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September 2020
UK GOVERNMENT HAS ‘SHATTERED’ BRITONS’ CONFIDENCE IN TRAVEL, SAYS ABTA CHIEF
Confidence in travelling abroad has been “shattered” by government policies, the leading travel trade association has said.
Abta, representing travel agents and tour operators, is accusing ministers of creating “a straitjacket to travel”.
The government applies a “double lock” to the vast majority of holiday destinations. Prospective visitors to France, Spain, Portugal and many other countries face travelling without insurance because the Foreign Office warns they are “unacceptably high risk,” and must self-isolate on their return home for 14 days.
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Agiito
Formerly Capita Travel and Events / NYS, we’re Agiito and we connect people.
We draw on years of experience in the UK travel market to offer; accommodation, rail, ground transportation, meetings management, venue sourcing and event logistics services like no other.
ALTOUR
With sales of $2.8 billion in 2017, ALTOUR is one of the largest travel management companies in the United States and one of the largest travel management companies globally.
Amex GBT
Positioned at the intersection of commerce and travel, American Express Global Business Travel offers its customers a comprehensive network, service dependability, and deep insight to help move people and businesses forward.
ATPI
The ATPI Group is one of the world's leading and long established global travel management and events businesses. With a footprint of wholly owned offices and network partners in over 100 locations around the world.
BCD Travel
We partner with our clients to drive savings, simplify the complexities of business travel and keep travellers safe and productive. We make this happen in 109 countries with almost 13,800 creative, committed and experienced people.
Blue Cube
Blue Cube is a fiercely independent travel company, established in 2003, the 3 owner / directors are involved in every aspect of the operation on a daily basis and together with the loyal staff it employs, has created a niche, service oriented and cost effective business.
Clyde Travel
Business travel is hardly ever only about booking a flight ticket. In a world of ever increasing costs but also a renewed commitment towards the wellbeing of employees, buying business travel is a more complex affair that touches a wide array of business functions in each organisation.
Clarity
With nearly 60 years of experience, Clarity combine business travel service excellence with award winning booking, mobile, tracking and intelligence technology through the Go2 product suite.
Corporate Travel Management
Our reach is global, but our people are local. This means we can offer you worldwide solutions created and delivered on your doorstep; solutions that are tailored to meet the precise travel needs of your company, country and culture.
CT Business Travel
Established in 1988, for more than 32 years, CT Travel Group has been leading the way in business, leisure and group travel. CT Business Travel is an integral part of this award-winning and independently owned group, and provides a high-touch and personable global business travel management solution to each and every one of its clients.
CWT
CWT is a business-to-business-for-employees travel management platform on which companies and governments rely to keep their people connected.
Diversity Travel
We are an award-winning specialist Travel Management Company providing a unique and comprehensive travel service to charity, academic and not-for-profit organisations globally.
EFR Travel
The EFR Travel group prides itself on service and providing the client with the Ultimate TMC Experience. From start to finish on a booking the journey becomes seamless with our clients' needs being well catered for.
Egencia
Egencia is a leading full-service travel management company delivering innovative business travel technology and expert local service to clients in more than 65 countries around the world.
Eton Travel
Eton Travel offers a different approach for those SME sized corporate clients requiring a pan-European focused travel procurement service.
Flight Centre Travel Group
Flight Centre Travel Group offers a network of over 40 offices and implant/outplant locations in the UK, with the head office located in New Malden, Surrey.
Focus Travel Partnership
Focus Travel Partnership is the leading business travel consortium for the independent TMC (Travel Management Company) sector.
Good Travel Management
Here at Good Travel Management we have been providing corporate travel services for over 120 years and take the stress associated with booking, managing and undertaking business travel so our customers can focus on the more important things.
Gray Dawes Group
Gray Dawes Group was established as a travel agency back in 1927 and our founding goals of providing a quality, highly efficient and cost-effective range of travel services remain fundamental today.
Inntel
For over 30 years we've been selecting venues, managing events, sourcing travel and accommodation, exceeding the expectations of hundreds of companies along the way.
Key Travel
Our commitment to innovation has helped our clients overcome the complexities of their unique travel requirements for over 38 years.
Munros Travel Group
Munro's Travel Group Agency established in 1903. One of Scotland's leading Business Travel Agencies. We also operate a Groups and Conference Division and Leisure Division giving our clients the complete travel package.
Omega World Travel
Omega World Travel helps organisations of all sizes achieve their goals for cost management, cost reduction, process reengineering, corporate responsibility, and customer satisfaction.
Norad Travel Management
Thoroughly expert organisation dedicated to fulfilling its clients Travel Management and Meetings & Events requirements to exceptional standards.
Reed and Mackay
Reed & Mackay combines the scale of international player with the agility to treat every clients as though they are the only one in our world.
