Scenic Luxury Cruises and Tours and Emerald Cruises is expanding its sales team with two new recruits and a promotion.
North and central England sales manager Lewis Quigley has been promoted to key account manager after more than eight years with the business.
His elevation sees Vicky Edwards join from If Only/Elegant Resorts, where she was sales executive for the north, to take on Quigley’s former role.
She will also join the team at the Clia Riverview Conference in Budapest from Saturday, where Scenic will be showcasing recently refurbished river cruise ship Scenic Opal followed by a two-night fam trip to Vienna for more than 120 agents.
In addition, Scenic & Emerald Cruises are expanding the sales team further, with
Kerry Eades moves from Fred Olsen Cruise Lines as a third key account manager on April 7.
Quigley and Eades join key account manager Wendi Hardy, while Edwards teams up with other sales managers William Young and Danny Joel.
Head of sales Jonathan Davies said: “I am delighted that we’re growing our trade sales team to the largest it’s ever been in order to better serve our hugely valuable travel agent partners. We’re now working with 45% more travel agents than we were in 2023.
“Vicky and Kerry bring with them an excellent proven track record of sales, relationship management, and effective communication skills.”
He added: “Trade is key to our growth strategy. In recent months, we’ve put effort into working much more closely and are investing more than ever with our valued trade partners, and we have seen the results with an increase in year on year sales by 35% for January.
“I am confident that our new, as well as well-established, team members will provide the most comprehensive offers, support and training for our key travel agent and tour operator partners.”