About Antor

Tracey Poggio

Tracey Poggio

Gibraltar Tourist Board

Tracey has worked in the travel industry for over 25 years, having started her career in tour operation. Moving into PR, she worked for city media and marketing agency, P.G.C. for 8 years, before becoming a founding Director of dotcom PR, a specialist online agency that went on to win the Docklands new business of the Year 1999. Tracey has worked extensively throughout her career with the Gibraltar Tourist Board and heads up its UK marketing team.

Nadine Rankin heads up the UK representation for the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board in The Bahamas, which her company has represented for 34 years. As a Marketing and Modern Languages graduate of Salford University, Nadine started her travel industry career as a travel rep in Mallorca as part of her year abroad in 1986. She stayed in tour operating after uni, working for Intasun Holidays and Kuoni Travel in their head offices, before entering the world of representation in 1993. Nadine joined the ANTOR board in 2015 and currently holds the responsibility of Treasurer.

Caroline is a board member of Antor and is currently heading up sales and marketing in the UK for Visit Finland. She has worked for over 15 years in Travel and Tourism industry.

Gabriel has an extensive travel industry experience from the Scandiavian, UK and Dutch markets. As a Senior Travel Trade Manager at Visit Sweden for the UK & US markets, Gabriel heads up all travel trade relations on these markets for Visit Sweden. Gabriel is also Country Manager for Visit Sweden in the UK, based at the Visit Sweden office in London.

Katarina is a Professional with over ten years of experience in the travel industry, well versed in all aspects of destination branding and promotion. Highly experienced in implementing destination branding strategy on the UK and Irish markets. She represents the Czech Republic in cooperative local, regional, and statewide promotional efforts; develops and maintains a
positive relationship with the business community and maintains public awareness of tourism to Czech Republic and advertising opportunities.

Tolene van der Merwe is the Director; UK & Ireland for VisitMalta. Having started her travel career over 25 years ago in South Africa for a luxury inbound tour operator, Tolene has looked after marketing for luxury five star hotels and hotel groups before moving to the UK in 2005. Since being in the UK she worked for an African specialist based in London as Product Manager before starting her own representation company, with a portfolio of boutique hotels and experiences all complimenting each other. When the role of Hub Head for South African tourism in the UK became available Tolene saw the chance to represent her country in a significant way and took on the role for five years where along with a fantastic team saw arrivals grow to South Africa year on year. In 2019 Tolene moved over to the Malta Tourism Authority and has been in the Director role leading the UK and Ireland marketing with a fantastic team in support.

Caroline Hadfield is the Business Development Manager for Visit Isle of Man and is responsible for developing the island’s profile and trade relations across the UK and European markets. Her extensive experience comes from having worked in the travel industry throughout her entire career, specialising in sales and marketing and product development for leading tour operators, retail travel and hospitality companies.

After studying Korean at university and previously working for the Korean Cultural Centre UK, Ruby joined the Korea Tourism Organisation in 2020 and now heads up B2B and B2C marketing for the London office.