Travel Counsellors boosts corporate sales team with new hires

Travel Counsellors for Business has strengthened its corporate sales and business development team with two new appointments.

The Manchester-based homeworking specialist has recruited Athenee Graham as senior business development manager. Graham joins Travel Counsellors following spells at Corporate Travel Management and corporate immigration specialist Newland Chase.

Meanwhile, Ricky Gudgeon has joined Travel Counsellors as a business development manager. He also previously worked for Corporate Travel Management, as well as at Corporate Traveller USA.

The pair join the company’s corporate sales and business development team, led by head of business development Wayne Durkin, who joined Travel Counsellors earlier this year.

Mel Quinn, Travel Counsellors for Business’ director of corporate, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welcome Athenee and Ricky to the business development team. 

“The wealth of experience, passion for corporate travel and dedicated skillset between the team will be essential in not only supporting new corporate travel business, but also sees them work closely with our corporate Travel Counsellors to ensure that the strong relationships we forge with our clients right at the beginning of their journey with us continue to grow.”

Quinn added that “further growth” was planned in 2025 with “traveller wellbeing at the forefront of our client care approach”.

Travel Counsellors for Business previously announced that corporate travel accounted for £265 million of its total £1 billion sales for the year ending on 23 August.

The company was also listed as the 13^th largest TMC in the UK and the 22^nd biggest in Europe in the list of Europe’s Leading TMCs 2024.