The airline industry spent $31 million lobbying Congress last year. The hotel industry plunked down $8 million and the cruise industry dropped more than $6 million on lobbying. How much did travelers spend to get their voices heard in Washington? Nothing.
That’s about to change.
A new tax-exempt organization called the Consumer Travel Alliance promises to tilt the balance in your favor.
But we need your help.
Please tell us which travel issues should be urgently addressed.
Click here to complete a brief travel survey.
We’ll be asking your for input on how we can best launch our membership drive and what kinds of cutting-edge products you feel would most useful, that can be added to our membership package.
Click here to complete the survey.
And we’re looking for a group of charter members willing to join now to help our start-up efforts in Washington. Please join our exclusive focus group, where we can swap ideas for how to make the travel industry a better place.
| Join the Consumer Travel Alliance Charter Focus Group |
| Visit this group |
Click here to visit ConsumerTravelAlliance.org.
If you want to simply send us suggestions, send them to me at:
leocha@consumertravelalliance.org
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FYI, your video shows a link to consumertravelalliance.com, which is a dead link. Your post above refers to .org, rather than .com.
An interesting idea. I’ll look forward to seeing this fleshed out more.
Thanks to everyone who alerted me that the http://www.consumertravelalliance.com wasn’t working. All is now fixed.
Great Idea. As a flight attendant in a ‘past life’, I am constantly amazed by the rudeness, insensitivity and outright lies perpetrated by employees in ALL service industries—especially the airlines and airport employees. There should be cash fines imposed by airlines that LIE when asked direct questions during delays, Substantial fines. AirTran held more than 100 passengers ‘hostage’ for eleven hours of delay—four of which were on the runway with fumes recirculating into the cabin. After a return to the gate, I ferreted out the true story: some 20+ passengers were stranded in Tampa, Fla.due to a ‘mechanical’ and we had to wait for them to arrive in Atlanta— most were going on to the Northeast after their Disneyland vacations. Rather than pay for overnight rooms/food for these 20 some folks…AirTran decided to pay for food vouchers to the delayed Atlanta people. Ridiculous. Truth is mandatory—not just convenient.