ABTA paid tribute this week to its former treasurer George Parker who died at the weekend, aged 66.
Parker, a member of Travel Agents’ Council, collapsed while in the Bahamas.
ABTA president Steven Freudmann praised Parker for his dedicated work for the association over the past 27 years.
“George made a massive contribution to ABTA,” he said. “His dry sense of humour and his wonderful habit of calling a spade a spade will be sorely missed.”
A two-minute silence for Parker was held before last week’s ABTA board meeting.
Parker began his work at ABTA in 1972 as a member of the shipping committee. He was a board member between 1991 and 1998 and twice held the position of treasurer. Parker was managing director of John Hilary Travel between 1969 to 1995 before becoming a director of Serif Travel.