Hospitality executive search for hotels, travel operators, airports and leisure venues. Clients include G Adventures and AGS Airports.
Oryx provides hospitality executive search for hotel and venue operators, restaurant and food service groups, tour and adventure travel businesses, airports, visitor attractions and conference and training centres. Clients include G Adventures, Swoop Adventures, AGS Airports, London Biggin Hill Airport, ACC and Eastwood Park. Leadership in this sector is judged on a rare combination: commercial control of revenue, distribution and cost per available room or seat, alongside genuine operational presence with a large, dispersed and often seasonal workforce. We search for people who demonstrably hold both, across general management, operations, revenue and commercial, marketing and customer experience, and multi-site regional leadership. Our coverage spans branded and independent hotels, serviced apartments and student and co-living operators, pubs, bars and casual dining groups, contract catering, airports and aviation services, and outbound and adventure travel.
Birmingham Airport (BHX) is the seventh-busiest airport in the UK, serving over 13.6 million passengers annually. Located in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, it sits about 8 miles (13 km) east-southeast of Birmingham city centre. Oryx handled two projects; one to recruit a new Development and Construction Director, the other to recruit a new Head of Corporate affairs and Marketing.
In 1990 G-Adventures was launched by Bruce Poon Tip with the belief that other travellers would want to share his desire to experience authentic adventures in a responsible and sustainable manner. Today over 200,000 travellers experience the real world with G-Adventures every year; there are 2,200 employees worldwide in 28 offices, and the group offers more than 700 adventures spanning the globe. In 2017, Bruce acquired the former All Leisure Group’s escorted tour brands Travelsphere and Just You, and they have been re-launched in the UK as G-Touring. Working with the new UK CEO, Oryx has helped to strengthen the senior management team with the appointment of an Aviation Director, an E-Commerce Director and a People and Culture Partner.
The Liverpool Experience campus (LEX) is one of Europe’s leading entertainment complexes and is home to The M&S Bank Arena, BT Convention Centre and Exhibition Centre Liverpool. Originally conceived as part of a plan to help regenerate Liverpool city centre, boosting the local economy and helping to elevate the city’s profile, both nationally and internationally, ACC Liverpool has, since 2008, attracted more than 6 million visitors to more than 3,100 events and generated £1.3 billion in economic benefit for the local economy. Since 2011, Oryx has appointed a number of board Directors and Senior Managers, namely; Kerry Mulloy, Director of Events and Operations, Ben Williams, Commercial Director and Adrian Evans, Asst. Director Conference & Exhibition Sales. In mid-2020, Faye Dyer, the Corporate Services Director that we had placed was promoted to become MD.