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Your letters
Iata explains increase
in its accreditation fees
In response to your article “Iata backtrack over
unacceptable charges” on
ttglive.com, Iata has
Travel industry
not increased accreditation fees for travel agents.
The increases reported reflect the deteriora-
tion in sterling, since the fees are set in Swiss
francs and the local currency equivalents ad-
justed at the beginning of each year across
Europe, and are published on
iata.org.
is dog-eat-dog
The fees are then set by the Iata Passenger
Conference as defined in our resolutions, not
by the local APJC committee.
Iata appreciates the deterioration of the ex- IN RESPONSE to Wayne Fysh’s LET If the operators looked at their
change rate is unfortunate, but it does follow a letter last week – welcome to the
OF THE
TER
own costs first, they could all
50% average decrease of the fees affected in real world. survive, and so could the agents
2007 when Iata aligned the UK fees with Europe. As a small independent agent
WEEK
with enough clients for everyone,
we have been taking this for and come out with prices clients
Lorne Riley, assistant director, a number of years now, and guess could book in advance rather than
Iata Corporate Communications who the worst supplier is? Thomson (it even having to look for discounts.
protects its own shops by doing discounts not So as a multiple agent, stop whinging and
EDITOR SAYS: Abta said it is the first time it has available to us). start standing up for your rights like we have
seen an annual currency adjustment and fees I am glad to see you ask how do we had to do, and change the way we work just to
for UK agents have increased 30% as a result. compete? Well, that has been our feeling for make a crust, with so called support-friendly
a long time now, and until tour operators such suppliers like tour operators.
Operators help Yorkshire as Thomas Cook and Thomson give an even After all, none of the operators would be
Air Ambulance Charity playing field, then live with it just as we have where they are today if in the past – before
Thanks to all the 24 operators who turned up had to do, hoping this nonsense will play out. the march of the multiple own-branded travel
for our charity road show on February 8 in If you want to start throwing stones, agent – independents did not support them.
Boston Spa, Leeds. Over 300 people turned up can we suggest it starts with sorting out And who are the first to be dropped?
and the operators helped us raise £1,700 for one’s own home first. Then maybe we can You tell us.
the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity. all get back to the industry we once were,
rather than the dog-eat-dog situation we are Trevor Banner.
Paul Dayson, managing partner, Spa Travel now in. Owner, Dovehouse Travel, West Midlands
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