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John Lovell, CTC, Travel Leaders Franchise, Consortium and Leisure Group

Travel Leaders Franchise, Consortia and Leisure Group

John Lovell, CTC, is President of Travel Leaders Franchise, Consortium Leisure Group, which is part of Travel Leaders Group, a North American travel company that generates gross travel sales of approximately $20 billion and directly employs over 1,000 staff managing operations of more than 6,500 company-owned, franchised and affiliated travel agencies in the United States, Canada, Greece, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia. Travel Leaders Franchise, Consortium and Leisure Group is so vast that it has operations in each of those countries. While Travel Leaders Group is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Lovell is based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Mr. Lovell is responsible for the strategic operations, sales, marketing and overall growth of Travel Leaders Group’s travel agency franchise businesses, including Results! Travel  and the flagship Travel Leaders  brand; the company’s travel agency consortium, Vacation.com. which includes the Cruise Holidays  brand; and all of the company’s wholly-owned leisure businesses, including All Aboard Travel , Cruise Holidays , Cruise Specialists , CruiseDeals.com , Elite Journeys  and SinglesCruise.com .

Travel Leaders Group was formed when the management team of Carlson Leisure Group (CLG) acquired CLG’s extensive portfolio of businesses from Carlson in January 2008. Each of the wholly-owned leisure operations and all of the franchise businesses were part of that acquisition.

Prior to taking on responsibilities for all of Travel Leaders Group’s franchise and leisure operations, Mr. Lovell first served as the President of Vacation.com. a role he has maintained since 2011. He also serves on numerous Advisory Boards, including Azamara Club Cruises, Travel Insured International and Starwood Hotels and Resorts, among others. Mr. Lovell formerly served as a member of the Board of Directors for both Tourism Cares and the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA).

From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Lovell served as Vice President of Sales, Industry Relations and Revenue Management for Vacation.com. where he was responsible for all sales activities in the United States and for managing and overseeing preferred supplier negotiations and relationships, as well as expanding marketing and revenue opportunities. Mr. Lovell was originally hired to serve as Vacation.com ’s Vice President of Sales and Business Development in January of 2002.

Prior to Vacation.com. Mr. Lovell held the position of Director of Travel Industry Sales at ANC Rental Corporation, where he was responsible for all car rental sales activity within the travel agency, tour operator, travel association and government channels.

Previous to his employment at ANC, Mr. Lovell served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Renaissance Travel Solutions, where he was responsible for increasing the Baltimore-based tour operator’s brand presence by establishing the brand offerings of Adventure Vacations, Sea World Busch Gardens Vacations, Spirit Vacations, AirTran Vacations and Frontier Airlines Vacations. Before that, Mr. Lovell spent two years at the Hertz Corporation as Regional Sales and Marketing Manager for the state of Florida and nine years in the tobacco industry, working his way up to Director of Global Accounts at BAT Industries while based in London.

About Travel Leaders  Leisure Group

Travel Leaders Leisure Group serves worldwide travelers through distinct, company-owned and franchise leisure travel brands. Each brand specializes in its own unique niche in the travel industry ranging from luxury cruises and tours to singles cruises, value-priced cruises, packaged cruise and land vacations and full-service leisure travel opportunities. Travel Leaders Leisure Group brands have been honored with many Gold and Silver Magellan Awards for excellence in marketing.

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