THE May/June issue of the Institute of Travel and Tourism’s ‘journal’ arrived this week including a flyer detailing a list of forthcoming events and training seminars.
There’s one or two meetings in London; a barbecue in er… London; and numerous interesting events and lectures in some really popular place called London!
Apparently I must be the only Institute member with a business in north of England and therefore the lack of events in my neck of the woods should come as no surprise. Well there’s no Ferrari on the drive, I’ve no country mansion and the bank manager stopped sending me Christmas cards years ago so I must assume that not all 15m holidaymakers who travel each year book through Ashton Travel Centre.
Contrary to popular belief, not all of us here wear flat caps and go whippet racing. I feel confident that any informative events in our locality would be well supported.
If the Institute is to move forward into the millennium, sustain its profile and attract new professional members then it would do well to remember that intelligent life forms do exist north of Watford!Antony Crosshwaite
Director
Ashton Travel Centre
Preston