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The March ATOL renewal process is now firmly underway.
News & insights
Welcome to our news and insights hub where we regularly share views and updates on a range of travel industry regulation, finance and strategy topics. We hope you find it useful, and if you’d like to discuss any of the insights or issues we raise, please get in touch.
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The new year is a time to look to the forwards. At least it should be. Sadly, as we return to our desks after the Christmas break, the three largest issues that will shape the immediate future look achingly familiar.
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Caribtours, the luxury Caribbean specialist tour operator, has been acquired by its Managing Director, Paul Cleary.
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If Only Holidays, the multi-award-winning, trade-only luxury holiday brand has today been acquired by The Portman Travel Group where it joins luxury tour operator Elegant Resorts as well as leading business travel agent, Clarity Travel Management.
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ABTA Travel Matters 2019 - TTC Sponsors Video
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At the 2019 Barclays Travel Forum, TTC Director Martin Alcock joined Paul Carter, CEO of Hotelplan and Petar Cetnik, Senior Risk Manager at Barclaycard to discuss how the travel industry was coping with the Brexit delay.
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TTC Director Martin Alcock presents a session looking at economic and geopolitical trends and the impact on consumer confidence and the travel marketplace.
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We're looking forward to taking part in this year's Barclays Travel Forum on 22 May 2019 at One Great George Street in Westminster.
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What are the key issues that are expected to drive M&A activity this year? Hear finance experts discuss trends in the travel industry – understand the current deal environment and outlook for the M&A market.
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Read TTC Director Martin Alcock's latest post for TTG Media.
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Right now though, the UK travel industry is dealing with a different sort of Google headache, this time related to the increasing cost of Google Ads.
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A sign of the tough market conditions is the re-emergence of aggressive low deposit schemes.
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TTC's Martin Alcock, was on stage at the 2019 ABTA Finance Conference, discussing some of the current issues facing the outbound travel sector, and highlighting 3 current trends.
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Many travel companies (including some large ones who really should know better!) will happily copy their T&Cs from an unmodified, off the shelf template or from a competitor in order to save a few quid in legal fees.
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If you were trying to sell a travel business twenty years ago, you only needed to make two phone calls.