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TC 2010: Industry hopes for Atol announcement in November

ABTA Travel Convention logoThe industry awaits a government statement on Atol reform which it is hoped will be issued by mid-November.


This will establish the principles of a reformed scheme following a Department for Transport consultation under the previous government.


Aviation minister Theresa Villiers has accepted a move to ‘flight-plus’ – inclusion of any purchase of a return flight plus one or more added overseas-holiday elements – as the basis of a scheme that would extend protection to dynamically-packaged trips.


However, she has still to resolve what to do on two key issues – flight-only sales through third parties and ‘click-through’ sales, when a client or agent books a flight online and subsequently books a room or car hire through a link to a related site.


On flight only, Villiers will decide whether to include or exclude all sales through third parties.


On click-through sales, she is likely to make a basic statement of principle and leave the details to be thrashed out.


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