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NEW! Head of Finance (Interim
Salary: Salary £43k pro rata
Location: London

Our client, an online company, is seeking to recruit an interim Head of Finance for maternity cover. This is a key role and one that manages the Finance Department, ensuring all accounting records and controls are accurately maintained. To be successful in this role you must be professionally qualified or QBE - ACCA, CIMA or equivalent; have technical accounting skills and excellent MS Excel skills. You must also have the ability to manage a small team.

NEW! Financial Controller
Salary: Salary c£50-55k
Location: Home Counties

Our client is currently seeking a commercially astute Financial Controller to assist in shaping and driving the business forward. The role will have a strong commercial bias in providing insights into and influencing the commercial, product and marketing strategies to improve processes and margins. This represents a unique opportunity to make a difference in an exciting, consumer facing business in a highly visible role and should attract a bright and ambitious Financial Controller.

NEW! Purchasing Manager - Spanish Speaking
Salary: Salary Negotiable plus benefits
Location: Anywhere

Our client is seeking a purchasing manager to contribute to the planning process and to contract a reliable programme of overseas accommodation & services to cater for the required volume in quality, value for money beds in line with Destination, Brand and Product Line strategies within agreed time frames. For this role you must have a minimum of 2 years experience in a tour-operating environment, with the ability to negotiate in Spanish.

Leaders count cost of swine flu

20 May 2009

Global travel leaders have called for an urgent review of the World Health Organisation's classification system in light of the swine flu outbreak.

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) said WHO terminology designations are based on the geographic spread of the virus and not on its severity.

The WHO alert for swine flu is currently at phase five, with level six officially representing a pandemic. But delegates at the WTTC Global Travel and Tourism Summit in Brazil said the terminology was misleading.

WTTC president and chief executive Jean-Claude Baumgarten commented: ‘Every effort should be made to ensure we avoid unnecessary alarm.’

However, Geoffrey Lipman, assistant secretary general of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), said any potential second wave of the virus could affect the industry a lot more.

The overall impact of such a pandemic, according to research by the WTTC and Oxford Economics, could be losses of more than $2,200bn in the global travel economy, spread over late 2009 and into 2010.

See also:
Carnival outlines swine flu impact (19/05/2009)
Mexico to launch PR campaign (15/05/2009)
Swine flu: Brits warned against Mexico travel (28/04/2009)

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