TAG
Established in 1988, TAG (formerly known as The Appointment Group) has grown to become one of the world's leading travel and event management companies.
Travel Counsellors
Travel Counsellors is an independent, global network of friendly and professional travel experts with over 20 years of experience arranging concierge-style business travel for clients around the world.
Travel Leaders UK
Travel Leaders UK provides a business travel management and a Concierge Style Leisure service with teams of specialists located across the UK as well as within our central London HQ.
Ventur
Travel management has become a sea of sameness, filled with off-the-shelf solutions and promises to save you time and money.
But we’re different. When you partner with us, you’re guaranteed exceptional service, powerful insight and enhanced technology. Making your business, sport and group travel programmes more seamless is just what we do.
Looking for a new way to travel? Welcome to Ventur.
Wexas Travel Management
Wexas Travel Management is a business travel agency combining high levels of service with real value for money. Our goal is to ensure that your company saves both time and money, and that your travellers are well looked after.
Wings Travel Management
Wings Travel Management specialises in Oil and Gas, Marine and Corporate travel. With wholly owned regional hubs in UK/Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, we are experts in helping our clients navigate challenging business travel.
Industry Partners
Accor Hotels
We are far more than a worldwide leader.
We are 280,000 women and men placing people at the heart of what we do, and nurturing real passion for service and achievement beyond limits.
AirPlus International
AirPlus is a multi-award winning business travel payment specialist. When it comes to the payment and evaluation of business travel costs, we are the experts.
Amadeus
We build the critical solutions that help airlines and airports, hotels and railways, search engines, travel agencies, tour operators and other travel players to run their operations and improve the travel experience, billions of times a year, all over the world.
American Airlines
American Airlines Group operate an average of nearly 6,700 flights per day to 339 destinations in 54 countries from its hubs in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, D.C.
ANA
All Nippon Airways is the largest airline in Japan and one of eleven airlines to have been awarded the 5-star rating from Skytrax. ANA was awarded 'Business Airline of the Year ' and 'Best CSR Programme' at Business Travel Awards 2018.
Avis Budget Group
Avis Budget Group is a leading global provider of mobility solutions, operating three of the most recognized brands in the industry through Avis, Budget and Zipcar, the world's leading car-sharing network.
Avanti West Coast
Avanti West Coast run trains to major towns and cities across the UK, serving 49 stations and connecting three countries on the West Coast Main Line.
BDO
BDO’s leisure M&A team is one of the most active M&A advisers in the UK. The team has extensive transaction experience in travel, pubs, QSR, restaurants and bars, gyms and family leisure. Our clients range from owner-managed entrepreneurial businesses through to listed international corporates. In recent years our team has advised on several landmark deals within the industry.
Barclaycard
Since we opened our doors for business, much has changed. The world we live in has constantly evolved, fuelled by the possibilities of the digital age. And we at Barclaycard have evolved with it.
Bournemouth University
We are one of the top universities in the world for the study of tourism and hospitality, ranked 3rd in the UK for hospitality, event management and tourism in the Guardian League Table 2019.
Black Box
Black Box Partnerships are the business travel, meetings and events experts.
We help TMCs to drive increased profitability.
We enable business travel to Think Big, Act Smart and Move Fast.
British Airways
British Airways is one of the world's most prestigious and trusted airlines, offering excellent service, a wide range of products and an extensive route network to cater for the needs of our customers around the world.
CAP Worldwide Serviced Apartments
We are also experts in handling groups, projects and VIPs and any bookings over 7 nights.
Our CAP leadership team and our dedicated Reservations Consultants work alongside you to deliver the most comprehensive extended stay programme, services and solutions for you and your clients.
Carey International
With an exclusive global network spanning more than 1000 cities worldwide, Carey offers unrivaled safety, consistent service standards, and innovative travel technology for both travelers and arrangers.
CMAC
Incorporated in 2007, CMAC has rapidly grown to become the industry leader in managed transport and accommodation solutions for both planned and demand responsive travel requirements.
CMAC connects its world-leading portfolio of clients to an international supply of approved taxi, coach and HOTAC suppliers through purpose-built technology, providing a seamless and reliable solution for every scenario.
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines serves more than 180 million customers each year. In 2018, Delta was named to Fortune's top 50 Most Admired Companies in addition to being named the most admired airline for the seventh time in eight years.
DiamondAir International
DiamondAir International is the world's leading provider of luxury Meet & Assist services, with over 30 years' experience in the industry. Our expertise and exponential growth has allowed us to be a pioneer in service development and a leading exemplary operation on the ground.
easyJet
At easyJet we are all about making travel easy and affordable. That means we can help you to get more value from your travel spend. We fly to more primary airports delivering business travellers to their meetings quickly, along with having flexible products and a comfortable and efficient travel experience.
