If you have to be selling something, aren’t holidays a wonderful thing to be selling?

At just 31, Tanya Airey took the helm of Sunway Travel. Since then, the family business has gone from strength to strength

Tanya Airey Pic: Fergal Phillips

CV: Tanya Airey

Role: managing director, Sunway Travel

Family: husband Philip and three grown-up children, Jamie, Laura and Max

Hobbies: golf, tennis, walking and reformer Pilates

Favourite movie: The Shawshank Redemption

Last book read: Boomerang by Michael Lewis

It seems appropriate to be meeting Tanya Airey on a morning when the wind is howling, the rain is coming down in sheets, and the temperature is well below where it should be for July.