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Businessman Gavin Tollman is a twenty-year veteran of the travel and hotel industry. Today, Tollman




Businessman Gavin Tollman is a twenty-year veteran of the travel and hotel industry. Today, Tollman serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Trafalgar Tours, a tour company that offers guided vacations to a wide range of international destinations including Asia, the Middle East, Australia, cruise vancouver hawaii Canada, Europe, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, and the United States. Gavin Tollman was appointed to hold the position of Trafalgar CEO in May of 2010. As CEO he is in charge of overseeing all company operations including sales, marketing, and product delivery. He is also leading the company to develop new products, bringing to action his vision for Trafalgar Tours: to evolve the image and perception of coach touring. Specifically, Tollman aims to create a new coach touring experience that addresses cruise vancouver hawaii the usual complaints voiced by many tourists who feel that coach tours are rushed and over-planned with activities and destinations. Under Tollman's guidance Trafalgar has created unique programes such as "Be My Guest" cruise vancouver hawaii or "At Leisure" that transform the bustling and tiring travel experience into a more relaxed and restful one. "If someone cruise vancouver hawaii wants to spend a day in a hotel or in the spa, then let them", says Tollman.
Trafalgar was founded in 1947 and is one of 25 travel brands owned by The Travel Corporation. In conjunction with his new appointment at Trafalgar Tours, Gavin Tollman was also appointed to the post of Chairman of The Travel Corporation South Africa. His responsibilities as Chairman include cruise vancouver hawaii overseeing the company's global web strategy and identifying new business opportunities. Prior to his most recent position, Gavin Tollman was the Non-Executive Director of Wilderness Safaris as well as Cullinan Holdings Limited. His most recent cruise vancouver hawaii role within Trafalgar Tours is actually his third executive position cruise vancouver hawaii at the international tourism company. From 1997 to 2001 Tollman served as President of Trafalgar Tours United States and from 2003 to 2009 he was Global Head of Sales. In between these posts Gavin Tollman was President of The Travel Corporation North America from 2001 to 2003. During this time he was responsible for the North American operations of five travel brands owned by The Travel Corporation including: Trafalgar Tours, Insight Vacations, Contiki Holidays, Destination America and AAT Kings.
In the Fall of 2010, The Travel Corporation held a Global Conference in South Africa where it also sponsored a Gala Dinner. cruise vancouver hawaii During the Gala Dinner Gavin Tollman awarded Trafalgar Tours USA with the "Trafalgar Tours' Office of the Year Award". The President of Trafalgar USA, Paul Wiseman, received the award on behalf of the USA office and during his speech said, "I am delighted to receive the Office of the Year Award for Trafalgar US in recognition of excellent sales performance that not only exceeded 2009, but also 2008. This was quite a feat in these difficult economic circumstances".

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