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Mark Tanzer: ‘There is a


motivational and leadership aspect to finding the bright side of things to help people through challenging times’


Tanzer explains rationale for forum’s upbeat theme


Travel Convention 2025 preview: Ian Taylor talks to Abta’s chief executive “There is a lot of conflict and a


Abta confirmed the theme for its 2025 Travel Convention in Calvià, Majorca, as ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’ in May, against a background of appalling suffering in Gaza, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, missile exchanges between India and Pakistan, and rising tension over US imposition of tariffs on trade. Chief executive Mark Tanzer


offers two key reasons in explanation, saying: “If you stack up all the challenges in the world, it’s easy to feel the picture is bleak.


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political dynamic which is much more unilateral than multilateral in terms of tariffs and borders closing, plus we have the challenge of climate change and decarbonising. “If you look at it purely from a


headline point of view, you might be depressed and think travel’s prospects aren’t good. But within some of the challenges there are ways that things might improve.” As an example, he points to how the US threat to withdraw


from Europe’s defence “has forced European countries to take a more realistic view of how Europeans are going to look after ourselves”, adding: “From a UK perspective, where Brexit pushed us away [from Europe], this sucks us back into the fact that we’re Europeans. We have a lot of shared interests and that starts with defence.” He suggests the UK will “go into negotiations on a trade and


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