Having read the recent article by ABTA’s Chief Executive Mark Tanzer in the travel press, in which he discusses his views on financial protection within the industry, I strongly feel his plea for more wide-ranging financial protection should be seen as a cynical ploy to protect ABTA’s tour operator members and does little to advance [...]

Independent travel company Travel Counsellors has offered help, advice and alternative travel arrangements to those holidaymakers affected by the news that yet another tour operator has gone bust this summer. The collapse of London-based travel company Flight Options Limited, trading principally as Kiss Flights, which specialised in holidays to the Mediterranean, has left approximately 13,000 [...]