Protecting your Gay Holiday
Xpressionz is a trading name of Expressions Travel Services Ltd.
We comply with the 1992 European Regulations relating to Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours. We strongly believe that the financial protection that we offer customers who travel on our gay holidays gives the best security possible within the UK travel industry, especially now that ABTA have significantly reduced the protection that they offer.
Travel Trust Association
Xpressionz is a full member of the Travel Trust Association (TTA). Our membership number is: U7416.
The TTA is a Trade Association composed of Travel Agents, Tour Operators and Tour Organisers. The TTA was formed as a non-profit making organisation, and is designed to regulate its members and provide total financial protection to the consumers and recognised suppliers of TTA Members.
TTA regulations require all member Travel Operators and Agents to hold all received monies in a special ‘Trust Account’ that is completely independent of their regular business trading/current accounts.
An independent trustee supervises the Expressions Travel Services Ltd Trust Account. The trustee is a Banker, Chartered or Certified Accountant or a Solicitor who has been approved by the TTA. The trustee audits Xpressionz's accounts every month. The Trust Account is also backed by a fidelity insurance (see 'Safe Seat Plan' below).
All of the monies paid into the Trust Account, are only made available to us (Expressions Travel Services Ltd) on completion of your holiday, so your money is safe and there to run your holiday, whatever may happen to us (nothing we hope, of course!)
The TTA provides Financial Protection for your holiday through its Travel Protection Plan. This plan comprises two aspects:
The money is only released from the Trust Fund to pay for services for which you have booked.
Your payment to us will also include a ‘Safe Seat Plan’ insurance cover. This further protection means that if your money is not in the Trust Account, then you will be reimbursed for the loss of any amount that you have paid us (Expressions Travel Services Ltd) which covers any one passenger up to £11,000.
Therefore the Trust Account plus the Safe Seat Plan insurance coverage will ensure that all the money which you have paid us is 100% safely protected and available to pay for those services which you have booked.
As a TTA member we are required to prominently display our membership number on all of our invoices.
You can find further details about the Travel Trust Association on their website at www.traveltrust.co.uk.
ATOL Protection
We are licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority and hold ATOL Number T7334. This ensures that in the event of our failure your money will be protected; if you are on holiday at the time, arrangements will be made for you to complete your holiday and return home. The flights we provide are supplied by other ATOL holders and are protected by their bonds
