Changes at the top in Denmark

First Choice Holidays has announced that MyPlanet International and Hannibal & Marco Polo are now under the managing directorship of René Andersen.

MyPlanet’s former managing director Annelise Dam Larsen left the business on August 17, after 28 years with the company, the last nine years as managing director.

There will now be a move towards greater synergies between MyPlanet and Hannibal & Marco Polo: and given its annual turnover of more than half a billion Danish kroner, it will create a very powerful unit on the Scandinavian travel market.

Business to Australia alone from the two companies stands at 15,000 guests annually. MyPlanet and Hannibal & Marco Polo will continue their business as two independent brands.

René Andersen will be responsible for MyPlanet’s 95 employees in Holstebro, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Sydney, together with Hannibal & Marco Polo´s 46 employees in Aarhus and Copenhagen.

For the Australian division of MyPlanet it is business as usual and they will continue to report into MyPlanet in Denmark.