TORONTO, Canada 9, March 2022: Founder of G Adventures, Bruce Poon Tip, thanked Sabre for removing Aeroflot from its fare and travel content distribution system, praising it for stepping up and doing the right thing.
But he calls for the travel industry to step up and support sanctions and prevent Russia from using booking sites and tour booking systems.
“The power to have the most dramatic impact in travel right now lies in the hands of one company, and last week it stepped up and did the right thing. Without Sabre, Aeroflot cannot issue tickets, which will cause mass disruption for domestic travel in Russia.”
He claimed that all across the travel
industry, businesses are uniting and cancelling tours to Russia and, in the
case of G Adventures, banning resident Russian nationals from trips to apply
internal pressure and invoke change.
“This is what we need to come together
in travel to embrace our ability to be a transformational industry. Just a few
hours before…