PATA Hub City Forum - Bangkok

January 30, 2012

Bangkok, Thailand

OVERVIEW

PATA, together with the PATA Thailand Chapter, invites you to the PATA HUB CITY FORUM - BANGKOK which  will be held on Monday 30^th January, from 12pm to 4pm at the Landmark Bangkok, Ballroom (7th floor). Please mark your diary now.

                                

The theme will be 2012: NAVIGATING THE HEADWINDS.

 

It will be of interest to anyone who is involved in travel and tourism in Thailand, the Greater Mekong Subregional destinations, who are looking at maximizing the developments in transportation, manpower, hospitality and capacity building, as well as discuss future trends.

 

Senior executives from organisations such as IATA, Visa, Asian Development Bank, Tourism Authority of Thailand, Airports of Thailand (AOT), Anatara Hotels, Agoda.com, and Accor are expected to be in attendance.

 

 

Luncheon: 12noon - 2pm

Thai Airways International President Piyasvasti Amranand 20-minute talk/presentation on the theme ‘2012: Navigating the Headwinds’.

 

Followed by a 15-minute speech by Tourism Authority of Thailand Governor Suraphon Svestasreni on ‘Thai Tourism Lesson Learnt, Challenges Ahead’, to open the afternoon forum session.

 

Forum: 2pm – 4pm with networking break

 

Speakers:

Steven Schipani, Social Sector Specialist, Asian Development Bank

Daw Kyi Kyi Aye, Tourism Consultant, Myanmar Tourism Board

Willem Niemeijer, CEO, Khiri Travel

Damien Pfirsch, Director - Electronic Distribution, Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas

 

Panellists:

Mason Florence, Executive Director, Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office

Peter Semone, Chief Technical Advisor, Lao National Institute of Tourism and Hospitality

Peter Meacock, Managing Director, LT Project Management

 

View programme here.

 

Moderators: Sessions to be moderated by Joe Cummings (former Lonely Planet editor and Bangkok Post editor).

 

Media: Invited media include CNN, BBC, Channel News Asia, Time/ Fortune, IHT, Reuters, Associated Press, AFP, Wall Street Journal, Straits Times, TTG Asia, etc.

 

Attendees: Apart from organisations indicated above, attendees will also be drawn from membership of PATA Thailand Chapter, SKAL Bangkok, the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce of Thailand, and members of tourism-related industries as well as suppliers. 120 expected.

 

Exclusive evening function: (7-9pm) A small number of dignitaries and VIP members of PATA International will be invited to a dinner in the aviation-themed Paribatra Restaurant of The Peninsula Hotel to commemorate the 101^st anniversary of the first airplane flight in Bangkok, January 1911. To be hosted by PATA CEO, Martin Craigs.

REGISTER NOW! Call, fax or e-mail the PATA Thailand Chapter Secretariat  at +66 2722 7195, secretariat@pata-thailand.org no later than midday on Friday, January 27, 2012.

Registration fee for PATA International and PATA Thailand Chapter members is THB700 per person, THB850 for non-members, and THB500 for students.