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Bird flu to be discussed at ABTA Travel Convention
ABTA is to run a session on how travel businesses can prepare for a bird flu pandemic at its convention next month.
A ‘Master class’ session will be held on November 27 at the ABTA Travel Convention in Marrakech between 11:25-12:10.
Panellists Keith Betton from ABTA, Andy Cooper from the Federation of Tour Operators, Paul Sizeland, from the Foreign Office, Debbie Hindle from Travel PR company BGB and David Perl from Docleaf will go through the issues of what and where bird flu is; what the likely scenarios will be if the bird virus became a human virus; how government will respond and what travel companies should be doing now.
ABTA said: “Although the travel industry has become well experienced in dealing with major catastrophes, which have put off holidaymakers from travelling, UK travel companies have so far not faced the possibility of how they would cope if large numbers of their own staff became ill.”
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