Industry Moves: Travelocity CEO Peluso To Leave
Travelocity CEO Michelle Peluso is packing her bags and will leave the online travel agency early next month. She’ll be replaced by Hugh Jones, who most recently served as chief operating officer for the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions businesses. Sabre Holdings is Travelocity’s parent company.
Peluso came to Travelocity in 2002, when the company acquired online travel site Site59.com, which she founded. Transitioning from CEO of Site59, Peluso became Travelocity’s COO a year later. At the end of 2003, she was became president and CEO. Over the past year, as other vertical categories started seeing slower growth, travel-related sites were still holding their own. Whether that will continue as the recession takes hold is unclear. Jones, who had served as a financial controller for American Airlines, was likely singled out to succeed Peluso because of his background. No word on Peluso’s next move.
Posted In: Industry Moves, hugh jones, michelle peluso, travelocity
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