Each November the SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment sales, marketing and PR team attend the world’s biggest travel trade exhibition, World Travel Market, to forge new relationships and catch up with our existing partners.

There are a host of prestigious parties organised, with Virgin Holidays being one of the more spectacular, with guests encouraged to get involved in the theme for the year. This year’s theme was ‘Olympics – London to Rio’, therefore the team came together to forge ‘Team SEA’ the ultimate boxing combination, including the following competing ‘weights’:

Super Heavy Weight – Dave Ody

Lightweight – Simon Parry

Paperweight – Ruth Roseweir

Featherweight – Lucy Quilliam

Unfortunately the team missed out on the ‘best costume’ award, however they were praised for braving the cold in shorts.

Q. What do you get when you cross Ruth Roseweir, Marketing Manager at Cubo, with water?

A. A nervous wreck…..

Ruth has a fear of water… and breathing under it, so when she found herself submerged in a tropical reef surrounded by 2,000 fish, rays and even sharks at Discovery Cove’s SeaVenture attraction, let’s just say she was rather ‘sea-shell’ shocked.

Ruth was hosting eight travel agents on a recent familiarisation trip to SeaWorld Parks in Florida as part of our ongoing trade marketing activity to showcase the latest park attractions.

As the group prepared to experience the park’s newest diving attraction, there were reservations from various people, including Ruth, as to whether they could dive with ‘respiratory problems’. But Ruth wasn’t so lucky, as the tour caters for people with asthma and has various procedures which ensure everyone can have a go. Lucky Ruth.

So here she is, the first Cuboid to try out the new underwater walking tour, coming face to fin with venomous lionfish, sharks and spotted eagle rays. And look, she’s loving it, and so did the agents who are now raving about the experience to their customers!

Fellow Cuboids Ruth Roseweir and Lucy Quilliam relived a childhood dream a few nights ago at a News of the World knees up.  And interestingly by the looks of this photo, Vanilla Ice was pretty stoked by things too.  Dave Ody, or ‘Rainman’ as he’s known for his impressive ability to crunch numbers, managed to send an Elvis Presley lookalike to sleep though with his insights on algorithms and ECRM.

This year, we’re giving the gift of giving.

Our resident elf has filled his sack with twelve pleasurable prezzies to bring some Yuletide cheer to the streets of W1, putting smiles on the faces of humbugs and revelers alike.

With a helping hand from his glamorous opera-singing sidekick, the people of London could hardly believe their luck…

Enjoy!