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Dear Colleagues,
Let me begin by thanking my OBs, MC, Regional / Chapter Chairmen /Secretaries and Treasurers and all you members for participating in our Association’s EGM held in Mumbai on the 15th Of June, 2010.
I am happy to inform all those who couldn’t make it to the EGM that the meeting was held in a civil, transparent and fair manner with equal rights to all members there to present their opinions, based on sound reasoning and on human values. There was freedom of belief and thought, open dialogue, participation, cooperation and the EGM was conducted successfully. The pro-active session held prior to the EGM for the office bearers of our Regions/ Chapter to meet one other and interact was also well appreciated, as it gave them an opportunity to aquaint themselves with similar TAAI officials from other cities and actually meet them in person.
The other important news is the DGCA’s response to the Competition Commissioner of India at whose office TAAI had lodged a plaint against the 14 airlines still not paying commission to travel agents in spite of theDGCA’s order dated 5th March, asking them to pay commission to agents. The DGCA’s response which was to the advantage of our agent members had been emailed to all of you. Should any of not yet received this mail then please do contact our Secretariat and it shall be mailed to you once more. I am in dialogue with the DGCA yet again to take this further and as soon as there is some development in this direction the same will be intimated to you immediately. I must thank each and every one of you for your undying support then and now and I think very soon, we shall achieve what we started to achieve in the first place since last year. Everything in life has a closure and with the DGCA firmly believing in commission to travel agents we should have ours soon on this matter.
Next, I would like to remind you that TAAI’s own travel & tourism Exhibition - ITTE 2010, is coming up from 6th-7th August, at the World Trade Center, Cuffe Parade, and Mumbai. To which the response is very good and we intend to bring in a good number of hosted buyers, both domestic and international.
Read the special news about our forth-coming TAAI Travel Awards, our2nd year of this prestigious event in rewarding all the captains of our industry for their hard work, initiative and commitment. The gala event Will held in Mumbai along with ITTE.
Last and definitely NOT the least, I am very happy to inform you that the Indian Travel Congress, 59th Annual Convention & Exhibition of your Association will be held in Phuket, Thailand, from 24th-26th September. My convention Committee and I had done a reccee of this beautiful destination and found it ideal for holding a congress overseas. A TAAI convention has never been held so far in South East Asia and now the time has come for us to take our prestigious 3 day convention to these shores. We are sure all of you will participate in large numbers to make it one of the best. We are shortly bringing out our attractive brochure on this convention so kindly awaits this. But be sure to mark the dates in your calendar in order not to miss out this great opportunity to net work and meet your counterparts from all over our country and the world.
Happy Reading!
Rajji Rai
President
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