The Association of Canadian Travel Agencies, known as ACTA, is a national not-for-profit trade association. ACTA’s voting members are retail travel agents. Tour operators, travel wholesalers and national and international travel suppliers, such as airlines, hotels, car rental companies and cruise and rail lines also provide valued support and input as allied members. Travel schools, destination marketing organizations and tourism and travel associations round out membership in Canada’s largest travel association. ACTA’s primary commitment to members is to maintain ongoing, effective representation and dialogue with both industry and government organizations on a wide variety of issues of concern and relevance to their business environment.

http://www.acta.ca

The Official trade organization of the cruise industry, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) exists to educate, train, promote and explain the value, desirability and affordability of the cruise vacation experience. CLIA also works in partnership with nearly 17,000 affiliated travel agencies throughout North America to ensure the highest calibre of cruise sales expertise and service for cruise vacationers. The function of CLIA is to promote the cruise product generically to both the selling agent and buying public through the broad activities of travel agent training, public relations and advertising. CLIA's end objective is to raise awareness about the cruise experience.

http://www.cruising.org

The Travel Industry Council of Ontario is self-managed, not-for-profit corporation mandated by the Ontario government to administer the Ontario Travel Industry Act, 2002 which governs all of the approximately 3,000 travel retailers and travel wholesalers registered in Ontario. In addition, TICO administers an industry-financed Travel Compensation Fund.

The Travel Industry Council of Ontario's mission is to promote a fair and informed marketplace where consumers can be confident in their travel purchases. It accomplishes this through developing high standards and efficient, effective and relevant regulatory mechanisms in areas such as:

· consumer protection
· consumer education and awareness
· registration, inspection, supervision and discipline of registrants
· investigating and mediating disputes between consumers and registrants

http://www.tico.on.ca

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the global trade organization for Air transport.

IATA’s mission is to represent, lead and serve the airline industry. Its members comprise some 260 airlines representing 94 percent of international scheduled air traffic.

IATA seeks to improve understanding of the industry among decision makers and increase awareness of the benefits that aviation brings to national and global economies.

IATA’s aim is to help airlines help themselves by simplifying processes and increasing passenger convenience while reducing costs and improving efficiency. Safety is IATA’s number one priority, and IATA’s goal is to continually improve safety standards. Another main concern is to minimize the impact of air transport on environment.

IATA ensures that people and goods can move around the global airline network as easily as if they were on a single airline in a single country. In addition, it provides essential professional support to all industry stakeholders with a wide range of products and expert services, such as publications, training and consulting. IATA’s financial systems also help carriers and the travel industry maximise revenues.

IATA serves as an intermediary between airlines and passenger as well as cargo agents via neutrally applied agency service standards and centralised financial systems.

http://www.iata.org