ATPI reports year of growth, new offices and new hires

New strategic partnerships, significant investment in market-leading technology and a series of senior appointments led to growth and global expansion in 2018, reports global travel and events management business, the ATPI Group. In the first quarter of the year ATPI added to its network through strategic partnerships. Direct ATPI Global Travel, a joint organisation with US based Direct Travel was launched in February 2018, adding offices across USA and Canada to the ATPI international network of 100+ offices in 55 countries. The group also joined forces with six new partners and strengthened its on-the-ground local expertise in Israel, Oman, Hungary, Turkey, Argentina and Kenya. Later in 2018 ATPI partnered with Serko, an online travel and expense management business, delivering the launch of Zeno by ATPI. ATPI became the first Travel Management Company (TMC) to bring that technology exclusively to Europe. The business also announced plans to evolve its proprietary fare aggregation system, ATPI Ticket Window, to integrate New Distribution Capability (NDC) content from airlines currently unavailable via GDS (Global Distribution System). And ATPI also bagged the  UK GTMC Innovation Award for its  market-leading ATPI Traveller Tracking System™ (TTS) which gives travel managers access to destination risk information in real-time. TTS also offers an instant email and SMS service which allows communication to be made with a traveller should an incident occur. Senior management appointments across the globe at ATPI have included John Nixon as Global Director of Operations, and Clare Pereira as Global Director of Products and Customer Experience. Further afield three leadership appointments were made across ATPI’s divisions, with Helen van Berkel as Global Head of Events, Judy ‘JP’ Peplinski as Global Head of Energy, and Kathy Larkan as Head of Commercial Operations Australia. Andrew Waller, CEO, the ATPI Group, said: “ATPI strengthened its position in 2018 across each of its specialist divisions – energy, marine, sports and corporate events, and corporate travel, through investment in market-leading technology, new strategic partnerships and senior leadership appointments… 2019 is set to be another strong year for ATPI, with many technology investments coming to life and an ongoing focus on innovation and product developments which will further improve every aspect of the services we provide.” www.atpi.com