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Loveholidays CEO: Travel is no longer discretionary, it’s an essential part of people’s lives
Thursday 17 September 2026 5:07 am | Updated: Wednesday 16 September 2026 5:31 pm
Loveholidays CEO: Travel is no longer discretionary, it’s an essential part of people’s lives
By: Anna Moloney
Deputy Comment and Features Editor
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Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Loveholidays CEO Donat Rétif takes us through his career in Square Mile and Me
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Name: Donat Rétif Job title: CEO of Loveholidays Previous roles: CEO of Meteo Group, CEO of Truvo, VP sales of the US West Region of Verizon Age: 56 Born: Mons (Belgium) Lives: Hammersmith Studied: Masters in Business Engineering at UCLouvain (Belgium) & Université Laval (Canada) Talents: Sports in general as long as there is a ball Motto: Carpe diem Biggest perk of the job? Travel Coffee order: Caramel Macchiato Cocktail order: Old Fashioned Favourite book: Black Water Lilies by Michel BussiWhat was your first job?
A summer job when I was a student, placing plastic caps on syringes on an assembly........
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