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PATA 60th Anniversary and Conference

April 9 - 12, 2011

China World Hotel

Beijing, China

OVERVIEW

PATA’s 60th Anniversary and Conference proved to be the most exciting event of the 2011 tourism calendar. It marked both the return of the PATA Annual Conference and a celebration of six decades of building tourism. It was considered a must-attend event for anyone concerned with the future development of travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific region – the world’s fastest growing destination.

Programme Highlights

From the exciting possibilities offered by space tourism to the more down-to-earth challenges of changing demographics, distribution, technology, aviation and responsible tourism, the conference programme addressed some of the biggest issues facing travel and tourism executives.

Speakers included Eric Anderson, chairman, Space Adventures; Robert Broadfoot, founder and managing director, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy; Amitabh Kant, managing director, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor; David Scowsill, president and CEO, WTTC; Min Fan, CEO, Ctrip; Azran Osman-Rani, CEO, Air Asia X; Ray Hammond, futurist and author.

Session moderators included CNN anchor Richard Quest and TIME magazine’s Liam Fitzpatrick.

The conference also offered delegates the chance to experience the phenomenal development that has taken place within China’s travel and tourism industry.

Click here to watch the PATA 60 commemmorative video, and click here to watch the coverage of the PATA 60th Anniversary and Conference.

See what the delegates have to say about the PATA 60th Anniversary and Conference here.

PRESENTATIONS

Plenary One: Building Tourism - Past. Present. Progressive.

Robert Broadfoot, founder and managing director, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd

Plenary Four: Growing with tourism

Geoffrey Lipman, director, greeneart.travel; managing director, Beyond Tourism

Breakout Session Presentations

Breakout session 2: Stefanos Fotiou, regional coordinator for Resource Efficiency, UNEP

Breakout session 3: Fritz Demopoulos, CEO and co-founder, Qunar.com

Breakout session 4: Clint Laurent, founder and managing director, Global Demographics Ltd

Breakout session 4: Joe Nguyen, vice president, comScore Inc