New Chair and Vice Chair for ATIA

The ATIA board has elected Christian Hunter as Chair, and Laura Ruffles has been elected Vice Chair alongside Graham Turner, who’s returning as Vice Chair.

Incoming ATIA Chair Christian Hunter stated: “It’s a nice honour and privilege to be elected as ATIA’s Chair and lead such an esteemed Board. I’d wish to acknowledge outgoing Chair, Tom Manwaring, for his excellent management all through some extraordinarily difficult circumstances.”

“Tom’s dedication and imaginative and prescient have left an indelible mark on the ATIA and the broader Journey business. We prolong our deepest gratitude to Tom for his distinctive service and management. His contributions have been invaluable, and his impression will likely be felt for a few years to come back.”

“We’re delighted to have such passionate and skilled business leaders within the type of Brett, Gai, and Rohan be part of the Board. Our new Administrators all love the business and are desperate to share their experience and contribute.”

“Whereas we’re happy with our profitable first 12 months as ATIA, I’m enthusiastic about what our new Board will ship for Members shifting ahead.”

“Our new Administrators convey their experiences from many years working in journey throughout totally different sectors, and every displays the colourful combine of companies that type our Membership base. Whereas we’re happy with our Member retention, we’re hitting the bottom operating, united in our intention to additional assist members by persevering with to raise our engagement and advocacy work.”

ATIA Vice Chair Laura Ruffles stated: “It’s my immense privilege to signify our sturdy and tight-knit Member neighborhood as Vice Chair of such an impactful business physique in ATIA.”

“ATIA Members are a dynamic mixture of extremely proficient, skilled, and modern people and journey companies that energy a vitally essential financial ecosystem for Australia and work laborious each day to supply important {and professional} providers for all Australian travellers.”

“I’m obsessed with inspiring the subsequent technology and igniting curiosity in journey careers. This business has supplied me with some unbelievable alternatives as a working mum, and I’m dedicated to elevating consciousness across the life-changing experiences you possibly can have in journey.”

“My purpose is to proceed making certain all ATIA stakeholders form the work we do in sustaining a unified entrance to greatest serve the wants of our business and membership base. This strategy secures our future by reinforcing ATIA’s place because the trusted business physique that is ready to maintain itself accountable to the best requirements — each for shoppers and our loyal members.”

ATIA Vice Chair Graham Tuner stated: “Working with Christian, Laura, and my fellow ATIA Administrators to form the strategic course of the Board is my first precedence as we proceed to set our Member companies up for fulfillment.”

“My perception has all the time been that working collectively for the nice of the Journey Business advantages everybody — from intermediaries to operators, inbound, outbound, and domestically.”

“I’ll proceed figuring out the place Member companies are going through challenges and dealing along with my business friends to safe the longer term prosperity of the Australian journey sector. Having a united peak business physique in ATIA is essential to ship most advantages for Members, the broader business, and the travelling public by way of selection, high quality of service, and value.”