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James Thornton: 'We're coming out of survival into revival'

Operators
James Chapple
27 August 2021

Few of us have got out much as we would have liked over the past 18 months.

James Thornton spoke out on the importance of science-based targets at the Abta Convention

"See you soon," I quip as I bid Intrepid Travel chief executive James Thornton farewell after a warm and welcome face-to-face catch-up at the firm’s south London HQ.

The pleasantries trip off the tongue without a hitch, the past year-and-a-half oh so nearly forgotten. And then it dawns on me. "Well, perhaps not that soon," I add. You think lockdown was bad here? Try living in Australia. Or more specifically, Thornton’s adopted home of Melbourne.