s m a r t n e w s

Your Pyramids have arrived! Your 2013 ATPI preferred pyramids have arrived and should be sitting on your desks!

Making a change this year we’ve numbered them (check the bottom for your number) and we’ll be doing spot prizes

throughout the year!

This month’s spot prize winners are lucky numbers:

66 371 244 303 399 To claim your £10 Love to Shop voucher send the Supplier Relations team your name, office location and a picture with

you and your pyramid. The person with the best picture will receive an extra £10 Love2Shop voucher too!

supplierrelations@atpi.com

Staff Corner

London Bakes for Life

Last month we had Aberdeen running for charity, this month we have London baking and eating cakes to raise money

for Cancer Research.

Hilton kindly sponsored the event and gave away Afternoon Tea at the Waldorf Astoria and surprised the office by

bringing ATPI branded cakes! The event raised £190 as well as everyone’s waistline measurements!

Competition

Winner’s Section

Supplier News

Staff Offers

Hotels

Website Link - http://www.travelagent.rezidor.com

We are working hard to secure more supplier staff offers this year.

Any the Supplier Relations team hear about will be in the newsletter, but if you have seen any we haven´t advertised, let us know so we can share these great offers!

Rail

Heathrow Express is offering staff rates to ATPI staff. All you´ll need to do is click on the link and log in using the details below. https://trade.heathrowexpress.com/ Username: 13atpi Password: trains13

July 2013

Welcome to the July newsletter and some major news from the Supplier Relations Team to begin with.

The time has finally come and Allan Schoenherr has decided to retire. For those of you who know and have met Allan you will know we are losing a very valuable member of the Supplier Relations Team and a great, positive character who was very popular with our suppliers and within ATPI. I am sure you will join me in wishing Allan well with his retirement plans.

June was another positive month for ATPI with air sales up 8% and hotel sales up 12%. In our incentive with the Air France Group we finished up 11% which was behind our target of 20% growth, but the two day French Air Traffic control strike in the middle of the incentive did not help things. We will work through each team’s figures and announce the winners shortly so good luck.

We have another great incentive with Emirates this month where each day someone could win a £50 Love2Shop voucher plus places on a Familiarisation (Fam) Trip to win.

Plus watch out for IHG Hotels and their annual July incentive.

Emirates and IHG Incentives

Meet the NYSE Team

The UK says Goodbye to the Hotel Solutions team

The hotel solutions team based in Manchester said its final goodbye on the 31st May. The

team went out with a bang with afternoon tea and a few drinks and food in the evening.

‘Thanks to everyone who has worked on the Hotel Solutions team over the years, your hard

work and professionalism has been much appreciated.’ - Hayley Webster, Manchester

Send your guesses to supplierrelations@atpi.com

Hilton Worldwide Industry

Travel Agent Rates

To access agent rates, log on to

www.hilton.com/travelagentoffer

Air

Note the Virgin Atlantic GTMC fares are back and are on the intranet for you to use.

You can find Staff Offers on the intranet under http://extranet.atpi.com/insiteasp/StaffOffers.asp

Or you can use the links below

Premium

http://atpfares.ticketwindow.co.uk/pfaresdocuments/VS/prem-gtmc-wef-09-apr-13-to-31-mar-14.xls

Upper Class

http://atpfares.ticketwindow.co.uk/pfaresdocuments/VS/upper-gtmc-wef-09-apr-13-to-31-mar-14.xls

Hire Car

Through this link staff members can save up to 20% on their personal hire (Location dependent) and so there is no requirement for

you to pass your personal car rental enquiries via Select to get the best rate.

http://www.affordablecarhire.com/en/search/index?travelAgent=6484

(This link takes you straight into the Agent page, you don't need to log in)

Thank You!

This month we’re pleased to introduce you to our New York Stock Exchange team based in London.

This team recently gained an amazing 98% overall customer satisfaction rate from a NYSE client survey.

From booking low cost airlines, to arranging ping pong tournaments, the team do the works.

‘It’s a real pleasure managing this team; they have had a few staff changes over the last year but the service

they provide hasn’t altered and they always give 100%. Their work is to the highest of standards and their

commitment to NYSE is second to none. Proven recently when NYSE signed with ATPI for another 3 years!

From a very proud team leader.’- Daxha Buchanan NYSE Team Leader

Daxha Buchanan

(Team Leader) Billy Harper

Carolyn

Brown Karen

Randall Sunny

Patel

Aliz

Masung

Lowestoft gets Dragon Boat racing!

Any comments or suggestions please contact supplierrelations@atpi.com

Lowestoft took their annual place in the Dragon Boat race on Sunday 2nd June raising

money for St Elizabeth Hospital. With the sun shining lots of staff turned up to take part or

just to support and cheer the team on!

The team did well and came 2nd... from last! But it’s the taking part the counts guys, well

done!

The Bets are on with a Night at the Dogs

Lowestoft took a break from doing the racing themselves and went to the dogs for an evening kindly sponsored by

Thistle and Guoman hotels.

