Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
ABTA - The Travel Association |
| Acronym: |
ABTA
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| Legal status: |
Limited Company
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| Website address: |
http://www.abta.com
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Mark TANZER
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| Position: |
Chief Executive |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Luke Pollard
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| Position: |
Head of Public Affairs |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
30 Park Street
London se19eq
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 02031170500 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
ABTA represents over 1,200 UK travel companies in the United Kingdom. Our Members range from small, specialist tour operators and independent travel agencies through to publicly-listed companies and household names. Our key focus is ensuring that our Members’ voice is heard in Westminster and in Brussels and that our Members are able to continue to operate in a successful and sustainable manner.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
4
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Complementary information:
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We have a four person team actively working on Public Affairs issues in Europe, with a number of other staff members working on European issues periodically
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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ABTA hires an agency, APCO Worldwide, which helps to coordinate our policy work in Brussels. In addition, we have an in-house Public Affairs team which steers our policy activities, goals and aims.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Consumer Affairs
- Enterprise
- Environment
- Food Safety
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Public Health
- Taxation
- Transport
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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ABTA is a Member of ECTAA, the European Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Associations
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
07/2011
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06/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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150000
€ - 200000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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61,743 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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ABTA's Travelife is part of the INTOUR project which is part financed through the EU's Eco-Innovation Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP). In the last financial year we received £ as part of this project (Travelife is not the project lead). The figure for this is included in the grant section above, this figure is an approximate based on the exchange rate, the figure in pounds was £51,063
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