Thursday, July 15, 2004

Hungry? CNG Travel Group Plc appoints industry veteran to pursue aggressive European growth plans"

Hungry? CNG Travel Group Plc appoints industry veteran to pursue aggressive European growth plans"CNG is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Wright as Senior Vice President of Business Development for the Group. Tim, was previously Vice President – Business Development for Worldspan, one of the four largest GDS’s for the travel industry for all new business in Europe, Middle east and Africa (‘EMEA’). (7/14/2004)

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During his 17 year tenure at Worldspan, Tim’s roles included heading up eCommerce for the EMEA region, and was successful in leading Worldspan into becoming the largest GDS for eCommerce in the UK, France and Germany, having successfully negotiated deals with online travel product distributors including lastminute.com and ebookers. Tim was also played a key part in Worldspan signing up over 5,000 travel agents in the UK through strategic deals with Thomas Cook, Going Places and MyTravel.

Tim’s role will be to develop further distribution and to negotiate partnerships in the EMEA region.

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