Article: Seamless switch: Mike Londregan's high regard for agents matches the views of his predecessor at the ATC. (Destination: South Pacific).(Australian Tourism Commission)(Brief Article)

U.S. travel agents reluctantly said goodbye to one of their biggest supporters last year when Lyndel Grey was transferred to the Australian Tourism Commission's (ATC) head office in Sydney, where she is now the ATC's executive general manager for the Western Hemisphere. Grey's insistence on the agent first reversed years of ATC policy in the U.S. and led to the creation of one of the best of the specialty agent programs, the Aussie Specialists.

In choosing Mike Londregan to replace Grey as vice president for the Americas, however, the ATC found a marketing professional who takes the same tactical approach to the job that Gray did. In his previous position as the ...

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