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GTMC welcomes new member
The Guild of Travel Management Companies has welcomed Altour International as its latest member.
Established in the US in 1991, Altour came to the UK in 1999 and is based in London’s Queen Victoria Street near Blackfriars.
It employs around 40 people in the UK, some of them employees and others independent contractors running their own businesses within the Altour organisation.
The UK operation is headed up by general manager Nigel Parkinson, who previously worked for Carlson Wagonlit and Hogg Robinson.
Altour specialises in travel management in the entertainment sector, music tours, film shoots, general media, concierge, medical repatriation as well as corporate finance clients.
by Bev Fearis
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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