PATA

PATA stands for Pacific Asia Travel Association. It is an organisation which was founded as a no- profit as objectives were to develop, promote and facilitate travel to and among the many Pacific destinations. The concept of the association was to ensure maximum benefits from existing opportunities was to ensure maximum benefit from existing opportunities and to create fresh opportunities. this concept was founded by Lorrin Thurston, a leading a newspaper publisher of Honolulu. His concept of the association was the creation of fresh existing opportunities through multi-media publicity. This is the first conference was held in January 1952 in Honolulu with 44 founding members.
PATA as a non-profit organisation is set up with the objective of developing, promoting and facilitating travel business to and in the pecific area and in the south-east Asian region. It also covers the USA in the east, Pakistan in the west. Alaska in the North and Newzeland in the south.It primarily operates in the United States of America as it is the world's biggest travel market.

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