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Featured Members of the Week
Members since 2020s✨
Event Management
Exhibition Group Limited
Since 2020s
A HKSAR-based event management firm specialising in planning and managing world-class public exhibitions, conventions and tradeshows across a wide range of industries.
Technology
HotelPlanner
Since 2020s
Leveraging proprietary AI/machine learning capacities, HotelPlanner provides individual, group, and corporate travel bookings, with specialisation in unique "Closed User Group" discount rates.
DMC
Elmakkan for Travel and Tours (88 Destinations)
Since 2020s
88 Destinations is an inbound tour operator and DMC based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia under the EL Makkan brand specialising in unique travel experiences driven by people and culture.
DMC
AMH Tourism
Since 2020s
AMH Tourism, part of the AMH group, is a B2B company based in Dubai that provides various services to inbound UAE agents including visa, transfer, hotel & air bookings, attractions, and more.
Travel Management
CRYSTAL HOLIDAYS
Since 2020s
Crystal Holidays, a subsidiary of CRH Group, created an All-In-One smart tourism ecosystem in travel services, cruise & yachts, resort investment, and hotel management.
Hospitality
FUNYARD Hotels and Resorts
Since 2020s
Funyard, among the world's top 30 hospitality groups, partners with Hilton, Accor, and Minor to manage 400+ hotels in China.
Technology
RISKLAYER GmbH
Since 2020s
By harnessing the power of technology and cultivating partnerships, Risklayer develops resiliency and sustainability strategies and solutions for the tourism sector.
Consultancy
Global Success Learning Academy
Since 2020s
With expertise in high-impact learning, GSLA works with organisations and talents to improve their leadership effectiveness, business performance, and productivity.
Latest PATA Blog Posts
PATA Reaching Out to Tourism’s Forgotten People - The Informal Workers
With the current global situation having a severe impact on the tourism sector, PATA has been reaching out to people who work directly and indirectly in this sector. This is particularly on the informal workers who are often ignored in the tourism supply chain. Find out more about the informal workers here and how they are affected.
Ultimate Guide to Tourism Destination Resilience Certification
The only guide you will need to understand how to start your own Tourism Destination Resilience journey.
Resilience Leads COVID-19 Recovery
Resilience is not only a strategy for recovery, but a necessary process to ultimately achieve sustainable tourism development. What is resilience and why does tourism destinations need it? This blog explains it all.
COVID-19 Impacts on the Thai Tourism Supply Chain
This article presents research carried out between December 2020 and March 2021 by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and focusright, a Swiss consultancy that works with companies to embed responsible business practices throughout their supply chains. Supported by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Switzerland, the project examined the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on informal workers in the Thai tourism value chain.
PATA, TTG Round Up Industry Experts to Understand Future of Travel in Special Series
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and TTG Asia Media are collaborating on a series of six articles that will look into the travel and tourism industry’s future, and provide guidance to stakeholders on how a responsible, meaningful and sustainable development could be achieved.
PATA Conducts “The Future of Tourism” Interview Series to Provide COVID-19 Recovery Insights
PATA explores “The Future of Tourism” in a series of interviews through multiple, interrelated sustainability challenges that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis; aiming to provide advocacy, research and publications to provide insights on the future of sustainable tourism.
A Call to Rebuild a More Robust and Responsible Travel and Tourism Industry
While the road to recovery will be long and arduous, I am confident we will eventually travel again. To get there, beyond just close cooperation between the public and private sectors, we will need to be innovative, creative, and resourceful. If we do that, I am sure that we will rebuild a more robust and more responsible travel and tourism industry.
The Missing Blueprint
We have now reached a phase where everyone is realising that a vaccine may be months if not years away and we must learn to adapt to what it has come to be referred to as the “new normal”.