ABTA Announces One Day Domestic Conference - Travel Matters - Westminster 3 June
Date published: 23 February 2010
Travel Matters
3 June 2010
Riverbank Park Plaza, London, SE1 7TJ
ABTA today announced Travel Matters, a one day conference to be held on Thursday 3 June 2010 in Westminster. It will bring together leading travel personalities and political influencers to debate the most significant policy challenges facing the travel and tourism industry, and to understand how a new Government will approach the issues ahead.
The conference, which will be held at the Riverbank Park Plaza, will be open to 300 delegates from the travel industry, press and Government., As well as plenary sessions, there will be a number of focused discussion groups to allow important issues to be explored and debated. The day will finish with a Diamond Reception, providing an occasion for the industry, political stakeholders and media to connect, as well as an opportunity to mark ABTA’s sixtieth anniversary at the heart of travel.
Mark Tanzer, ABTA Chief Executive said: “Travel Matters is part of a family of events organised by ABTA to enable the travel industry to understand, debate and tackle the pressing issues ahead of us. There is a real appetite for an event that brings together industry practitioners and the wider group of stakeholders who are so important to us. This first conference will hold special significance because of the General Election, but I hope and fully expect that Travel Matters will become an established part of the travel industry calendar every year.
Luke Pollard, ABTA Head of Public Affairs said: “The way the travel industry will be regulated or taxed will be up for grabs with a new Government, and we need to use the Travel Matters conference to decide how we respond.”
Online registration for Travel Matters will open on Monday 8 March. The cost will be £300 plus VAT for ABTA Members, £400 plus VAT for Travel Industry Partners and £500 plus VAT for Non Members.
More information on the event, speakers, sessions and how to book will follow.
For further information
For further information contact:
Sean Tipton, Senior Press Officer, tel: 020 3117 0513, Frances Tuke, Public Relations Manager, tel: 020 3117 0514, Mobile 07850 712325, Casia Zajac, Head of Communications, tel: 020 3117 0515, Mobile: 0754 592 7411
Out of Hours: Contact the Duty Press Officer via pager: 07659 190987
E-mail: press@abta.co.uk
Web: www.abta.com
Notes to editors
ABTA – The Travel Association was founded in 1950 and currently has 1,351 members with 5,700 outlets. Members include travel agents, tour operators and support services right across the spectrum from small family-owned businesses to the largest tour operators.
ABTA is the largest travel association in the UK and its members provide 90% of the foreign package holidays in the UK as well as selling millions of independent travel arrangements.
In 2008 ABTA merged with the Federation of Tour Operators [FTO], thereby cementing its role as the leading travel association and increasing benefits for both ABTA and FTO members. Both the ABTA brand which is highly recognised by consumers and the FTO brand which is well known in destinations will be retained.
As part of its comprehensive package of services to members, ABTA, as a non-party political organisation works to represent the interests of its Members to government and key opinion formers in the UK and EU.
