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Bangkok, May 5, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / During its 70th Annual General Meeting held online on Thursday, April 29, 2021, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) presented PATA Life Membership to Scott Supernaw in recognition for his…

Bangkok, Thailand, May 4, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to welcome Expedia Group as its newest corporate member. "As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to adapt and evolve, technological…

Bangkok, Thailand, April 29, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Liz Ortiguera as its next Chief Executive Officer effective May 17, 2021, succeeding Dr. Mario Hardy who…

Bangkok, Thailand, April 9, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is calling for urgent action from all Thai travel and tourism industry stakeholders from both the public and private sectors to address the COVID-19…

Bangkok, Thailand, March 10, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / Organisations and individuals making outstanding contributions towards the successful promotion of the travel and tourism industry throughout the Asia Pacific region are encouraged to submit…

Bangkok, Thailand, March 5, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / Surayyal Hizmi, Lecturer Advisor of the PATA Lombok Tourism Polytechnic Student Chapter, is today named as the 2021 PATA Face of the Future. This is the most prestigious honour open to young…

Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, January 11, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) today announced that the PATA Annual Summit (PAS) 2021 will take place online from April 27-29. The three-day virtual event, organised with…

Bangkok, Thailand, December 8, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce the launch of PATA Marketplace, a digital showroom exclusive for PATA members and an online community for all travel…

Bangkok, Thailand, December 4, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / COVID-19 has and will continue to accelerate the development of technologies and solutions that will transform our daily lives, and travel and tourism organisations will need to use new…

Bangkok, Thailand, October 27, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has taken the bold move to make significant changes to the design of its organisational governance at the recent Board Meeting and Annual General…

Bangkok, Thailand, August 25, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) will be announcing the PATA Gold Awards 2020 live during Virtual PTM 2020. Supported and sponsored since 1995 by the Macao Government Tourism…

Bangkok, Thailand, August 17, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) today announced that Virtual PATA Travel Mart (PTM) 2020 will take place from September 23 - 27. Virtual PTM is a business-to-business…

Bangkok, Thailand, August 6, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has today become a signatory of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, led by the United Nations Environment Programme and World Tourism…

Bangkok, Thailand, July 15, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is excited to announce the launch of the expanded and revamped PATA Crisis Resource Center (CRC) to aid in the rapid, robust and responsible renewal…

Bangkok, Thailand, July 9, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is collaborating with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to expand its Crisis Resource Center (CRC) to provide further aid in the rapid, robust and…

Bangkok, Thailand, June 3, 2020 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce the launch of the Dream to Travel Festival, an online event that brings together travel trade businesses worldwide to learn,…

Bangkok, Thailand, April 24, 2020 /TRAVELINDEX/ Under the newly updated forecasts from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), the most likely scenario for international visitor arrivals into and across Asia Pacific in 2020 is that…

Bangkok, Thailand, April 9, 2020 / travelindex.com / Since 1984, the PATA Gold Awards has been setting standards for excellence and innovation within the travel and tourism industry, attracting hundreds of entries from destinations across…

Bangkok (Thailand), April 3, 2020 /travelindex.com/ It is unprecedented in our lives to experience such uncertainty and vulnerability as a society, and never before has our industry been impacted so heavily and so comprehensively. Clearly…

Bangkok (Thailand) - March 20, 2020 (travelindex.com) - Organisations and individuals making outstanding contributions towards the successful promotion of the travel and tourism industry throughout the Asia Pacific region are encouraged to…

Koror (Palau) - February 20, 2020 (travelindex.com) - PATA is honoured to welcome Palau First Lady Debbie M. Remengesau as the opening keynote speaker for its 2020 annual summit. As chairperson of the Palau Legacy Project, First Lady…

Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia) - February 14, 2020 (travelidnex.com) - The PATA Adventure Travel Conference and Mart 2020 began on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, attracting 368 delegates from 33 destinations in…

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (Malaysia) - January 29, 2020 (travelindex.com) - The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has gathered a diverse line-up of international experts at the forefront of the adventure travel industry to explore the…

Leshan, Sichuan (China) – January 2, 2020 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is set to organise PATA Travel Mart 2020 in Leshan, Sichuan, China from September 3-6. The event will be hosted by the Leshan Culture,…

Baku (Azerbaijan) – December 31, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to welcome the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan as its newest government member. The agency is the executive…

Bangkok (Thailand) – December 26, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to welcome Hilton as the newest sustainability partner for Travel Lab Asia, a platform for triple-bottom-line innovation in…

