Freedom gets new ATOL status
The Freedom Travel Group has become the latest company to be approved as an Accredited Body under reforms to the ATOL scheme.
It joins Hays Travel, Travel Counsellors and the Global Travel Group, which have also been approved.
The Civil Aviation Authority said further announcements on additional organisations meeting the requirements to become an Accredited Body will be made in due course.
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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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