all members who have paid their subscription for this year.
If you need to make changes to your details, you can do so online here .
BUSINESS CARDS :
We are again taking orders for business cards.
For 200 cards the cost is £25.00 for postage within the UK and £30.00 for postage overseas.
If you have passed the Tour Managers examination, you can have the letters CTM after your name. (Certified Tour Manager) .
As always, we require ten orders to complete an order. Please send written details and cheque to BR office.
Membership Categories.
- AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP is open to new Tour Managers who have been working for at least one season and have successfully completed a nationally recognised Tour management training course. Affiliates receive all
Bulletins and Newsletters and may attend Congress and regional meetings and participate in Study Tours. They do not have voting rights.
- SILVER BADGE MEMBERSHIP is open to Tour Managers with one years experience on the road or College/ University students who have spent two years in a recognised Travel and Tour Management course and one year on the road.
- GOLD BADGE MEMBERSHIP is open to Tour Managers with a minimum of five years experience on the road.
- JOINT MEMBERSHIP is open to married or co-habiting couples who are at present individual active members
sharing the same address.
- ALLIED MEMBERSHIP is open to establishments which provide products and services for Tour Managers and their groups.
- ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP is open to Tour & Coach Operators, Agents, Shipping Lines, Tourist Boards, Guide Associations etc.
- INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP is open to an individual working for one of the above listed Associate categories.
- PASSIVE MEMBERSHIP is available to Retired Tour Managers.
These categories are listed in the front of the handbook but we have had several requests from some of our newer members to clarify them.
Any active member (ie Gold or Silver badge) can propose an applicant for membership provided the applicant is known to them.
All new applicants will be required to furnish a company reference.
Last year was a great year for recruiting new active members but there are still many Tour Managers out there who are not members.
Let us all try and encourage these colleagues to join.
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Are You Certified?
Since 1999 over fifty members have sat the examination of tour management set out by Breda College in the Netherlands and
certified by
IATM.
If you are not one of these,
WHY NOT?
Application should be made to Ron Julian, General Manager,
IATM, 397 Walworth Road, London SE17 2AW.
The cost for the examination is £180.00, which includes the cost of the study manual. The study manual is available from Ron in advance to enable you to prepare at a cost of £20.00, deductible from the exam fee.
Why not make the effort and gain the qualification to prove that you are capable of doing the job you have been doing all these years.
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DRIVERS HOURS
New Driver's Hours.
With effect from 11 April 2007, the basic rules on driving times have been amended
to ensure driving hours, rest periods and breaks taken within EU member states or
third countries are fully and properly observed.
The electronic personal driver card and digital tachograph recorder will ensure observance of driving times and rest periods over 15 days prior to an enforcement check
taking place (from 1st
January 2008 the time period will be increased to 28
days). Data from the driver card will be electronically stored, eventually enabling
rapid and comprehensive roadside checks covering periods up to a full year to be
evaluated.
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Daily driving time 9 hours which may extend to 10 hours twice in a working
week (defined as from 00.00 hrs on Monday to 00.00 hrs on Sunday)
·
Maximum permitted driving time within a working week: 56 hours
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Maximum accumulated driving time within a period of two working weeks:
90 hours
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Following a driving period of 4 hrs 30 minutes, a driver must take an uninterrupted break of not less than 45 minutes. This break time may be divided into
one period of not less than 15 minutes and a second of at least 30 minutes,
distributed in such a way as to comply with the driving period requirement.
·
The regular daily rest period is set at 11 hours which may be reduced to 9
hours on most three occasions between any two consecutive regular weekly
rest periods of 45 hours each.
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In any two consecutive weeks, a driver may take one regular weekly rest
period and one reduced weekly rest period of not less than 24 hours. The
reduced time must be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken be
fore the end of the third week following. (Such compensatory rest shall be
attached to another rest period of at least nine hours)
·
Regular daily and weekly reduced rest periods away from base may be taken
on board ferries, or trains, so long as the driver has access to a bunk or
couchette. Similarly such rest periods may be taken on a stationary coach
equipped with a purpose-built driver’s bunk.
·
Coach operating companies are now held fully liable for infringements com
mitted by drivers in their employ, even when occurring on the territory of an
other EU member state or a third country. Principal contractors, subcontractors, driver employment agencies and tour operators are similarly deemed
liable.
Note: a considerable number of analogue tachographs open to a broader roadside
interpretation over +/- 15 days will remain in service for a couple more years.
There have been reports that the new driving hours rules are already being enforced
in Austria and Belgium . Drivers operating with a digital tachograph are asked to
produce their digital "driver card " together with a print-out of activities over the
previous fifteen days. In Austria , when this has proved impossible an offence was
recorded.
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MASTERCARD
MASTERCARD now have Global Service, which allows a toll-free call to cancel lost
and stolen cards, and to arrange emergency replacements.
| Austria 0800 218 235 |
Poland 0800 111 1211 |
| Britain 0800 964 767 |
Spain 900 971 231 |
| France 0800 901 387 |
US 1 636 7227111 |
| Germany 0800 819 1040 |
China 10 800 110 7309 |
| Greece 00 800 11 887 0303 |
Ireland 1 800 55 7378 |
| Italy 800 870 866 |
All others call to US collect |
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Until now clients have had to call their own bank, which means trying to find numbers
in different time zones, now the Global Service will contact the issuing bank direct and
advise of the loss.
Where the bank has the facility, emergency replacements can be arranged.
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Are you wearing yours?
Announcing the new style
IATM badge. A smart little number with gold logo on a dark
blue background, with an easy to fasten butterfly clip.
This new model will be issued to all new members, and can also be obtained by existing members (now's the chance to replace that lost one!) for the paltry sum of £5.00.
Those of you who have the old style badge can continue to wear it with pride, in fact, don't lose it as this has now become a collectable
item!
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Newsletter by E-Mail
The British Region of
IATM have started distributing the bulletin in an electronic format.
The chosen format is the Adobe Acrobat format, which allows us to send a smaller file size, thus reducing cost and time wastage.
This eliminates any security implications, because we will be sending it via E-Mail. Therefore it will only go where we want it to
go where we want it to go, and
will not be available on the internet for the public to read.
We will still be producing the printed version of the Bulletin for those of you whom this new method of distribution does not suit!
This new method of distribution does cut down on some of our administrative costs.
If you want to have a printed version, then please
E-Mail us.
In order to read the electronic version of the bulletin, you must have installed an Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The reader can be downloaded (free of charge) by clicking on the Adobe button below.
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