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Aito brings HQ team back up to full strength with two new hires
Christina Brazier joins the association as head of industry affairs while Emma Taylor joins as head of membership
Valladolid to host 2024 Aito conference in November
The event will be held over 21-24 November
Rail seen as 'serious alternative' to flying by more than half of travellers
However, less than half of those polled by Aito said sustainable travel was a significant factor when planning a holiday
Majority would forgo free holiday to country deemed unsafe by FCDO
A poll of 4,000 travellers found three-quarters would turn down a free holiday to a destination where the FCDO had issued a travel warning
Operational issues and recruitment challenges easing – Aito
Association reveals more findings from its latest business confidence tracker survey
Pioneering tour operator and Aito co-founder Colin Murison Small dies aged 93
Following the collapse of Court Line Holidays in 1975, Murison Small decided to gather smaller tour operators to discuss how they could pay the huge bond bill
Record levels of confidence among specialist travel businesses – Aito
Nearly 80% of Aito members reported year-on-year increases in turnover during the final quarter of 2023, with more than six in 10 hopeful of an increase in full-year turnover this year
Aito commercial director Bharat Gadhoke to leave association in the new year
Aito said Gadhoke was moving on ’after a near ten-year stint at the coalface of membership affairs’, characterised by executive director Martyn Sumners as ten years of "frankly, hard slog’
Specialists identify group bookings and longer lead-in times as biggest challenges
Aito conference delegates heard local partners are becoming less inclined to welcome group bookings as they seek to diversify their clientele
Aito hires 'all-rounder' Amy Waller to fill new marketing role
Amy Waller will be responsible for Aito’s marketing communications, including collateral, website and social media
Ex-Haslemere Travel boss remembered as ‘quintessential English gent’
Andrew Brownrigg, who also chaired Aito’s Specialist Agents group, died aged 80 earlier this month
Industry urges govt to grasp the nettle after ministers lift lid on new package rules
Key proposals include deregulating domestic holidays, setting a minimum cost threshold for package rules to apply, scrapping Linked Travel Arrangements and clarifying the redress from third parties rule
Up to 30 MPs ready to meet agents following industry lobby effort
Advantage Travel Partnership and Aito launch MP engagement programme off the back of National Travel Agents’ Day
Aito members upbeat but still facing post-pandemic challenges
Aito members detail upbeat outlook but voice concerns over staffing and contracting
New CAA powers must protect operators as well as consumers – Aito
Aito calls on more power for the CAA to curb behaviour by airlines that has repercussions for operators as well as consumers
Derek Moore: Aito gathers to remember 'the man who made the almost impossible, possible'
Tributes were paid to the late Explore co-founder and former Aito chair during the association’s AGM in London this week
Customers confident finances will be unaffected in 2023, Aito reports
The majority of customers are also prepared to pay more for a better holiday experience, Aito executive director Martyn Sumners reported
Aito to host 2023 conference in Thessaloniki
Annual get-together to be held in Greece’s second city
Aito members gain point-of-sale access to verified carbon offsets
Fenix Carbon has created an exclusive portfolio of offsets for Aito’s 120 members, and provide training, webinars and consultation to assist with adoption
Aito blasts govt for failing to acknowledge travel's economic contribution
’Our survival, despite government’s total in action, is amazing,’ says Aito director Noel Josephides
Will travel ever find its forever home?
Advantage Travel Partnership and Aito call on prime minister to use reshuffle to bring outbound travel under the sole control of the Department for Transport
Advantage and Aito 'proactively engage' Treasury to discuss outbound sector
’It is critical that the government recognises the unique difficulties still being faced by the UK outbound travel sector in the wake of the pandemic,’ said Advantage chief executive Julia Lo Bue-Said
Derek Moore: Ex-tour leader pays tribute to Explore co-founder
Steven McHardy, who worked as an Explore tour leader under Moore’s leadership in 1987, tells TTG of his ’daunting’ first encounter with the former Aito chair
Derek Moore: Aito remembers late chair as 'legend in his own time'
Members have paid tribute to Moore who passed away on Monday aged 77