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Protected Trust Services is to launch a “new-style consortium” for experienced agents who want to be “masters of their own destiny”. PTS, which started as a Package Travel Regulations compliance service for operators in 2006, is to hold open days as it looks to take on at least 120 agents in the next year. It bills itself…

Travel industry protection firm Protected Trust Services has revamped its website to promote the fact it offers ‘one complete solution’ to tour operators and travel agents. The group said it was keen to get the message out it can fufil a range of travel firms’ needs, from merchant services, insurance to industry compliance and travel…

Protected Trust Services has reported a surge in popularity in the trust account model with 37 new members joining in the last three months of 2018. This represents double the number of members who joined the travel industry protection firm in the last quarter of 2017. Members pay a fee to join PTS and in…

Six criminals within six months have been prevented from “consortia-hopping” thanks to the trade’s first industry-wide fraud intelligence database. The Fraud Intelligence Network (Fin) is a database of more than 1,000 criminals. After a soft launch in June, it officially launches this week, at the culmination of the Prevention of Fraud in Travel (Profit) cybercrime…