Kuching, Sarawak (Malaysia) – December 9, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is set to organise the PATA Destination Marketing Forum 2020 (PDMF 2020) in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia from November 25 - 27. The…

Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) – October 7, 2019 (travelindex.com) – In line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has announced its theme for 2020: ‘Partnerships for…

Bangkok (Thailand) – October 3, 2019 (travelindex.com) –The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce that PATA CEO Dr. Mario Hardy was awarded “Travel Personality of The Year” at the 30th Annual TTG Travel Awards 2019.…

Nur-Sultan ( Kazakhstan) – September 27, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) announced that the PATA Adventure Travel Conference and Mart 2020 (ATCM 2020) will be held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah at the Sutera…

Nur-Sultan ( Kazakhstan) – September 25, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), in partnership with ADB Ventures and Plug and Play, today announced the launch of Travel Lab Asia (TLA), Asia’s only corporate…

Macau (Macao SAR) – September 25, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Global Tourism Economy Forum (“GTEF” or “the Forum”) will convene in Macao under the theme “Tourism and Leisure: Roadmap to a Beautiful Life” on 13 - 15 October. Centered on the…

Nur-Sultan ( Kazakhstan) – September 21, 2019 (travelindex.com) – PATA Travel Mart 2019 (PTM 2019), generously hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kazakh Tourism National Company, has attracted…

Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) – August 30, 2019 (travelindex.com) – Leading speakers on tourism trends and insights are set to gather in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan for the PTM Forums taking place during PATA Travel Mart 2019 (PTM 2019) from September…

Bangkok (Thailand) – June 6, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce a new organisational partnership with Awecademy, a future-focused educational content provider that creates personalised…

Cebu (Philippines) – June 3, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has presented a series of awards to several individuals in recognition for their contributions to the responsible development of travel and…

Bangkok (Thailand) - May 23, 2019 (travelindex.com) - According to the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Annual Tourism Monitor 2019 Early Edition, Asia Pacific destinations collectively received almost 700 million international…

Cebu (Philippines) – May 14, 2019  (travelindex.com) - The sold-out PATA Annual Summit 2019 in Cebu, Philippines officially ended over the weekend. The conference featured opinion leaders from both public and private sectors, including the…

Hagatna, Guam (Micronesia) – April 24, 2019 (travelindex.com) – Flori-Anne dela Cruz, youth representative to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) Board of Directors, is today named as the 2019 PATA Face of the Future. This is the most…

Cebu (Philippines) - April 9, 2019 (travelindex.com) - The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is proud to announce that Airbnb co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer, and Chairman of Airbnb China, Nathan Blecharczyk has been confirmed to…

Rishikesh (India) - February 15, 2019 (travelindex.com) - The PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart 2019 began on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India with 300 delegates from 28 countries…

Bangkok (Thailand) - February 7, 2019 (travelindex.com) - The overall annual growth rate for international visitors into 40 Asia Pacific destinations is estimated to have been around 7.8 percent in 2018, generating an inbound volume of…

Bangkok (Thailand) - January 15, 2019 (travelindex.com) - The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is now accepting submissions for PATA Face of the Future 2019. Deadline for submissions is February 28, 2019. PATA is a not-for-profit…

Rishikesh, Uttarakhand (India) - January 8, 2019 (travelindex.com) - The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has gathered a diverse line-up of thought leaders, innovators and pioneers to share their insights and knowledge on one of the…

Khon Kaen (Thailand) - November 29, 2018 - The PATA Destination Marketing Forum 2018, with the theme 'Growth with Goals', officially began on Wednesday, November 28 attracting over 300 delegates from 25 destinations. The event, hosted by…

Astana (Kazakhstan) - November 6, 2018 (travelindex.com) - The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is set to organise PATA Travel Mart 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan in September. The event will be hosted by the Ministry of Culture and…

Guilin (China) - October 29, 2018 (travelindex.com) - The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and the People’s Government of Guilin, China held the 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and…

Ras Al Khaimah (United Arab Emirates) - October 12, 2018 (travelindex.com) - The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is set to organise the PATA Annual Summit 2020 from May 15-18 in Ras Al Khaimah, one of the fastest growing tourism…

Bangkok (Thailand) - September 25, 2018 (travelindex.com) - With the frequency and severity of natural disasters occurring around the world, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is ready to assist affected destinations around the…

London (Great Britain) - September 20, 2018 (travelindex.com) - The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to announce a new media partnership agreement with National Geographic Traveller (UK), the UK edition of National…