THE Truly Independent Professional Travel Organisation has elected Gold Medal’s Gillian Downer as its new deputy chairman. Downer will work in partnership with John Harding of Travelscene, who has been re-elected chairman of the TIPTO marketing consortium. Downer has a brief to support Harding and the organisation’s administrative team to steer the future development of TIPTO following its creation last September. TIPTO recently strengthened its role by attracting high profile member Fred Olsen Cruises. With a wide ranging marketing programme planned, it hopes to expand its activities in educating travel agents about TIPTO members’ products. Over the past year TIPTO has attracted 2,500 independent agents to a series of roadshows and trained 650 agents at seminars.
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