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Overview
Lobbying Costs
350,000€
Financial year: Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
ABTA - The Travel Association (ABTA)
EU Transparency Register
71031367582-11 First registered on 04 Jan 2012
Goals / Remit
ABTA represents around 1,100 UK travel companies in 4,500 locations across the United Kingdom. Our Members range from small, specialist tour operators and independent travel agencies specialising in business travel, through to publicly listed companies and household names. Our key focus is ensuring that our Members’ voice is heard in Westminster and in Brussels and that our Members are able to continue to operate in a successful and sustainable manner.
Main EU files targeted
- Package Travel Directive
- Passenger Rights (all modes)
- Data Protection
- PNR
- VAT/TOMs
- Tourism Accommodation Safety
- Gastric Illness
- Exiting the EU
ABTA also takes an active interest in a number of other Internal Market, Transport and tax issues.Address
Head Office
30 Park Street
London SE1 9EQ
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Jan 2025
Name Start date End Date Mr Mark Tanzer 08 Jan 2020 04 Jul 2020 Mr Luke Petherbridge 08 Jan 2020 04 Jul 2020 Mr Tim Spalding 08 Jan 2020 04 Jul 2020 Ms Emma Wade 08 Jan 2020 04 Jul 2020 Mr Mark Tanzer 09 Feb 2018 08 Feb 2019 Mr Luke Petherbridge 09 Feb 2018 08 Feb 2019 Mr Alan Wardle 09 Feb 2018 08 Feb 2019 Mr Luke Petherbridge 22 Aug 2016 18 Aug 2017 Mr Mark Tanzer 30 Mar 2016 23 Mar 2017 Mr Stephen D'Alfonso 30 Mar 2016 23 Aug 2016 Mr Mark Tanzer 05 May 2015 30 Mar 2016 Mr Stephen D'Alfonso 05 May 2015 30 Mar 2016 Mr Stephen D'Alfonso 16 Apr 2014 15 Apr 2015 Mr Mark Tanzer 15 Apr 2014 12 Apr 2015 Complementary Information
We have a four person team actively working on Public Affairs issues in Europe, with a number of other staff members working on European issues periodically. The team is supported by a Personal Assistant, who is shared with another department.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Luke Petherbridge (Head of Public Affairs)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Mark TANZER (Chief Executive)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
ABTA is a Member of ECTAA, the European Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Associations
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
350,000€
Other financial info
We hire the support of public affairs agencies, as appropriate.
Current support in EU affairs (as of January 2019):
Hume Brophy -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
We have an in-house Public Affairs team which steers our policy activities, goals and aims. We also contract external public affairs support, as required by workloads.
Meetings
Meetings
4 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 09 Nov 2017 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with CEO, Mr Tanzer Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Joshua Salsby (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Aviation travel and tourism Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Joshua Salsby (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 08 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Aviation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Joshua Salsby (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 03 Feb 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Travel package Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet member)