Tourism Toronto Opens London Office, Puts Gill Sage at the Helm

Tourism Toronto, The Toronto Convention and Visitors Association, opened its London sales office and appointed Gill Sage as Account Director for the U.K. meetings and incentive travel market.

In a newly created position as Account Director for the U.K Corporate and incentive market, Ms. Gill Sage joins Tourism Toronto to help advance the organization’s sales initiatives targeting the U.K.

With two decades of sales experience, Ms. Sage brings to Tourism Toronto strong knowledge and contacts in the U.K. market. She most recently held the position of Head of Sales, Airport Express Alliance in London, and previous to that held the position of Director, Charter and Incentive Sales for Carnival Corporation.

Tourism Toronto estimates 317,000 U.K. visitors traveled to Toronto last year making it the city’s second-highest year for U.K. visitors and an increase of 7 percent since 2004.

Tourism Toronto has sales offices with full-time sales teams in Chicago, Washington, DC, Ottawa, Mississauga, Ontario and Markham, Ontario.