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Association of Special Fares Agents

Association of Special Fares Agents
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Formation 1986
Headquarters Sofia, Bulgaria
Membership
1608
Official language
English
President
Koos Jan Schouten
Staff
4
Website www.asfa.net

The Association of Special Fares Agents, or ASFA, consists of Airline Consolidators, Bucket shops and Discount Travel Agents.

The main purpose of ASFA is the exchange of knowledge in regards to discounted airline tickets on the same air route offered in different markets.

After a preliminary meeting in Frankfurt, Germany in 1985, the first ever association of discount travel agents was formed in 1986 by a small group of German, Swiss, Dutch, Singaporean, Australian and English travel agents.

The association was founded as ITA (International Travel Association) in Amsterdam by Ad Latjes, Koos Schouten, Folke von Knobloch, Rudi Weissmann, Daniel Staeger and other discount travel industry experts as a platform for discount travel specialists, consolidators and bucketshops from all over the world.

Because of disagreements between the founding members about territorial exclusivity at a meeting in Singapore in April 1987 the name was changed to ASFA. ASFA was to allow multiple agents per country, while ITA continued as a small cartel.

Ad Latjes, the famous Dutch travel entrepreneur broke away from ASFA in 1989 to establish ETN (European Travel Network).

The administrative office of ASFA moved in 1998 to Sofia, Bulgaria.


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