Diners Club Asata Awards – wait for a call!

TRAVEL consultants should expect phone calls from Grant Thornton from the second week in January. Researchers will be asking questions and noting agents’ responses to determine the winners of the 2006 Diners Club Asata Awards. The survey is aimed at evaluating supplier’s service levels to the travel trade. Diners Club and Asata stress that the survey is based on service to the trade and not to score the suppliers according to their product (eg. lie flat beds, hotel facilities, etc), but rather on accurate quotes, turnaround times. The winning suppliers in each category will be announced, as usual, at the Diners Club-sponsored gala dinner on March 23, during the Asata Congress. Kate Nathan (katen@nowmedia.co.za)