26th Apr 2006 12:47
Travelzest plc26 April 2006 Date: 26 April 2006 On behalf of: Travelzest plc ("Travelzest" or the "Company") For immediate release Travelzest plc Result of Annual General Meeting The Board of Travelzest plc, the British travel group offering specialist travelprogrammes and services, is pleased to announce that at the Company's AGM heldat 12pm today, Wednesday 26 April, all resolutions were duly passed byshareholders. The Board of Travelzest also took this opportunity to welcome Colin McKinlay andNishma Robb, who both joined the Company in April. Colin joins the Board ofTravelzest as Group Finance Director from Thomas Cook UK & Ireland where heserved as Chief Financial Officer. Nishma Robb, previously Managing Director ofTeletext Holidays, has taken up her role as Group Distribution Director, withresponsibility for developing the Group's online capability. The Board looks forward to the coming year with confidence as we deliver ourstrategy to build a pre-eminent group in the travel industry. Enquiries: Travelzest plc 020 7747 7231Christopher Mottersheadwww.travelzestplc.com Redleaf Communications 020 7955 1410Emma Kane/Samantha Robbins/Duncan McCormick The Group currently comprises: VFB Holidays - a long established, award winning tour operator. VFB iscurrently contracted with the owners of approximately 350 holiday cottagesthroughout France, and has booking arrangements with over 150 hotels, most ofwhich are privately owned and are located in rural or semi-rural locations. VFBspecialises in cottage holidays in France, but also has a number of otherholiday programmes including: France a la Carte (hotel accommodation), Corsica,Short Breaks, Escorted Tours and River Cruises. Holiday Express - one of the UK's leading on-line travel agents which last yearprovided holidays for approximately 24,000 passengers. Holiday Express is atravel agent specialising in on-line travel fulfilment services and onlinetravel sales. Holiday Express' retail business (acting as travel agent),providing package holidays, charter flights and ski booking services, accountsfor the vast majority of its revenue and the remainder of its revenue isgenerated through acting as a tour operator. Holiday Express owns a number oftravel website domain names, including: - www.holiday.co.uk - www.flight.co.uk - www.discountholidays.com Best of Morocco is a tour operator specialising in high quality, tailor-madeholidays to Morocco for individuals or small groups. It provides apersonalised service and its highly experienced and knowledgeable staff helpeach customer select the hotels / resorts from their large range which areappropriate for the customer's desired style of holiday. Best of Morocco is thepremier agent for the Marathon des Sables, a foot race that takes place acrossthe Sahara Desert in Morocco in April each year, covering some 230km. Best ofMorocco provides the largest contingent of runners for the race each year. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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