The ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2012 travex will welcome over 1,400 delegates to the newly constructed Golden Kawanua Exhibition Hall in Manado, Indonesia from January 13-15.
Close to 1,000 exhibitors, 390 buyers and more than 100 media representatives are scheduled to participate in the event. The exhibitor delegation will feature some 438 booths represented by 390 companies and properties across the 10 ASEAN countries. Indonesia and Thailand form the two largest national contingents with 112 and 92 exhibition booths respectively. Corporate exhibitors are also participating in a big way, contributing some 65 exhibition booths.
ATF 2012 will see buyer participation from four new countries: Bulgaria, Egypt, Kuwait and New Zealand. Forty-eight per cent of buyers will hail from Asia-Pacific, followed by 37.6 per cent from Europe. Meanwhile, this year’s ASEAN Tourism Conference (ATC), themed ‘ASEAN Goes Green’, will see speakers from the industry share the latest insights on ASEAN’s efforts towards sustainable and eco-conscious tourism.
The keynote speaker at ATC 2012 will be Taleb D. Rifai, secretary general of UNWTO, while other presenters include Dr. Andy Nazarechuk, president of Asia-Pacific CHRIE; Martin Craigs, CEO of PATA; Tatsuro Nakamura, senior executive director of the board of JATA; and Jim Boyles, general manager of Melia, Bali.
-TTG Asia.
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