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 Bonjour
ARTA Canada
by
Muguette Goufrani, Associate Editor
Africa Travel Magazine and Air Highways
We are pleased
to receive the good news regarding ARTA Canada. Our
editorial and marketing team came to know about
ARTA early in our publishing career. Here is a
comment from our Editor, Jerry W. Bird. “The
late Fred Fuller of Toledo, Ohio personified ARTA,
being its biggest booster and a solid supporter of
its alliance with the Africa Travel Association.
Getting to know Fred as a friend at ATA Congresses
in Africa, and at the American Travel Market in
Orlando, Florida, I developed a fondness for ARTA's
sound objectives. Just prior to his passing, we
agreed to make ARTA a prime distributor of Africa
Travel Magazine. I had the opportunity of sharing
the podium with several ARTA leaders.”. As
Vancouver residents, we are delighted to see this
fine organization ready, willing and equipped to
make its mark in Canada.
Muguette has lived and worked in various African
countries in addition to the USA and Canada. She
resides in Vancouver, BC. Her father was the first
major tour operator in Casablanca,
Morocco.
ASSOCIATION
OF RETAIL TRAVEL AGENTS ANNOUNCES ITS LAUNCH IN
CANADA
 Toronto,
Ont: The Association of Retail Travel Agents -
Canada (ARTA Canada) announced its launch with
Bruce Bishins as President and CEO. ARTA Canada is
a nonprofit travel agency association federally
incorporated in Canada. It is the strategic partner
of USA-based ARTA and will follow in the footsteps
of that well respected 45-year-old association.
ARTA Canada's Board of Directors includes Mark
Greenwood, Travel Masters, Vancouver; Gordon
Miller, Uniglobe Premier Travel Planners, Ottawa;
David Miller, Imperial Travel American Express,
Montréal; and Simon Parry, Helen Thompson
Travel, Toronto. Bruce Bishins, CTC is ARTA
Canada's President and Chief Executive
Officer.
Free
ARTA Membership for Travel Agencies
In honour of the
launch of ARTA Canada, free membership is offered
to any travel agency which is currently a member of
AQCV, ACTA, CCTA, CSTAR (former members), or The
Travel Alliance for the duration of their other
association membership up to one year.
Agencies and individual travel counsellors will
experience the benefits of ARTA Canada at no charge
while keeping their existing memberships intact. If
your travel agency is not a member of an existing
travel agency association in Canada, you may join
ARTA Canada at no charge for six months. This offer
is extended until October 31, 2008. Travel students
and travel training schools may join ARTA Canada as
associate members. For full information, contact
http://ww.artacanada.ca
More to come
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