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Book convention now before price goes up
Agents and operators wishing to attend this year’s ABTA Travel Convention are being urged to book before July 19.
After that date, the price will rise by £60 and will go up again on August 31.
The Travel Convention is being held between 18-20 October in Malta.
This year’s business session theme is ‘Drivers of Change’.
Speakers include Josh Spear – from New York digital strategy firm Undercurrent, who will outline new ways for companies to harness the digital world.
Leo Johnson, brother of Boris, whose company Sustainable Finance was bought out by PwC in 2009, will make sense of sustainability.
Register now on www.thetravelconvention.com.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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