HotelHub
HotelHub is the leading hotel technology booking solution for TMCs and their corporate customers. Formed in 2008, our mission is to provide simple, secure, seamless hotel technology that delivers unparalleled efficiencies, choice and automation of corporate hotel bookings.
HotelHub uniquely consolidates GDS and non-GDS content (over 2M hotels worldwide) within a single intuitive web-based agency tool for TMCs and a self-booking tool for business travellers and arrangers. It includes an application programming interface (API) integrated with the business travel industry’s principle OBTs.
HotelREZ
HotelREZ is a collection of hundreds of independent and unique hotels in over 30 countries worldwide, all bookable under the HO chain code on the GDS.
Evolvi Rail Systems
Evolvi Rail Systems is the UK market leader in the development and delivery of online rail booking and fulfilment functionality, along with associated policy, compliance and reporting options, to travel management companies and online booking tools.
Great Western Rail
GWR run high-speed, commuter, regional and branch line trains throughout London, South Wales, the West of England and Devon and Cornwall. All our trains offer free WiFi and most now have at-seat charging too.
InterContinental Hotels Group
At IHG, we're committed to delivering True Hospitality for everyone. We believe in making you feel welcome and valued, wherever you are in the world.
International Rail
International Rail is one of the leading agents and distributors of international rail tickets and passes. With more rail contracts globally than anyone else, we offer access to the very best fares and availability across most of the globe.
Japan Airlines
Recognised as one of the most punctual major international airlines in the world, and certified as a 5-Star Skytrax airline, JAL is committed to providing customers with the highest levels of flight safety and quality in every aspect of its service.
JetBlue
JetBlue is the sixth largest airline in the United States, serving more than 100 destinations throughout the Americas. The carrier - which first took to the skies in 2000 - employs 20,000 crewmembers, flies more than 270 aircraft and operates six focus cities in New York, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Los Angeles and San Juan.
LNER
LNER services run between London Kings Cross and York, Leeds, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and many more destinations. We offer free Wi-Fi to all passengers regardless of their booking channel.
Mastercard
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments industry. Our global payments processing network connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories.
Melia Hotels International
Founded in 1956 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Meliá Hotels International is one of the largest hotel companies in the world and the largest hotel chain in Spain in both resort and city hotels.
Native
Established in 1997, we're an award winning provider of both short and long term apartments, operating across the UK. The properties we manage form a valuable and vibrant part of the local neighbourhood.
Premier Inn
Premier Inn is the UK’s largest hotel chain, with over 800 hotels and more than 80,000 rooms across the UK. We’re renowned for providing comfort and consistency at great value.
Rail Delivery Group
The Rail Delivery Group brings together the companies that run Britain's railway into a single team with one goal - to deliver a better railway for you and your community.
Sabre
Sabre is a software and technology company that powers the global travel and tourism industry. It provides an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions that help airlines, hoteliers and agencies retail, distribute and fulfil travel.
SAP Concur
How your company spends money on travel, expenses, and invoices matters, and not just to the bottom line. Sure, we'll help you save money. But we'll also help improve productivity, both in the office and on the road.
Sirius Executive Search
At Sirius we pride ourselves on being the UK’s only recruitment company, dedicated 100% to the business travel industry. This is our niche and area of expertise. We specialise in all levels of management positions to board level for business travel partners and members of the BTA.
South Western Railway
Over the next 7 years, we'll be investing in our network, our people and the community to deliver high quality, safe and reliable services which meet the needs of customers and the communities we serve.
TrainsPennine Express
TransPennine Express is an intercity rail provider with a vision to Take the North Further. We are proud to be a FirstGroup plc company which provides solutions for an increasingly congested world... keeping people moving and communities prospering.
Travelport
Travelport is a Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $8.3 trillion global travel and tourism industry.
Travlaw
We pride ourselves on being one of the top travel law firms in the UK. We are a large, experienced team of highly professional yet approachable lawyers who are tried and tested specialists in advising the travel industry.
Trees4Travel
Trees are scientifically proven to be the most powerful of all carbon offset solutions & are also tangible & affordable. We calculate emissions (DEFRA & GHG Protocols), provide monthly reporting enabling travellers & businesses alike to easily offset emissions from air, rail, ferry and car as well as hotel stays.
Vibe
If you sell business travel, Vibe makes it easier for you to build travel booking experiences perfect for any corporate customer.
Customisable, flexible and constantly updated, there's no better way to build a solution that fits your audience to a tee.
Virgin Atlantic
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Visa
Visa is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.
WEX Europe
WEX is a leading provider of business to business payment solutions using the MasterCard and Visa network through virtual, physical and digital devices.
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