About ISTAA

International Sports Travel Agencies Association (ISTAA)
 
ISTAA was created in June 2009 as a partnership of Sports Travel Agencies worldwide. ISTAA members meet once a year and hold an Annual General Meeting in conjunction with an annual conference at the location of one of the members. The conference is the largest annual reunion of members: sports travel bureaus, organizations, event management firms, and other industry professionals. The programme for delegates includes Sports Travel Agencies Exchange Workshops and presentations of sports events representatives.

It is a consortium where each travel agency is locally owned and managed in several countries  like: United Kingdom, Israel, Malta, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, USA, Republic San Marino, Belgium, Armenia, Iceland, Latvia, Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Switzeralnd, Argentina, South Africa, Croatia, Australia, Germany, France, Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republik.

Each member of association receives a certificate confirming his membership.

During the conference in October 2009 in Warsaw participants agreed for the basic criteria of selecting the right sports travel partners.
The company partner's specialization shall be sports  travel,  it shall be IATA accredited agent or have proper local travel  license from own country, should be dynamic, financially sound and of solid reputation and recommended by  minimum one ISTAA member . The travel agency should be beneficial of contract with federation or sport clubs or olympic committee.

Participants agreed also to establish ISTAA ‘s Board of Directors: 

Mr. Zbigniew Wróbel
Vice President Club &Travel
President of ISTAA
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Mrs. Barbara Dziedzic
Director General Club & Travel
Secretary General of ISTAA
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• Ms. Snezana Malusevic, Director, PLAVI PLAVI, Serbia
• Mr. Ori Barak, Operation Manager ISSTA SPORT, Israel
• Mr. Andrew Sullivan, Director, P&A SULLIVAN, Malta
• Mr. David Segel, Managing Director, WEST END TRAVEL, UK