An Understanding our Business seminar is to be staged by the Scottish Passenger Agents Association this month.
It is part of a new initiative designed to offer advice and support to members during the economic downturn.
The seminar will run prior to the SPAA’s spring networking lunch at the Menzies Glasgow Hotel on April 21.
Understanding Our Business will cover financial protection/ATOL licensing and bonding and travel insurance.
Speakers will include Nick James, formerly of the CAA and now director of the Air Travel Consultancy; and Rock Insurance managing director Anthony Martin and Scottish sales manager Ian Scott.
Topics for discussion will include Dynamic Packaging; what constitutes a pre-packaged arrangement; ATOL licensing; financial bonding, and company failure insurance. Travel insurance sales under the recently introduced Financial Services Authority regime, and its precise implications for travel agents will also come under the microscope.
SPAA travel agent members and associate members are being encouraged to attend and participate.
SPAA political convenor Sandy MacPherson said: “When times are tough, management of a business can be a lonely place – by no means every member company has its own financial advisor, and as a consequence SPAA Council, in addition to offering our fellow members the opportunity to come together and network (most valuable in itself) twice a year, is equally determined to offer timely and appropriate business support, too.”
