Navigatr Group has announced the appointment of Andrew Dyer as Executive Vice President of Travel Partner Relations. Dyer will lead this new division of Navigatr Central Services working with partners across all Navigatr brands to build relationships with partners and improve outcomes, including the sourcing of supplier inventories across all verticals including air, hotel, cruise, car rental, insurance, and tours & activities.
Navigatr Group includes several travel brands – all of which are operated independently with separate leadership teams for each. This includes Kensington Tours, a luxury tour operator, Travel Edge Network, a luxury host network; Travel Edge, a leisure & corporate travel agency and Ensemble; a travel agency consortium; and TripArc, a travel technology company.
“With Navigatr’s travel volume exceeding $3 billion in 2022, we believe we can drive greater value and outcomes by centralizing the partner relations operations to ensure a more cohesive and holistic approach to working with our partners to drive greater value for our partners as well as our members,” said Jeff Willner, CEO of Navigatr Group.
“We also want to ensure that we prioritize the relationships that are at the core of our business whether its members of our consortium, advisors in our host agency network, retail and corporate clients or our travel partner suppliers."
In moving the procurement role and responsibilities from TripArc to Navigatr with the creation of this new position, TripArc will now focus solely on Navigatr’s travel technology platforms, including its proprietary technology and booking platform, ADX (Agent Digital Experience).
In his new role, Dyer also intends to focus on building Navigatr’s long-term relationships with its partners and on ensuring that each brand within the group understands the priorities of its partners and focuses on achieving those goals.
Dyer was most recently head of Expedia Group’s Global Connectivity & Partner Solutions team, with responsibility for connectivity strategy and commercial relationships with global distribution system (GDS) partners and other airline, car rental, hotel, and vacation rental connectivity providers.
