ABTA creates new senior role
ABTA has appointed John de Vial in the newly-created role of head of financial protection.
He will leave his current positions as ABTA’s acting head of finance and Shearings Group’s director of external affairs.
He also serves as an ABTA Board member and will step down at the ABTA AGM in May, takeing up his new role on a full-time basis on 19 May.
ABTA said the new role reflects a sharper focus on financial protection as an issue of great significance for ABTA members.
ABTA chief executive Mark Tanzer said: “John has a unique and invaluable combination of 30 years of ABTA and industry knowledge, Member and ABTA Board experience.
“His extensive experience in financial protection and claims management procedures from previous roles will be of enormous value for ABTA with our ongoing work around financial protection. John’s experience and skills will continue to be a huge asset to ABTA.”
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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