Excite Holidays goes under

It’s just over 12 months since the formerly fast-growing Excite Holidays ceased to be part of the AFTA Travel Accreditation Scheme - a move described at the time as a “voluntary withdrawal”. Curiously, Excite’s high-profile directors, Nicholas Stavropoulos and George Papaioannou, have never made any public statements about the company’s pullout from ATAS, despite multiple approaches at the time from Travel Daily and travelbulletin – and in stark contrast to the enthusiasm with which they approached the scheme when Excite was first accredited back in 2014.