Tourico Holidays ramps up Asian talent search

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Tourico Holidays is ramping up its recruitment efforts in Asia through its Tourico Travel Academy.

The global travel wholesaler has revealed that the number of Asia-based applicants to its academy has tripled in the last year, outpacing all other regions. More than 50 Asian students are due to attend the company's next two academy sessions, representing 41% of total attendees.

"Over a quarter of our total Travel Academy graduates thus far have been students hailing from Asia, and they have all gone on to be vital employees within the company," said Kieran Le-Petit, Tourico's director of global recruitment. "For example, Xinxin Ou and Jiarui Li, graduates from our second session, are now leading key-account teams."

The Tourico Travel Academy, which launched in January of 2014, is taught by company executives, including a two-week lesson from the CEO of Tourico, Uri Argov. In the first two years the academy received more than 7,200 applications, including 1,550 from Ivy League graduates. But only 187 students, or 2% of applicants, have been accepted into the programme.

Tourico is now expanding the academy to more than 280 students in 2016 and 750 students per year by 2018.Tourico opened a new office in Shanghai in October 2015, serving as the company's technology hub for the Asia Pacific region. It also plans to launch offices in Chengdu and either Shenzhen or Guangzhou this year.

"As we increase our hands-on assistance and leadership in China and throughout Asia, we thought, 'who better to drive this change than hand-picked, qualified students from the region that have been trained in-house by company executives?'," said Le-Petit.


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