Joanie Ogg, founder and president of the National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents, will leave NACTA on March 10 to become senior vice president of global sales and industry relations for Travel Counsellors USA.
Travel Counsellors, a host agency based in England, serves more than 900 full-time counselors in Australia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa, the U.K. and the U.S. The company does more than $500 million in annual sales.
Ogg will be charged with spearheading Travel Counsellor’s recruitment of counselors and strengthening the host agency’s relationships with industry partners. The company said it expects to recruit 300 to 400 agents worldwide over the next 12 months.
Travel Counsellors, which launched the home-based market in the U.K. in 1993, entered the U.S. market in 2006.
Ogg will remain active in NACTA but only as a member of the trade group.
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