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PATA and PhoCusWright enhance partnership
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with PhoCusWright, the leading global travel industry research authority. The affiliation will help deliver key research findings on the Asia Pacific travel marketplace.
Warm hospitality to be fully provided for tourists across Thailand
In spite of the current political situation in Thailand, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports encourages tourists to continue visiting various attractions around Thailand, and assures the public that, as always, very warm hospitality and a Thai smile will be extended to visitors from around the world.
Routes signs up with PATA to promote international aviation
Routes and the Pacific Asia Travel Association have reached a two year agreement to collaborate to advance the understanding of the value of airline connectivity for destinations. This preferred partnership will enable Routes and PATA to collaborate on the development of programmes around both World Routes and Routes’ regional events that will give a clearer focus on the main trade, tourism, and human dimensions of connectivity.
Routes and PATA enter preferred partnership
Routes (part of UBM Live) and the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) reached a 2 year agreement during the World Routes event in Las Vegas, to collaborate to advance the understanding of the value of airline connectivity for destinations.
Global Sustainable Tourism Council growing presence in Asia
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) ‘s signature annual event, PATA Travel Mart, just concluded in Chengdu, China and the GSTC capitalised on the size and scope of the event to generate exposure thanks to the collaboration of the GSTC Market Access Working Group and GSTC member Mt. Huangshan Scenic Area Administrative Committee (HSAC).
Asia Pacific international visitor surge continues
International visitor arrivals into Asia and the Pacific grew by six percent in June 2013, the latest month for which comprehensive pan-regional results are available. The figures for June are among the strongest year-on-year growth performances so far this year.
PATA bigs farewell to its China Director
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) bids farewell to its much admired Regional Director – Greater China, Ms. Kate Chang, who has accepted a position with the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Bureau in the Beijing office.
Martin Craigs, chief executive, PATA
Martin Craigs, chief executive, PATA, speaks to Breaking Travel News at the World Travel & Tourism Council Asia Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
PATA partners with New Zealand Maori Tourism
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has accepted the New Zealand Māori Tourism’s exceptional bid to host the second Pacific Asia Indigenous Tourism Conference (PAITC) and PATA Board Meetings in Rotorua, New Zealand from April 4-9, 2014
PATA records boost to Asia Pacific tourism
International visitor arrivals into Asia Pacific destinations have expanded at better than eight per cent over the first part of the year according to preliminary estimates released by the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Across the 31 destinations for which data is currently available, this translates into more than eight million additional arrivals over and above those received for the corresponding periods of last year.
UNWTO signs new partnership with PATA
Advancing economic diversification, cultural and environmental preservation through tourism are the key objectives of a new Strategic Partnership signed between UNWTO and the Pacific Asia Travel Association. The lasting support to the development objectives and the positioning of tourism as a central contributor to economic growth and sustainability in Asia are at the centre of the Strategic Partnership.
PATA predicts continued growth in regional travel
Officials at the Pacific Asia Travel Association and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Hotel & Tourism Management released their joint publication, the Asia Pacific Visitor Forecasts 2013-2017. The new forecasts on the complete visitor economy will make it easier for tourism organisations to anticipate demand trends and manage supply.