Brighton joins Atas to drive growth and events
Te Association of Touring & Adventure Suppliers (Atas) has appointed Claire Brighton as account director. Brighton will join Atas on
March 9 from Te Advantage Travel Partnership, where she has spent nine years as commercial account manager and senior commercial manager. Prior to Advantage, she worked for Tomas Cook TV and TV Travel Shop. Brighton will be responsible for
supporting and growing the supplier, associate and agent membership of Atas and developing the association’s existing training and events portfolio. Paul Melinis, chairman of Atas
and UK and Ireland managing director of APT, said: “Claire brings strong account management skills and commercial awareness, and understands the expectations and requirements of suppliers and agents within a membership organisation. “Claire joins us at an exciting time
as Atas enters its fourth year, and we look forward to welcoming her drive as we target further growth for the association and the sector in 2020.” Brighton said: “I look forward to
meeting the members and as many agents as possible to explore what they would like to see from what is a relatively new organisation. “Te touring and adventure sector
Atas has a crucial
role to play to ensure it is front-of-mind for agents and their customers
is full of innovation and has so much to offer, and Atas has a crucial role to play to ensure it is front-of-mind for agents and their customers.” Atas was formed in April 2017 as
a partnership between Travel Weekly and 12 leading suppliers. In three years, it has grown to
more than 50 supplier and associate
Virgin Voyages is now bookable via Virgin Atlantic Flightstore
Virgin Voyages has begun offering cruise packages on booking portal Virgin Atlantic Flightstore. It can be used to package up Virgin Voyages itineraries with Virgin Atlantic and Delta Air Lines flights, and add pre and post-cruise hotels. First ship Scarlet Lady will sail from April. Agents earn 10% commission on all components.
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members in addition to a trade membership covering retail, home- based and online travel agents. Atas is commited to growing
awareness and sales of touring and adventure holidays through the travel trade and provides a single voice for the leading suppliers in the sector. In addition to a standalone
website, and print and digital communications, its annual conference is atended by more than 350 delegates. Visit
touringandadventure.com. Brighton can be contacted
from March 9 on
claire.brighton@
touringandadventure.com.
One Ocean Expeditions cruise
line to enter administration One Ocean Expeditions said this week it was preparing to enter administration. The Canada-based polar specialist cruise line has cancelled several sailings since November. It has written to agencies outlining how to claim refunds. However, the company’s website was still operational on Tuesday.
Excite failure raises ‘more questions than answers’
Administrators for Australian wholesaler Excite Holidays said there are “more questions than answers” around the firm’s demise. Te company ceased trading
on January 10. Phone calls to the London office were being referred to KPMG. Excite Holidays Europe posted
on its Facebook page on December 30 that it was “experiencing system issues, which have affected a number of our bookings and calls”. Morgan Kelly, restructuring
services partner at KPMG Australia, said: “We are at the very beginning stage of the administration process, where there are more questions than answers. “We have now commenced an
urgent assessment of the business and further information will be made available to affected parties as soon as possible.” Excite was set up in 2002 and
has offices in Greece, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Tailand, the UK and the US. As well as hotels, the business
sold adventure and cultural tours, and ferry and transfer services. Te Advantage Travel
Partnership leisure director Kelly Cookes said Excite was a “relatively small” partner but an “important one to some members that did
bigger volumes”. i Get Social, page 39
Explore pledges to be carbon neutral by offsetting flights
Explore is to offset all flights and ground operations using carbon credits and has promoted yield and capacity manager Prue Stone to head of sustainability. The operator claims to be the first in the UK to become carbon neutral. It was also one of six founding companies of industry collective Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency this week.
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