Sunil Kumar, who has been recently elected as the President of TAAI, was unanimously elected at President of the United Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations(UFTAA) at the Annual General Assembly of UFTAA held at Brussels, on the 8th & 9th November 2015.
Yossi Fatael of ITAO, and a very powerful IATA matters debater, was elected as the Vice President and S.G. Kaka of KATA, was elected as the VP Finance. The Board of UFTAA which comprises of nine elected officers will soon meet and assign portfolios and committees.
Kumar’s landmark election will offer his Leadership to UFTAA as it celebrates its Golden jubilee, this year.
UFTAA, born in Rome in 1966, is a conglomeration of various associations in the world. Kumar, in his address to the Annual General Assembly, sought the members to re-visit its goals to get UFTAA its pioneer status globally, for there are several prominent leaders of the world and associations that had contributed to the well-being of UFTAA during these 5 Decades of successful existence. He shared his happiness that this highly reputed international organization which was a result of an initiative by a past president of TAAI, J.N Guzder at Mumbai and thus is an opportune time for India to steer UFTAA beyond its past glory.
UFTAA had taken some most outstanding decisions in this Annual General Assembly including inviting Affiliate membership from Individual Travel Agencies at an annual fee of only 100/Euro 150 EURO from across the world. Kumar said that the new “Institutional membership” that UFTAA looks forward to, can support this connect more strongly.
