WEEK IN PICTURES
AWTE DISHES OUT GONGS DURING LUNCH
The Association of Women Travel Executives honoured
two of its own at its chairman’s lunch. AWTE vicechairman
Karen Ramirez received the Business Impact
Award, while AWTE stalwart Bella Rangel-Callan
received the AWTE Joan Richardson Award. Pictured
from left, are Gail Kenny Executive Search managing
director Gail Kenny, Rangel-Callan, Ramirez and
Teletext Holidays director of sales Victoria Saunders.
One man went to mow
on Celebrity Solstice
Celebrity Cruises continued
preparations for the launch of Celebrity
Solstice later this month when it hosted a
visit by 22 travel agents. They made the
day trip to Hamburg last month, where
the ship was moored before it sailed to
Fort Lauderdale for its offi cial launch,
which will make it the fi rst new ship for
the operator in six years. Gills Cruise
managing director Steve Philippou is
pictured mowing the grass on board.
COLLETTE FEELS
THE PASSION
Collette Worldwide
Holidays is one of the few
UK tour operators selling
tickets to a play which
has been regularly
performed in a German
village since 1634.
The Passion Play at
Oberammergau tells
the story of Christ and
has been performed
every decade by as
many as 2,000 villagers.
From left, are Nicky
Manning, Allan Trinidad,
Raj Mistry and Paul
Palmer with the mayor
of Oberammergau.
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ORLANDO
STAFF HIT
THE ROAD
Orlando has been promoting its attractions with a
UK roadshow. Staff from Walt Disney World Resorts,
Universal Orlando Resorts, Worlds of Discovery
and the Orlando Convention and Visitors Bureau
have teamed up and visited shopping centres in
Manchester and Glasgow last month before
fi nishing off in Lakeside in Essex last weekend.
Gold Medal
staff get
spooked
Staff at Gold Medal
head offi ce in Preston
took advantage of
Halloween last week
to undertake some
ghoulish behaviour
of their own. Nearly
all of the offi ce’s
550 members of
staff got into the spirit
of the day and dressed
up in some truly
horrifi c outfi ts to
celebrate.
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