Altour founder Alexandre Chemla will leave his position as CEO of the travel management company at the end of the year, Altour parent company Internova Travel Group announced on Friday.
Chemla started Altour in 1991, and he continued as its leader following its merger with Travel Leaders Group in 2017. Travel Leaders Corporate and Travel Leaders subsidiaries Tzell and Protravel merged under the Altour brand in 2020, and the former Travel Leaders Group reorganized into Internova.
Chemla “has made an extraordinary and lasting impact on our company and our industry,” Internova CEO J.D. O’Hara said in a statement. “Altour is a perfect fit with our Internova family of brands.”
Altour has not yet announced a succession plan following Chemla’s departure, and Chemla in a statement said that “there are many opportunities for the talented people at Altour, and I am confident that they are all in good hands at Internova Travel Group.”
