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■ Abta to hold one-day travel conference
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Abta is to hold a Travel Matters conference in
London on June 3. The one-day conference at
the Riverbank Park Plaza in Westminster will be
open to 300 delegates. The event will also mark
Abta’s 60th anniversary. Online registration
opens on March 8.
down challenge
■ Sir Colin Chandler joins HolidayTaxis board
Chris Gray.
Progressive Personnel general
Former easyJet chairman Sir Colin Chandler TRAVEL COUNSELLORS chairman manager James Roberts said it had
has joined the board of
HolidayTaxis.com as a David Speakman has challenged made approaches to 12 counsel-
non-executive director. Sir Colin was chairman rival homeworking firms to “put lors, who were either registered
of easyJet for seven years before stepping down up or shut up” after claiming his with the agency, had expressed in-
last year and is currently chairman of software staff were being targeted in “un- terest in changing jobs on social
firm Clarity Commerce Solutions. derhand” tactics by recruitment networking sites or were friends of
■ Interview with easyJet’s Andy Harrison, p6 companies. people within his organisation.
Speakman (right) called on the “We don’t believe that head-
■ Hoseasons sold to US firm Wyndham for £51m recruitment companies, and the hunting is by any means under-
Self-catering operator Hoseasons has been sold homeworking firms they work for, to appear on hand,” he said.
to the US parent company of Holiday Cottages Travel Counsellors’ in-house television channel Roberts also claimed he “knew for a fact”
Group in a £51 million deal. Wyndham Worldwide, to debate who offered staff the best deal. other home working firms offered better terms.
which owns UK brands Cottages4you, Canvas “If they are confident they have something He added that he had told Speakman via one
Holidays and Blakes, purchased Hoseasons from better, they should go on a proper public plat- of his counsellors that Progressive Personnel was
its private equity owner HgCapital Trust. Wyndham form and say what they have to offer rather than creating a microsite where different home work-
has said it will be business as usual for Hoseasons, use this surreptitious and unethical way of doing ing firms could set out their terms so candidates
which employs 200 people at its head office in things. They should put up or shut up,” he said. could easily compare them.
Lowestoft, Suffolk. Speakman said his staff had been targeted in “To date we have had no response and would
four batches of unsolicited emails over two years. like to ask Travel Counsellors if they have decided
■ Ocean Village prepares two final voyages The latest emails came from Progressive Per- to participate?” he said.
Tickets for Ocean Village’s final cruise are to go sonnel, which approached counsellors to per- AA Appointments’ Debbee Dale said the
on sale from 8am on March 8. Two itineraries will suade them to quit and join the agency’s client’s agency did not send out emails unless a candi-
be on sale: “fond farewell” – a 23-night journey homeworking organisation, he said. He claimed date had registered with her company.
from Crete to Singapore departing on October 21, an earlier incident involved AA Appointments. Hays Travel group sales manager Linda Pyle
and “big goodbye” – a 30-night cruise which starts He added that the television debate would said its homeworking division did not use recruit-
a week earlier in Venice on October 14 before allow homeworkers to compare figures, propos- ment companies and had no plans to use them.
joining the shorter itinerary. Prices start at als, earnings, and performance of each company. Future Travel was unavailable for comment.
£1,889 for the 23-night journey.
■ FHA kicks off World’s Biggest Pub Quiz
The Family Holiday Association launched The
World’s Biggest Pub Quiz at the House of Commons
on Wednesday, with its quizmaster and star of
Hollyoaks and Casualty, James Redmond. The
event on March 25 will see a record number of
quizzes taking place to raise money for the charity.
Locate your nearest quiz at
bigpubquiz.org
■ Thomas Cook hits £750k for children fund
Thomas Cook staff and customers in the UK
raised more than £750,000 for disadvantaged
children last year according to the company’s an-
nual Sustainability Report. Cook has also become
the first major tour operator to publish an official
welfare policy for animals affected by tourism. RADIO STAR: Hays Travel’s “H-Factor” winner Jennifer Cowie (left) picks up a £4,000
Sharm el Sheikh holiday, presented by the Sunderland branch’s Madeline Hare (right) and
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