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ACTA
A brief history of the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents
The Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) is
predominantly the non-governmental organization that
monitors all local and international developments concerning
the issues of tourism and travel and performs responsible
policy to rationalize these forward.
ACTA incorporates the majority of Cyprus Travel Agents
and Tour Operators, who represent nearly all foreign tourism
companies and organizations cooperating with our country.
Official recognition and affirmation of the responsible position
of ACTA and its important role, is the fact that it has been
designated, by legislation, as the License Authority for Cypriot
Tour Operators.
ACTA completed 60 years since its founding in 1954 and has
emerged throughout this period as the organization which
establish the solid foundations of the Cyprus Tourism and
travel with its vision, planning and responsible behavior.
From its first days ACTA insisted on an orderly development
and upgrading of the tourism industry and had been pressing
for the establishment of a regulatory body for the tourist
trade. It is clearly recorded in the minutes of ACTA Special
General Meeting of September 1960, less than a month after
the official Act of Independence of the Cyprus Republic, that
the Association presented to the Ministry of Commerce and
Industry the need for an Advisory Committee to the Tourist
Development Office of the Government and for proper re-
classification of existing hotels and regular inspection of all
places of tourist interest and use. ACTA also emphasized the
need for appropriate tourist legislation, providing, inter alia,
for conditions and prerequisites under which a Travel Agent
may be considered and officially registered as an approved
Licensed Agent.
«Πολλών δ’ανθρώπων ιδεν άστεα και • For better planning and management the need for a
νόον έγνω.» Ομήρου Οδύσσεια α, 3 tourism regulating body was highlighted and the Cyprus
Tourism Organisation (CTO) was eventually formed in 1973
«Many were the men whose cities he by Government legislation.
saw and whose mind he learned.» • In 1974 immediately after the catastrophe of the Turkish
Homer Odyssey a,3 invasion and the occupation of a large part of Cyprus,
ACTA joined the membership of the Cyprus Chamber of
Homer the poet of all times in his Commerce and Industry (CCCI) which offered to ACTA full
description of the main hero of his epic secretariat facilities in the Chamber offices. Capitalizing on
«Odyssey» sketches out the desires and CCCI membership, ACTA achieved upgraded recognition
both at national and international field. In the same year The
inner feelings of people of all times.
Association was fully established as a legal body and in the
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