Asia and the Pacific continued as a hot spot for international tourism in 2012, attracting what’s expected to be in far more than 350 million international visitor arrivals, expanding its collective inbound count by greater than 5% and generating greater than 18 million additional foreign visits, year-on-year. It’s in keeping with preliminary results released today by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). This is the third consecutive year during which foreign arrivals growth has remained positive for the region. Of the 40 separate destinations covered, only 5 reported contractions for the year. Most of these were relatively marginal for the region as a complete. The sole exception was China, which, with a contraction in growth of two.2%, is estimated to have lost around 3 million international arrivals (foreign and compatriot)...
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Located alongside, the Digital Innovation Asia events are deliberately timed to guide into the PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association) Annual Summit on April 25-28, so that they can attract around 400 of probably the most senior travel and tourism executives. PATA has partnered with E-Tourism Asia the producer of Digital Innovation Asia (DIA) to stage digital events, which come with the Digital Innovation Asia Awards, Blogger Match-Up Asia, Speak-Up Asia, and the China Boot Camp. Kicking off Digital Innovation Asia (DIA) on April 23, hosted by ChinaTravelTrends.com, the China Boot Camp helps companies know the way to succeed in and fix with affluent and complex Chinese consumers. With China being the fastest growing source marketplace for many destinations in Asia and around the globe, and the complex social media and...
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