Atta is representing its members with two new Board appointments.
Katie Fewkes of Scott Dunn has been appointed to represent UK tour operators, and Julian Edmunds of Tanganyika Flying Co (Tanzania) becomes aviation and East Africa director at The African Travel & Tourism Association.
Katie was previously Africa product manager at Audley before moving to London in 2014 to become product development manager tailormade commercial in the global product team at Scott Dunn.
She said : "I’m delighted to be joining the Atta Board and looking forward to getting involved in promoting tourism to Africa.
"It’s an honour to be representing UK tour operators and working alongside the rest of the Atta Board to ensure we continue to see growth in travel to this beautiful continent."
The new discipline ‘Aviation’ has been created at the Atta Board for the first time with the appointment of Julian Edmunds.
The current Atta Board of Directors for 2015 are Nigel Vere Nicoll, Anita Powell, Ross Kennedy, Tim Henshall, Ingram Casey, Mohanjeet Brar, Ico Inanc, Honour Schram de Jong, Damian Cook, Graham Boynton, Fiona Jeffery OBE, André Laget, Julian Edmunds and Katie Fewkes.
