Sponsors get together for launch of agent awards

THE SPONSORS of the 1999 Agent Achievement Awards get together to launch the event. Representing the sponsors, are from left, Tom Knopek, Avis; Penny Akam, Travel Weekly, Gillian Downer, Stena Line; Natalie Williams, Disneyland Paris; and Dan Brewin, British Airways. Nominations are currently being invited from agents and principals. For a nomination form, contact the organisers, Kingley Event Management, on 0171-631 3879. The third annual Agent Achievement Awards will be presented to the UK's leading leisure and business travel agents at a glittering industry dinner to be held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, on April 28.