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PATA plans Dubai chapter
5 June, 2007
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
plans to start a chapter in Dubai, the
United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The decision was taken when Khalid bin
Sulayem, director-general of Dubai
Department of Tourism and Commerce
Marketing (DTCM), and Peter de Jong,
president of the Pacific Asia Travel
Association, met in the United Arab
Emirates recently.
At the meeting, Khalid bin Sulayem and
Peter de Jong discussed PATA’s ability
to provide useful, detailed research
of mainly Asian markets and how this
can be shared with the DTCM.
Earlier in 2006, the Dubai Department
of Tourism and Commerce Marketing had
joined the Pacific Asia Travel
Association as a member.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association,
founded in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1951
and headquartered in Bangkok,
Thailand, is a not-for-profit
organisation. It is the recognised
authority on Pacific Asia travel and
tourism and serves government tourist
offices, airlines, hotels and other
travel-related companies in the region
and beyond.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association
provides leadership to the collective
efforts of over 45 national government
members, 48 state and local tourism
bodies, 66 airlines and cruise lines –
a total of nearly 2,000 travel
industry companies. PATA membership
includes 17,000 travel professionals
in over 80 PATA chapters located
throughout the world.
Meanwhile, Thailand has been selected
as the host country of the first
Asia-Pacific travel and tourism
leadership summit, to be organised by
the Pacific Asia Travel Association,
in April 2008.
According to a PATA spokesman, the
summit will focus on high-level
strategic business issues with cross-sectoral
relevance, impacting the Asia Pacific
travel and tourism industry in the
next one year.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association,
replacing its annual conferences, is
seeking to attract organisations in
the hotel, financial investment and
aviation sectors to conduct focused,
quality programmes with CEO-level
participation from the travel and
tourism and allied businesses.
About 500 delegates are expected to
attend the two-day event in Bangkok.
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