AITO announces 2009 winners of its Travel Company of the Year awards

Today, AITO announces the two winners of its coveted Travel Company of the Year awards. Safari Drive, specialists in self-drive and tailor-made safaris to Africa and Oman, retains the award for the best small company (less than 3,000 passengers per annum), with French specialist VFB Holidays taking top spot in the larger company category (over 3,000 passengers per annum). These prestigious awards, voted for by consumers, reflect both companies’ unrivalled levels of customer service, allied with expertise and quality, in line with AITO’s long-standing philosophy.

Comments AITO Chairman Derek Moore: “It gives us great satisfaction to see two excellent tour operators take these awards for 2009. Safari Drive and VFB Holidays are recognised as leading companies in their respective markets and these awards are an endorsement of all their hard work. AITO sets extremely high standards for all its members and diligently scrutinises thousands of customer satisfaction questionnaires across all 140 AITO operators to select the annual winners. To receive one of the AITO Travel Company of the Year awards is to be acknowledged as one of the finest tour operators in the UK.

“It has been an excellent start to 2010 for VFB Holidays, as they also took top spot in the prestigious Holiday Which? consumer awards last week.”