ASEAN goes green

The newly constructed Golden Kawanua Exhibition Hall, venue for ATF 2012 TRAVEX, will welcome over 1,400 delegates this week to negotiate contracts to draw more tourists to ASEAN’s destinations.

Pre-TRAVEX registration statistics indicate that close to 1,000 exhibitors, 390 buyers and more than 100 media delegates will fill the exhibition venue during the event. Representing travel trade and tourism organisations, worldwide, delegates  will conduct business transactions during the 13 to 15 January trade mart.

The event continues to draw the attention of international media as well. This year, media from 36 countries worldwide including first-time participants Bahrain and Indonesia.

The learning component of the event, ASEAN Tourism Conference (ATC), continues with this year’s theme, ‘ASEAN Goes Green’. To be held on 13th January from 0900 to 1200, the conference will feature speakers from the industry. They are:

Keynote Speaker: Taleb D. Rifai, secretary general of UNWTO

Speakers

• Andy Nazarechuk, President of Asia-Pacific CHRIE

• Martin Craigs, CEO of PATA

• Tatsuro Nakamura, Senior Executive Director of the Board of JATA

• Jim Boyles, GM of Melia, Bali

Source - ttrweekly