Rich Simpson

Governance & Compliance Manager at Midcounties Co-operative Travel (all views are my own!)

[Steve Dunlop Photographer @DunlopPhoto]

A teeny bit of manoeuvring along the #Seine by @UniworldCruises #JoieDeVivre and @MidcountiesPTA #PTAconf2023 delegates were last night provided with a spectacular view of #EiffelTower 😍 🇫🇷📷 Top Conference Finale 👏👏

[Steve Dunlop Photographer @DunlopPhoto]

Cripes it’s busy! 💥
Supplier & Partner Networking @MidcountiesPTA #PTAconf2023 🕺🏼📷. Loads of travel product knowledge being sold here!

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

Bonjour! (In a Del Boy accent) And conference underway. #PTAconf2023

[Steve Dunlop Photographer @DunlopPhoto]

Looking forward to covering 📷🕺🏼the always fab @midcountiescoop @MidcountiesPTA #PersonalTravelAgentsConference #Paris 🇫🇷 #PTAConf2023
Aboard the beautiful @UniworldCruises #JoieDeVivre I so enjoyed covering the 2017 Naming Ceremony: Godmother the glorious @Joancollinsdbe 😀

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

An early 3.30am start today to see this sunrise from the plane taking me to meet our Personal Travel Agents for their conference in Paris. Aboard a Uniworld river cruise. Happy Monday to you all ✈️ #PTAconf2023

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

@RichardHammond there is no way you didn’t paint an old car bonnet or door in both Nissan Micra blue and Delahaye sky blue. Were they identical really? Great start to the new series.

[ABTA LifeLine @ABTALifeLine]

Trudie Clements, Director of LifeLine has just been speaking on stage at @TheTravelConv about how your donations are helping vulnerable people in our travel community and LifeLine received an incredible cheque from @RoyalCaribbean for a whopping £10,000! #ABTABodrum

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

@KCookes Nice! Be busier on the way back I suspect!

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

Great to be at the ABTA travel convention again, this year it’s hosted in Bodrum, Turkey. #ABTAbodrum official opening last night and sessions underway with a great agenda.

[Travlaw @TravlawLegal]

We had a great time at #HTLive! Great to meet face to face for industry wide discussions and knowledge sharing on the latest developments in travel! Thanks to those who came, and look out for more from Team Travlaw!
#travel #law #ptrconsultation

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

Heading home after a great few hours with team @TravlawLegal talking Hot Topics. #HTlive with an early kickoff discussion of the PTR call for evidence amongst other things. Good to see you folks

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

Enjoying day 1 of the consortium conference. Even though the ship is swaying a bit on MSC Virtuosa. #TCTCCONF23

[Steve Dunlop Photographer @DunlopPhoto]

Alison Holmes kicks off #YourCoOp Consortia Conference @AlisonHolmes4
#TCTCCONF23 @CoopConsortium Travel Conference 2023 #MakingItHappen @midcountiescoop

[Steve Dunlop Photographer @DunlopPhoto]

And business sessions are underway @ #TCTCCONF23 @CoopConsortium @AlisonHolmes4 Travel Conference 2023 #MakingItHappen @midcountiescoop #YourCoOp

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

@OctopusEnergy Excellent 👍🏻 if you need any testers then give me a shout. Happy to help.

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

@OctopusEnergy any chance of an ioniq5 slot on intelligent? I am on the tariff already but old car doesn’t connect now so just charging during the off peak slots. Thanks! 🐙⚡️🚗

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

And that’s a wrap. Another great event. Great content, speakers and discussions. Well done @ABTAevents. Networking amongst industry colleagues and friends next over lunch. #ABTAtravelmatters

[Sophie Griffiths 🇺🇦 @TTGTravelQueen]

Meanwhile 78% of travel businesses say Brexit will have a more significant long term impact on their business than Covid.
Those sunlit uplands really aren’t looking so rosy are they @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @BorisJohnson @Nigel_Farage #ABTAtravelmatters

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

Continue to hear the negatives of Brexit. Impact to my industry is 78% of businesses have seen more long term (harmful) impact from Brexit than Covid.

Still a terrible decision we all made back in June 2016 🇪🇺🇬🇧 #ABTAtravelmatters @ABTAevents

[Rich Simpson @RichWSimpson]

Great session here and to see the work being done around education for the industry. Aiming to tackle the issues around funding of courses to keep the industry pipeline of talent coming through. #ABTAtravelmatters #BePartOfTravel @ABTAevents