The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to bring back the PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart 2011 (AT&RTCM) to Pokhara, Nepal. The AT&RTCM will take place at the Fulbari Resort and Spa, February 7-11, 2011.
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German flag carrier Lufthansa has announced that it will increase the frequency of its Airbus A380 flights on the Beijing to Frankfurt route to three a week from the previous once a week. Starting on November 20, 2010 flights using Airbus A380 aircraft from Frankfurt to Beijing will be operated on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, while return flights will leave Beijing on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.

U.S.-based Walt Disney has signed the formal agreement with Shanghai Shendi Group Corporation — a company backed by the Shanghai municipal government — to jointly develop a Disneyland theme park in the country’s financial hub. The signing of the agreement comes a week after Shanghai closed its six-month long World Expo and marks the start of the construction on the theme park.

Alexander started his career in the hotel industry over thirty years ago in five-star hotels working for Accor, Wyndham Hotel Group, Howard Johnson International (China), New World Hotels, Starwood, Swissotel, and Regal Hotels International; he has worked in the UK, France, the USA, and extensively in Asia. Prior to joining the Regal Shanghai East Asia Hotel Alexander was based in Hong Kong with Regal Hotels International and before that opened the Regal Jinfeng Hotel, Pudong, Shanghai.

22 professionals within the international meetings industry came together to complete the first ever IMEX Challenge in Poland in September. The group of industry volunteers declared the three-day experience building a new playground and landscaped garden for a foster family in Poland a “huge and exhilarating success.”