Tarrant joins the Oxford-based cruise line from Titan Travel, where he held several senior marketing positions including head of marketing, communications and offline marketing manager.

Prior to joining Titan, he worked for Kuoni and has amassed more than 20 years of experience in the travel industry.

Tarrant will work across all of the line’s trade and consumer marketing activity and alongside Voyages to Antiquity’s head of commercial, Michelle Daniels, to help grow agent sales.

He will report into managing director Joss Dewing.

Dewing said: “I’m thrilled to welcome Richard to the Voyages to Antiquity team. His impressive track record in working with household names within the travel sector brings valuable experience to our business.

"It is an extremely exciting time at Voyages to Antiquity with our first Cuba and Caribbean season about to start, followed by the new 2018 programme launch.”