“Cost, Congestion and Competition – The Realities of Remaining Competitive,” will be the theme of the upcoming PATA Hub City Forum Sydney, to be held in Sydney, Friday, February 12 at the Sir Stamford Hotel, Macquarie St.

International visitor arrivals into Asia between January and September 2012 showed a collective increase of 5.5 per cent year-on-year, according to preliminary results released today by the Pacific Asia Travel Association. During the first nine months of the year, the 4.7 per cent collective growth rate for north-east Asia was somewhat lower than the Asia average, however this percentage increase translated to around 7.8 million additional international visitor arrivals to the sub-region.

During the World Travel Market 2012 in London, representatives from the Chengdu Host Committee and PATA have discussed on the preparation of PATA Travel Mart 2013, which will take place on September 25-27 at Century City New International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.

Martin J. Craigs, the Chief Executive Officer of PATA, the Pacific Asia Travel Association, invited a group of selected Tourism Ministers and experts in the field of tourism for a meeting followed by dinner at the House of Commons in London.

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), in collaboration with the Marketing & International Cooperation Department of China National Tourism Administration and the ASEAN-China Centre, will organize the 2nd China Responsible Tourism Forum (CRTF) on November 16, 2012 at the Parkview Hotel in Shanghai, China.

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is to break new ground in the conduct and content of industry forums globally by holding the first-ever debate on the future of travel and tourism between the PATA CEO and a leading regional travel journalist.