The DerPart travel agency
franchise has named Thomas Osswald as its new managing director. Osswald will
take over by 1 February 2022 at the latest and replaces Aquilin Schömig.
Osswald,
55, began his career in 1994 in the travel agency franchise sector in various
managerial positions at Lufthansa City Center Reisebüropartner and became its
managing director in 1999. From 2006 onwards, he was in charge of
franchise management at TUI Deutschland.
Since 2009, Osswald has held
various managerial positions at the Amadeus subsidiary i: FAO Group and at the
parent company Amadeus, including being director commercial for key customer relations,
commercial and key account services and currently strategy TMC partners at
Amadeus IT Group.
Andreas
Heimann, chairman of the supervisory board of DerPart, said: "I am
delighted that in Thomas Osswald we have won a highly experienced tourism
expert and proven expert for franchise systems."
Werner Papendick, deputy chairman,
said: "With his many years of high expertise in the areas of tourism,
business travel and IT, Thomas Osswald will run the DerPart franchise system
securely and in a future-oriented manner."