Colin O'Neill, Sales and Marketing Director

For the past ten years Colin O’Neill has been sales and marketing director for Advantage, the UK’s leading independent travel agency consortium. He is responsible for all marketing and communications activity across the group, which includes building member affinity with Advantage and growing the Advantage brand proposition with consumers.

Graduating from university with a communications degree, Colin held a variety of sales roles within the FMCG sector in companies including Rothmans International. He then moved into the travel sector with Sealink where, in the role of national sales manager, he was heavily involved in integrating Sealink into the private sector. Six years later he joined Thomson Holidays as general sales manager responsible for development of a travel trade distribution strategy. In 1998, O’Neill joined Forte Hotels as group sales director, responsible for managing leisure sector hotel contracting worldwide including the UK coach business. He joined Advantage in 2000.