UFTAA President meets ASTINDO Board in Jakarta

JAKARTA - The President of UFTAA, Joe Borg Olivier recently paid a visit to its member association ASTINDO’s new offices in the centre of Jakarta (Indonesia). He had an interesting and fruitful meeting with ASTINDO’s Board during which a number of items that relate to the travel trade in general and to the Indonesian travel agents were raised and discussed.
Mrs Elly Hutabarat, President of ASTINDO welcomed Mr Borg Olivier and expressed her content that ASTINDO was welcoming an UFTAA President for the first time. She highlighted some of the problems that her members were encountering and hoped that with UFTAA’s assistance a number of them would be solved.
In his reply the UFTAA President stated that UFTAA was in constant touch with IATA on a number of issues and that IATA has recognized that problems in various countries do exist and that discussions are held on an ongoing basis. He reiterated that UFTAA will keep on doing the utmost to assist, advice, write letters, issue press releases and meet the authorities and/or suppliers on behalf of its members to try and find solutions that its members need. He informed ASTINDO that IATA has invited UFTAA to attend an Airline Agents Forum which is being held in Washington on 8th July.
He also congratulated the other Travel Agents Association, ASITA Jakarta for hosting around one hundred street children who are homeless, beggars or buskers to a fun day which he termed as a “nobel cause”, and hoped that other associations around the world would take up this example. ASTINDO’s members together with ASITA Jakarta chapter’s member have donated funds for this activity.
He finally augured that ASTINDO will be the hallmark for the Indonesian Travel Trade.
The President of UFTAA on the occasion presented Mrs Hutabarat with a memento for her longtime contribution to the travel trade.

Sourced: TravelDailyNews