Princess team revamp

PRINCESS Cruises has revamped its sales and marketing divisions for Australia and New Zealand, combining both under the command of Nick Ferguson who has been promoted to sales and marketing director.

Brett Wendorf will take on a newly created role of national sales manager covering Queensland, Victoria and New Zealand and will now be based in Brisbane after five years spent commuting to Sydney.

At the same time, Trevor Thwaites has been promoted to an equivalent national sales manager role covering New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

He will continue to manage key national accounts but will also now manage the business development team across the four regions.

In other changes to the sales team, Lachlan Brett has been promoted to senior sales specialist, responsible for developing Princess Cruises’ home based agency networks and cruise specialist wholesalers and leading the support functions of inside sales & groups.

In the marketing team, Chloe Jones has been promoted to marketing manager and Lillian Canedo has been promoted to trade marketing specialist, whilst Andrea Jacob will continue to oversee the Academy Program.

Princess Cruises snr vp Asia- Pacific Stuart Allison paid tribute to Wendorf for his contribution while living away from his family.

The changes begin through Feb.