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Hawaii’s Big Island Launches Green Site
The Hawaiian Islands host over 7 million visitors each year - 7x the resident population - while it is home to the highest number of endangered and threatened plant and animal species of anyplace on the planet.
PATA continues to support sustainable tourism with new partnerships
These partnerships are designed to provide PATA and its members guidance and access to the STCRC’s extensive research and range of sustainable, practice tools, creating a platform from which to raise awareness and share ‘Best Practice’ principles regarding corporate responsibility options.
Leading futurist Dr. Ian Yeoman delivers Keynote at PATA Tourism Strategy Forum
One of the world’s leading tourism industry futurists, Dr. Ian Yeoman will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Tourism Strategy Forum, which is bringing together tourism marketers, planners and strategists from across the Asia Pacific region.
Thailand looks for more visitors despite political chaos in Bangkok
The current political stand-off and state-of-emergency following clashes among protesters in Bangkok is greatly effecting tourism in Thailand, yet almost all tourism facilities and services are functioning normally throughout the rest of the country.
Kerala Tourism wins the best tourism website award
Kerala Tourism’s official website, www.keralatourism.org, has won the Net4 PC World Web Award 2008 instituted by the technology magazine PC World, for the best tourism website in India. In its second year, the PC World Web Awards chose www.keralatourism.org from among 57 websites across 31 popular categories.
Responsible Tourism declaration and conference papers
Kerala declaration on Responsible Tourism adopted at the Incredible India Second International Conference on Responsible Tourism and fifteen papers presented at the conference are now available on internet.
Rebuilding Hope and Opportunity in Myanmar and Sichuan
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Foundation is calling on the travel industry to support a recovery fund to help rebuild the lives of tourism industry employees in the devastated areas of Myanmar and Sichuan, China.
Asia’s travel and tourism leaders discuss challenge of climate change
The inaugural Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) CEO Challenge conference took place in Bangkok, Thailand earlier this week. Entitled ‘Confronting Climate Change’, the region’s travel and tourism industry was encouraged to collaborate on a range of environmental initiatives.
