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(From left) Jetwing Hotels
Sri Lanka's Hiran Cooray; Tourism Vancouver's Stephen Pearce; Lao National
Institute of Tourism and Hospitality's Peter Semone; PATA's Pairoj
Kiatthunsamai; Capilano University's Chris Bottrill; TripAdvisor's Sarah
Mathews; Sanctuary Resorts' Andrew Jones; Centara Hotels & Resorts' Ben
Montgomery; Guam Visitors Bureau's Jon Nathan Denight; Macao Government Tourism
Office's Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes; PATA's Mario Hardy; Malaysia Airports
Holdings' Mohamed Sallauddin Mat Sah; and Hong Kong Tourism Board's Anthony Lau
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Sarah Mathews, TripAdvisor’s head of
destination marketing Asia-Pacific, has been elected as chairperson of PATA
executive board at the PATA Annual Summit in Negombo, Sri Lanka last week.
Elected vice chairperson in May 2016, the
Hong Kong-based Matthews replaces Andrew Jones who remains a member of the
board as its past chairman.
PATA also elected five new members to its
executive board – Chris Bottrill, dean at the Faculty of Global and Community
Studies, School of Tourism Management, Capilano University; Hiran Cooray,
chairman, Jetwing Hotels; Jon Nathan Denight, president and CEO, Guam Visitors
Bureau; Mohamed Sallauddin Mat Sah, general manager marketing, Malaysia
Airports Holdings; and Peter Semone, senior advisor, Lao National Institute of
Tourism and Hospitality.
Other executive board members include Stephen
Pearce, vice president marketing, Tourism Vancouver; Maria Helena de Senna
Fernandes, director, Macao Government Tourism Office; Pilar Laguaña,
chairperson, PATA Micronesia Chapter; and Ben Montgomery, director of business
relations management, Centara Hotels & Resorts.
Bottrill was elected as the new vice
chairperson, while Pearce remains the board’s secretary/treasurer.
Anthony Lau, executive director, Hong Kong
Tourism Board; Soon-Hwa Wong, regional director – Asia-Pacific, Blacklane; and
Faeez Fadhlillah, CEO and co-founder of Tripfez, have also been appointed to
the executive board as non-voting members.
The recent summit also saw the announcement
of Langkawi as the host of the 2018 PATA Travel Mart (PTM).
Hosted by Tourism Malaysia and Langkawi
Development Authority, the mart will take place at the Mahsuri International
Exhibition Centre, the island’s largest convention venue.
Azizan Noordin, CEO of
Langkawi Development Authority, who received his Life Membership Award at the
summit, said that PTM will "further promote Langkawi as an international
resort island destination".
-TTG Asia.
www.malaysia.travel
www.lada.gov.my
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