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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTOF
The Association of British Tour Operators to France is a UK organization of specialist operators formed in 1992, with its website referenced in the entry
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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTOC
The Association of British Travel Agents Tour Operators Certificate is described as a two-level syllabus covering the underpinning knowledge expected of a competent tour operator staff member after one year (Level 1) or two years (Level 2). The awarding body is the City and Guilds of London Institute, and the entry provides a website reference for further information on City and Guilds qualifications KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTEL 210
ABTEL 210 was the name of ABTA’s Prestel database, managed by Datasolve, and the service ended in 1984. KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTECH
ABTECH was the name previously used for ABTA’s Technology Information Service, which provided members with impartial advice. The entry states that the service continued but stopped using the ABTECH name in 1999, becoming a commercial organization. KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTB
This stands for the Association of Bank Travel Bureaux in the United States. KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTACHECK
ABTACHECK is a service that allows ABTA members to check the validity of credit cards—especially where the cardholder is not present—and it is stated to identify 90% of attempted fraudulent transactions. KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTAC
The ABTA Travel Agents Certificate (ABTAC) is a national examination offered at two levels, covering much of the underpinning knowledge expected of a travel clerk working in a leisure-based UK travel agency after one year’s experience (Level 1) or two years’ experience (Level 2). The entry specifies that ABTAC excludes scheduled air reservations, fares, and ticketing; these are covered instead through QCF air units (Qualifications Credit Framework) at two levels. The syllabus is stated to be carefully aligned with relevant leisure travel QCF units. The entry also notes a separate two-level examination series for business travel, run by the Guild of Business Travel Agents (GBTA) in conjunction with the City and Guilds of London Institute (C&GLI). The entry includes website references for City and Guilds and for ABTA-recommended Training for Travel (TFT) as well as TTC Training KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTA-TTC Training
This is a UK travel training organization that was formerly an ABTA subsidiary and was sold to NTP Group in 2002. The entry notes that ABTA currently promotes Training for Travel (TFT) and provides website references for Training for Travel and TTC Training, noting that these outline TTC training courses and facilities KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTA/Travel Foundation
This refers to ABTA’s partner sustainable tourism site, with the entry referencing Make Travel Greener and identifying it as The Travel Foundation’s website KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: ABTA Travel Agents’ Fund
Under ABTA rules, agent members may be required to contribute up to half of their annual subscription in any one year into this Fund. Its primary purpose is to indemnify, wholly or partly, members of the travelling public against losses caused by the default or financial failure of any travel agent member. The entry also states the fund may, at the discretion of a committee of Travel Agents’ Council, be used to indemnify tour operators that have sustained losses. |
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