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EVENT PLANNING.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY.
Aito Week to be reviewed
AITO WEEK is to be reviewed after last year’s
Traveltime to expand
event failed to gain support from agents.
The event is designed to drive sales through AITO Specialist Travel Agents chairman Barry around April last year and it had been “bumping
Aito Specialist Travel Agents with special promo- Moxley is planning to open a sixth Traveltime along” since then but was now getting more
tions from Aito tour operators for one week. shop to take advantage of an upturn he believes healthy, and he believed the wider economy was
It took place for the second time in October will come later this year. at a turning point.
last week but delegates at the Specialist Travel The shop will be in a similar type of area to his “I think there is every sign of it otherwise we
Agents conference at the weekend were told only existing shops in the south east of England would not be taking a risk – but we are not
one agency supported the event. in Gerrards Cross, Beaconsfield, Crowthorne, betting the business on it.
Conference moderator Catherine Leech said Frimley and Watlington. Moxley is already “We have been through a number of reces-
the event would now be rethought before finalis- looking at some empty sions and when you have 16
ing plans for this year. It could possibly be held in properties. or 17 years in the business
the spring, rather than the autumn. “The recession has meant you get to know and recog-
“It is not really producing the amount of there are opportunities in nise the trends.”
business for the agents, in the agents’ eyes, but high streets where you have Moxley said Traveltime
it is a huge amount of work for the head office not been able to get prem- would make a small profit in
team. There is no point in Aito producing this if it ises for years. the year to the end of Sep-
is not going to be supported,” she said. “We are looking at some tember last year, although it
Aito Specialist Travel Agents chairman Barry place in areas where there was below target. A bigger
Moxley said he believed there was still a role for are discerning travellers,” profit the year before had
the event as it was useful for agents and opera- he said. provided reserves to cushion
tors but the organisation needed to think about He said the recession for the business during the
how it was developed. Traveltime bottomed out Barry Moxley: recession means opportunities downturn, he said.
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