Advantage bosses will tell members at next weekend’s conference they are confident the consortium can go it alone without the support of the Triton Travel Group.
The consortium is due to leave the super-consortium Triton in three weeks’ time but has retained a commercial relationship for members to sell Triton products. Advantage chief executive John McEwan is no longer chairman.
At Advantage’s first joint leisure and business conference, McEwan is due to talk about Advantage’s future.
Sales and marketing director Colin O’Neill said: “We will talk about Triton; delegates and members will be keen to hear where Advantage is going from here. We are obviously confident that standing alone we can pursue our own destiny.
“Crucially what makes us different is that our future is still in the hands of members because we have got a board of directors and it’s one member one vote.”
So far just over 500 delegates have registered for the conference on September 26-28 in Sitges, Spain, which will also look at the impact of the XL Leisure Group collapse and how members can maintain consumer confidence.
The conference is split into main sessions, break out sessions and speed-dating. Results of a state of the nation survey, compiled in conjunction with Travel Weekly, will be revealed at the event.
Other sessions include a look at how different members are developing their businesses, with videoed interviews with individual agents.