{"id":19972,"date":"2011-03-28T05:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T21:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=19972"},"modified":"2011-03-28T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T21:30:41","slug":"pata-to-hold-60th-anniversary-conference-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2011\/03\/28\/19972\/","title":{"rendered":"PATA To Hold 60th Anniversary Conference In Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel industry leaders from the Asia Pacific region and beyond will meet at the Pacific Asia Travel Association's 60th Anniversary and Conference, which will be held in Beijing on April 9-12, 2011 at the China World Hotel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the meeting, David Scowsill, the president and CEO of the World Travel and Tourism Council congratulated PATA on reaching its 60th anniversary saying that in the 60-years since it was founded in Hawaii, PATA has helped to put the region on the global tourism map &#8212; not just as a destination but also as a rapidly growing source of tourism business for destinations around the world.\u2028\u2028With membership representing all sectors of the industry &#8212; from large corporations to SMEs in transport, hospitality and the travel trade, together with governments &#8212; Scowsill said that PATA has become a benchmark of success for public-private sector partnerships.\u2028<\/p>\n<p>Representing two of the world's BRIC nations and more than half of the \"Next-Eleven\", he said the Asia Pacific region is expected to take the lead in contributing to travel and tourism growth in the years ahead with a forecast growth of 4.3% per year over the coming decade. I look forward to continued close collaboration between our two organizations in the future.\u2028\u2028With the theme \"Building Tourism: Past. Present. Progressive\", the conference is the focal point of PATA's year-long campaign of 60th anniversary events and activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel industry leaders from the Asia Pacific region and beyond will meet at the Pacific Asia Travel Association's 60th Anniversary and Conference, which will be held in Beijing on April 9-12, 2011 at the China World Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12759,13454,13455,8383,12782],"class_list":["post-19972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-beijing","tag-bric","tag-china-world-hotel","tag-pata","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}