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Gavin Tollman
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Main Areas: Travel, Tours, LeisureAffiliation: Trafalgar, The Travel Corporation
Gavin Tollman is the CEO of Trafalgar, one of the world’s leading travel brands, and Chairman at The Travel Corporation (TTC) South Africa. He takes leisure travel seriously and is promoting changes in the tourism industry that are in line with the way his clients want to spend their travel time. The company is also currently spearheading a new campaign for travel to and from Asia. The Chinese travel market is the world’s fastest growing market for both inbound and outbound tourism and through Trafalgar, Gavin Tollman develops complicated itineraries suitable for the Chinese population, providing them with an understanding of their chosen location and travel to destinations like Europe, America and Australia.
Climbing the Tourism Ladder
Although he currently makes his home in Switzerland, Gavin Tollman was born in South Africa. He went to the American University to study for a degree in finance, but his familial roots in travel and tourism led him down the same path. He began with a position as Executive Vice President of Buckhead Hotel Management Company in 1987. He took care of all of the hotel’s operations as well as negotiations with third parties. With his keen background in finance, he excelled in assisting third party ownership with debt restructuring during a trying period of financial upheaval in the hotel industry. He later moved to the US division of Trafalgar in 1997 and as its President he managed the American operations. In this initial position at Trafalgar, he was successful in growing the company to be the largest European tour operator working out of the US. After four years he became President of The Travel Corporation in North America, and was responsible for the sales, marketing and everyday operations for Trafalgar, Contiki Holidays, Insight Vacations, AAT Kings in Canada and the US and Destination America.
As the worldwide sales manager for Trafalgar in 2003, Gavin Tollman was not only in charge of the company’s sales, but also product delivery, operations and development. During this period, he was also a non-executive director at Cullinan Holdings Limited and since 2010 he has been a non-executive director at Wilderness Safaris. Currently, as Chairman at The Travel Corporation S.A., he handles the international web strategy of TTC and identifies new business opportunities. As the CEO of Trafalgar, Gavin Tollman is responsible for sales, promotion, development and operations.
Reaching Out to South Africa
Gavin Tollman was present at TTC’s 2010 Global Conference held in South Africa. During the course of the meetings, he emphasized the special efforts being made to encourage international tourism to South Africa. He also partnered with his uncle, Stanley Tollman, in a gift of R 525,000 to the renal department at South Africa’s Groote Schuur Hospital.
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