Kris Lim joins PATA Strategic Intelligence Centre team
Kris Lim has joined PATA as Associate Director – Strategic Intelligence Centre. He joins PATA from the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines in Kuala Lumpur where he was Assistant Manager of the AAPA Research and Statistics Department. Mr Lim is now based at PATA’s HQ in Bangkok. He is a graduate of Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.

Cassandra Wallace heads for Honolulu
Intrepid Travel’s Cassandra Wallace is the proud recipient of the 2009 EDIT scholarship awarded by the PATA Foundation. Mrs Wallace, a Destination Manager at Intrepid’s office in Fitzroy (Victoria), Australia since 2005, will attend a three-week course at the School of Travel Industry Management in Honolulu – part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The PATA Foundation scholarship is worth US$5,000.

“I am delighted and honoured to have been offered this opportunity and I am very excited to be a part of the EDIT programme this year. I am looking forward to the experience and to the benefit it will bring to my career with Intrepid Travel,” says Cassandra.

EDIT (Executive Development Institute for Tourism) seeks to develop the best and brightest leaders from the travel and tourism in both public and private sectors. The programme provides professionals with the opportunity to assume leadership roles in the development of sustainable tourism policies and practices as well as destination management strategies. PATA and the PATA Foundation, in partnership with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, have awarded annual scholarships since 1989.

Award winner is Pilar Laguana of PATA community in Guam
A 2009 PATA Award of Merit has been presented to Pilar Laguana, Marketing Manager for the Guam Visitors Bureau. In addition to her outstanding work in promoting Guam as an enticing and indeed exciting destination she has served PATA with great distinction. She has, over the past 28 years, served on the Chapter’s Marketing Committee, the PATA International Marketing Advisory Council and she has also served for many years as an executive committee member of the PATA Micronesia Chapter.

Mrs Laguana has received numerous awards during her long and distinguished career in travel and tourism and the GVB has also received two PATA Gold Awards as a direct result of her leadership, direction and achievements.