Ex-Regent Holidays director and historian Neil Taylor has been awarded an MBE for services to UK/Estonia relations, having been one of the first people to sell holidays to Estonia as an independent country in 1992.
Holidays to Estonia and the other Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania could only be sold as escorted tours combined with Russia while they were part of the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991.
All three became independent nations that year, and non-group tours and city breaks became possible.
Taylor joined Regent Holidays to open its Bristol office in 1975. He became a director and worked there until 2003, also becoming a board member of both Abta and Aito.
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