Asia-Pacific’s leading Corporate Travel conference and exhibition for the region’s industry professionals has sealed in sponsorship from big name hospitality and travel technology brands, eager to leverage on the opportunity to exclusively engage the 150 quality attending corporate travel buyers.CTW Asia-Pacific’s track record of delivering this key buying segment cements Oakwood Worldwide (APAC) acknowledgement of CTW Asia-Pacific as a powerful platform that provides outreach to the corporate segment.

The World Indigenous Tourism Alliance (WINTA) and the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) have agreed to develop plans and programs to give practical expression, through tourism, to Indigenous rights. Guiding principles will be taken from the relevant portions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

…changes needed: said the Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou. The Daily News Egypt published yesterday a very interesting statement from the Minister about the Egypt Tourism. It seems to many experts in the world that the Minister has received a ” wake up call”! In all the month before he always told the world:” Nothing happend in my country. The problems are coming from the foreigner!” Now he changed ! Now his own staff is to old – he said ?! We think he should not forget his own age!

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MCTO) are jointly promoting destinations linking Thailand’s bordering provinces to three countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), including Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Thawatchai Arunyik, TAT Governor said, “TAT has been playing a key role in building, promoting and facilitating the tourism industry of the GMS for nearly three decades, and this long-term effort is now starting to bear fruit.”

For the 11th year running, Thailand has won “the most popular tourist destination in Asia” award conferred by the German travel industry group Go Asia. Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Mr. Thawatchai Arunyik received the award on behalf of the Thai tourism industry at a ceremony organised during ITB Berlin.

REGULATORY APPROVALS CONFIRMED FOR AIR SERBIA AGREEMENT. Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, confirmed today that requisite government and regulatory approvals, consent and permissions sanctioning the strategic partnership between Air Serbia and Etihad Airways, have now been obtained.