Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), which is celebrating its 60th year, will host 60th Anniversary and Conference from April 9 to 12, 2011 at the China World Hotel, Beijing. The programme will focus on some of the biggest issues facing travel and tourism executives. High profile speakers from within and outside the industry will discuss topics including distribution challenges, changing demographics, responsible tourism, aviation and new technology.
According to the company release, the conference will also recall the contribution PATA has made over the past six decades, as well as look …

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August 5, 2010: TravelDaily (www.traveldaily.cn), China’s leading online publisher and event organizer with emphasis on the distribution, marketing and technology trends in the travel and tourism industries, today announced that it has welcomed Amadeus as a diamond sponsor for the 2010 China Travel Distribution Summit, to be held in Beijing on September 15-16.
Amadeus, a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, has proven its distribution technology can maximize revenues and increase efficiency for all sectors of the travel industry in Asia, including …

China is leading the global tourism industry, having done what few other countries -including developed Western nations – have not:  acknowledge the effects that the travel and tourism industry have on the economy.
China has declared tourism to be “a strategic pillar of its economic reform,” said Jean-Claude Baumgarten, president of London-based World Travel and Tourism Council, at the WTTC’s 10th annual summit Wednesday in Beijing.
Last November, the State Council approved policies that will promote the industry under the “Guidelines to Accelerate the Development of the Tourism Industry.”
The world’s leaders in …

China’s 600-year-old Forbidden City is renovating its website in a move to improve its offerings of Chinese culture, said the information chief of the Palace Museum Wednesday.
The new website will launch during the National Day Festival in early October, said Hu Chui, head of the museum’s information department.
“It will give visitors richer and easier access to the imperial city, and the ancient building complex with as many as 8,707 rooms and 1.5 million artistic articles,” said Hu, who is leading a team of 60 to boost the museum’s digital display.
The …