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Cruise Lines International Association Launches Safety Review in Wake of Concordia Accident
travel-industry.uptake.com | Jan 27, 2012
The Cruise Lines International Association will undertake a cruise industry operational safety review aimed at assessing the critical human factors and operational aspects of maritime safety.

a week in politics is a lifetime
www.travelweekly.co.uk | Jun 11, 2009
So we have had local elections, Euro elections, ABTA elections and now soon to be ITT elections - a week in politics is a lifetime! However we shouldn’t forget at least we have a democratic right which our forefathers fought for to give us

CLIA confirms bookings downturn (Cruise Lines)
blogs.travelweekly.co.uk | Oct 30, 2008
The Seattle Times concludes the cruise sector is facing rougher seas after a Cruise Lines International Association report showed the number of North Americans cruising last year grew by just 1%. The CLIA says 12.6 million people took cruises worldwide last year, 4.7%...

Online representative body needed, ABTA toothless
blog.travolution.co.uk
Interesting chat with Keith Betton (ex ABTA PR supremo) for the first episode of the ITT special Purple Pods last night.A man known for not mincing his words, Betton said

Travel Weekly Blog: Federation of tour Operators talks ABTA merger to Travel Weekly
travelweekly.co.uk
Andy Cooper, director general of the Federation of Tour operators, came into tto TW Towers today to talk ABTA merger. We managed to get a video clip of Andy talking

+++ ABTA and FTO to merge - finally +++
blog.travolution.co.uk
ABTA and the Federation of Tour Operators are to unite (at last) from July 1.This is big news for the UK travel industry, which has looked towards its traditional representative

The final word on Ryanair? Over to you ABTA...
blog.travolution.co.uk
This from the Office of Fair Trading this evening:The OFT is aware that Ryanair has now changed its website to display prices on the first page of its booking process

Travolution@ABTA 2006
blog.travolution.co.uk
Travolution is off again, this time to the Costa del Sol for the Association of British Travel Agents annual convention in Marbella.Our time there will actually be quite limited -

An afternoon at ABTA Towers
blog.travolution.co.uk
Another coalface day – this time at the Association of British Travel Agents in London, where 60-odd independents and small to medium sized tour operators gathered to learn a bit

The ABTA convention- a point of reference for the online market?
blog.travolution.co.uk
Travolution approached the ABTA convention in Marrakech with interest-ABTA was under pressure this year to revamp the format and make it a better event, and that was from its traditional