Rachel Coffey joins Travel Corporation

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

 Rachel Coffey  joins  Travel Corporation as sales and business development director for four of its award-winning guided holiday brands – Trafalgar, Insight Vacations, Costsaver and Luxury Gold – in the UK and Ireland.

She will  be responsible for the overall business development of these strategically important brands within the TTC portfolio and nurture existing relationships and develop new meaningful partnerships with the UK trade.

She will lead a sales and marketing team of ten and will be reporting to Gavin Tollman , global chief executive of Trafalgar and Costsaver, and Ulla Hefel Bohler, global chief executive of Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold.

Tollman was very impressed by Rachel’s achievements, ambition and knowledge of the UK trade and believed that their business in this market will be in extremely capable and dynamic hands.

Tollman was looking forward to her leadership building on this and taking them to the next level.

Coffey earlier worked for G Adventures as the director of sales for UK & Ireland, heading up the company’s largest trade sales team globally.

She graduated as an Aerospace Engineer before joining Virgin Atlantic  and she was among the one of three candidates chosen on to the company’s development programme.

She also worked for a number of senior positions , in Nigeria the west of Africa she could increase the business by 20 percent.

Hefel Böhler said that they took a very careful and considered approach to this appointment and Rachel ticked all their boxes.

She has a proven track record in business development and her fantastic industry contacts book, coupled with her passion, drive and personable approach.

She welcomed her to their  Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold leadership team where Coffey will be staring a new role on March 11^th.

Coffey was excited by this role and wanted  to deliver growth for the award-winning brands.She also because felt a real connection to their core values and those of the Travel Corporation as a whole.

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