Following two years of travel restrictions, we ask industry leaders to give their view of the current situation and their outlook for the coming year.

Ian Taylor is executive editor of Travel Weekly Group, reporting online and in print for Travel Weekly, Travel Weekly Business, Travel Weekly Europe and Travel Weekly Insight.

He reports sector-wide on aviation, leisure and corporate travel, inbound and outbound and moderates events. He is a career journalist who has worked in travel for most of the last 20 years.

Sarah Bradley is Managing Director of Journey Latin America, the UK’s No.1 specialist, offering personalised tailor-made holidays and escorted small-group tours to all parts of Latin America and Antarctica.

Sarah has previously served on the LATA committee, including as chair, and currently sits on the Council of AITO, the Specialist Travel Association.

Sarah has an MBA and a BA Hons in Modern Languages.

Christopher is one of the owners of cazenove+loyd, a London-based tour operator covering Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin America. He set up their Latin America division over 20 years ago.

Widely travelled in Central and South America, he has always felt that it had more potential and deserves a higher profile. c+l has some of the most demanding and exacting clients in the UK and US but they also want real experiences. This has meant the need for the very best partners in its destinations- Latin America can always deliver but it is always about relationships and LATA is about just that.

Christopher joined the LATA Committee in 2020.

Colin Stewart has been Chairman of LATA, the Latin American Travel Association, since September 2017. During his tenure the association has significantly increased its activities, with industry-leading initiatives including the launch of the LATA Academy on the industry’s leading agent training platform, and developing LATA Expo into Europe’s leading B2B event for the Latin American travel sector.

As Country Director of Air Europa he has led the airline’s growth in the UK & Ireland for the past ten years to make Air Europa one of the world’s leading airlines serving Latin America. Having started with only 3 Latin American destinations on offer, over the last ten years the network has grown and now serves over 20 destinations to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jutta is Sales & Marketing Director of South American Tours (SAT), a leading DMC with offices across South America and a strong position in the European tour operator market. She heads the SAT Global Sales Office in Frankfurt am Main, coordinating all related sales strategies and global activities.

Jutta is also Vice President of the German Travel Association Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lateinamerika (ArgeLA), a non-profit organization to promote tourism to Latin America. With around 90 international members, ArgeLa is the most important contact and meeting place for travel professionals in German speaking markets for the destination.

James co-founded Viaventure in 2001 in order to share with others what he had discovered traveling throughout Central America: a magical place full of natural, historical, and cultural wonders. Over the past two decades, James has helped shape Viaventure into one of the region’s most respected tour operators, curating bespoke journeys and travel experiences from Mexico to Panama.

James grew up on a ranch in California and credits his mother, an archaeologist, with fueling his passion for exploration and discovery. He joined her on many adventures, from local horseback expeditions searching for lost Native American sites, to traversing active lava flows in Hawaii, to a 12,000 mile road trip from California to Panama and back. Enamored with Central America, James returned and settled in the beautiful Spanish colonial city of Antigua Guatemala, where he and his partners started Viaventure.