Breakfast briefing

ABTA Breakfast Briefings – Payments Outlook 2025

    27 January 2025
    8:15 – 10:55
  • Venue:
    ABTA, 30 Park Street, London, SE1 9EQ

Event details

Enjoy breakfast with industry colleagues while receiving a succinct overview of the key payment challenges and trends in Travel for 2025. Speakers at the pulse of the industry will share their insights and predictions to help you stay ahead of the curve in 2025.

Hear what finance leaders in the travel industry are most concerned about for the year ahead. Discover the core takeaways from the Worldpay Global Payments Report, both for global and European markets, and get insights into the latest developments in digital wallets, alternative payment methods and what they will mean for your payments strategy. Learn more about how best to understand and address security and fraud concerns as payments become more digital.

Speakers and a detailed agenda will be published shortly.

Speakers

Ade Taiwo, Finance Director, UK – Internova Travel Group

Ade Taiwo serves as Finance Director for Internova Travel Group in the UK, overseeing financial operations for the network of UK brands namely, Global Travel Collection, ALTOUR  and Your Event Solutions.

He holds over 28 years of experience in the travel industry and wide-ranging experience in Finance, Human Resources, and IT. A trained Accountant, he started his travel industry career in 1995 at The Appointment Group in London. Whilst there, he grew within the business from an Accountant of one of its subsidiaries to Group Finance Director with director responsibilities overseeing Finance, Human Resources and IT functions. In this role, he was involved in the strategic planning and implementing the grow plans of the business worldwide. He was responsible for the establishment of the US (New York & Los Angeles) and Australia (Melbourne & Sydney) Companies and was also the lead on all the acquisitions made by the company.

He departed The Appointment Group after twenty years and joined Global Travel Collection, in the UK as Finance Director, subsequently taking on responsibilities across Internova Travel Group in the UK.

Ade holds a BA in Accounting & Finance from the University of Greenwich and sits as the Finance Huddle Chair for the Business Travel Association (BTA).

Who should attend?

The event is ideal for senior leaders and financial/payments professionals from large and small companies within the travel industry, including the following:
 

  • CEOs and directors
  • Finance directors and managers
  • Finance, audit, payments and treasury teams.

Event prices

ABTA Breakfast briefings are open to ABTA members only.

Please contact events@abta.com for availability.

We kindly ask registered attendees to let us know if they can no longer attend the event. Please help up reduce food waste and free up the limited spaces available for other interested members if you can no longer attend.

Maximum three attendees per company.

*To qualify as a ABTA member you must have a current ABTA member number or your application must be in progress when the event takes place.

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