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Let us begin this year with new hope and write new stories of success. PATA wishes everyone happiness and prosperity in the Year of the Dog. HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🎉 
让我们充满希望地迎接狗年的到来。PATA祝大家狗年幸福美满,一帆风顺。 春节快乐!
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The Connected Visitor Economy Bulletin - 2nd edition 2018

 

Explore how blockchain technology can potentially revolutionise money flow in the travel industry and allow faster, cheaper and more effective financial transactions between various stakeholders with Travelkoin.
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The CEO Blog: Beyond Zeros and Ones – my fascination with AI (part 2)

 

The majority of technology that we all of use on a daily basis are mere lines of codes, with most machines programmed to do specific tasks and follow these instructions without failure regardless of the implications of its actions.
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Jungle safari operators demand regulations
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PATA SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Jungle safari operators are demanding regulations with minimum conditions to be fulfilled for using elephants for tourism and wildlife conservation in Nepal.
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PATA BUILDS YOUR INSIGHTS
Key insights from PATAmPOWER

Strong visitor arrivals to Nepal in 2017


 
Nepal experienced a record high of 940,218 international visitor arrivals in 2017, a growth of 24.9 percent compared to 2016. This was primarily boosted by strong increases in arrivals from USA (47.5%) and Thailand (46.5%). The destination also saw an increase of arrivals from other key source markets that posted significant growth during this period, such as Korea (ROK) (36.3%), India (36.0%) and Australia (30.8%). Since 2014, Nepal has seen solid growth of around six percent annually, led in percentage growth terms by Germany (18.4%) and USA (16.7%). .

Acquire more data and insights on international visitor arrivals at mPOWER.pata.org.
PATA Publication

COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute Market Report Autumn 2017 is now available 



The COTRI Market Report provides expert insights into the development of China’s outbound tourism market by offering qualitative analysis, numbers and information plus several special topics in each issue.

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WELCOME NEW PATA MEMBERS
Chengdu Twin Win International Travel Service

Based in Chengdu, Sichuan province of China, Chengdu Twin Win International Travel Service organize tours in Sichuan province for both domestic and foreign customer. We mainly operate hiking, cycling, mountain-climbing and sightseeing tours. Visit www.sichuanadventure.com for more details.
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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS FROM PATA MEMBERS

Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts launches ‘Cinnamon Island Weddings’, a bespoke luxury wedding service for destination weddings in Sri Lanka

 
As part of the campaign, Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts has launched a contest with Sri Lankan Airlines wherein the winning couple will get an all expense paid dream wedding for 50 people including the couple and their friends and family in Sri Lanka organized by Cinnamon Island Weddings. Read more.

Thailand's Kai Chon ice sculpture won International Snow Sculpture Contest in Japan


One highlight of the Sapporo Snow Festival is the International Snow Sculpture Contest, first held in 1974. TAT has supported the participation of a Thai ice carving team since 1991. The Thai team won the contest four times in 2000, 2008-2010; the first country to have won it for three consecutive years. Read more.
The 2018 International Toilet Tourism Awards now open

 
After many years analysing tourism trends, the awards’ creators and owners, MyTravelresearch.com, aim to show tourism destinations that clean, creative, quirky public toilets go a long way to boosting a destination’s image and generating tourism dollars. People stop to spend a penny and end up spending more. Read more.
 
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