Thistle and Guoman spent a day at our Lowestoft office providing Dominos pizza for lunch and taking 60 members of

staff for an evening at Yarmouth Stadium dog track, where we hear a few pennies were won. Spend them wisely!

This month we’re asking if you can recognise these familiar faces for £30 worth of Love2Shop

vouchers!

Send your answers through to supplierrelations@atpi.com

Competition closes on the 25th July 2013

Don’t Forget! Last months competition we asked you to guess the Royal Baby’s name which will remain open until the

baby is born.

You only have to guess and you could win £40 worth of Love2Shop vouchers!

Thai

London Heathrow Terminal 2 Update Heathrow Airport’s brand new Terminal 2 opens in a year’s time, on June 4th 2014, when 23 Star Alliance airlines, plus Aer Lingus, Virgin Atlantic Little Red and germanwings will move into the £2.5billion facility.

Over six months of testing – involving 14,000 people – will take place before Terminal 2 opens, with some 20 million passengers a year set to pass through the new building at its peak. A United Airlines flight from Chicago is due to be its first arrival. “This next step in Heathrow's transformation will deliver a better journey for passengers, a more efficient and reliable infrastructure for airlines and additional jobs, trade and economic growth for the UK,” says John Holland-Kaye, Heathrow development director. Terminal 2 will be Heathrow’s most sustainable terminal to date and marks the latest phase of an overall £11billion transformation of the airport. The old Terminal 2, which opened in 1955 and handled eight million passengers a year, was closed and demolished in 2009.

Passenger flow around the terminal has been carefully planned and there will be over 50 shops, 17 bars and restaurants, 60 fast-bag drops, 60 self-service kiosks, 56 traditional check-in desks and 24 security lanes. Mark Schwab, CEO of Star Alliance, says, “Our 23 member carriers at Heathrow generate more than 20 per cent of the airport’s overall traffic. Hence, it is only logical that we actively participate in the Terminal 2 project which will become our home at Heathrow." The 26 airlines will move into Terminal 2 over a period of six months, with just ten per cent of flights operating from it in the first three weeks of June before building up to full operations.

www.thebusinesstravelmag.com

Allan’s Leaving Special E

dition

Ben Napthine gets ready for Summer with a sponsored

Leg Wax!

Lowestoft’s Ben volunteered to raise money for MS charity by waxing his legs on the 21st

June. Ben raised a total of £161.50

His wife Ali is actively involved with the charity and even doing a trek to Iceland next

month (the country, not the local shop).

The worlds first truly international

brand, Intercontinental Hotels and

Resorts is located in more than 60

countries with local insight that

comes from over 60 years

experience.

Hualuxe is a upscale brand

that is designed specially for

Chinese travellers.

An upscale brand in major urban

centres, gateway cities and resort

destinations offering business

travellers high levels of comfort,

service and amenities.

‘NYSE recently asked ATP travelleaders( travelleaders is our travel partner in the US for NYSE ) to conduct a survey amongst their bookers of all travel services provided by ATP offices globally. The responses received for the London team were very complimentary and their hard work and efforts greatly contributed to a 98 per cent overall satisfaction result for the survey.’ - Colin Geddes NYSE Account Manager

If you’d like to nominate a team for ‘Meet the Team’, email the Supplier Relations team at supplierrelations@atpi.com

Hotel Indigo is known as the

industry’s first branded boutique

hotel, artfully combining the

conveniences and consistencies of a

brand hotel with the design cache

and service personality of a

boutique.

Holiday Inn is one of the world’s

most recognised brands with a

global reputation for service,

comfort and value.

A fresh, clean, uncomplicated

hotel choice offering comfort,

convenience and good value.

An extended stay hotel brand

offering comfortable and stylish

accommodation offering a sense

of comfort, connectivity

and community.

A clean, uncomplicated extended

stay hotel choice offering

convenience and good value.

EVEN hotels is the first hotel

brand designed for business and

leisure travellers who maintain a

healthy and active lifestyle and

are looking for a complete

wellness experience at a

mainstream price point.

British Airways

On the airline front the 787 Dreamliner has returned to the skies and will shortly go into service with British Airways. Their first routes will be Newark and Toronto. They will also be receiving delivery of the A380 very shortly too. Airbus also have a new aircraft coming. The A350 will be a 350 seat, wide-bodied aircraft; showing that the aviation industry continues to evolve.

Please keep the pictures coming in of your office events and enjoy these long sunny days whilst they are here.

And the winner for the pair of United tickets (including taxes) goes to-

Debbie O’Hagan based in our Aberdeen office.

Well done Debbie, we’ll get a photo in next month’s smartnews!

Back in May we gave you the chance to win with Air Canada and United and

we’re pleased to announce the winner of the Kindle Fire HD goes to-

Heidi Lamb

based in our Lowestoft office.

(You’re prize will be with your shortly)