Golden Kawanua Exhibition Hall debuts vis-a-vis ATF

The newly constructed Golden Kawanua Exhibition Hall in Manado, Indonesia made its debut in the meetings and conventions industry with the annual travel mart, ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF). The host countries, Indonesia and Thailand, had the largest number of exhibitors with each of them taking up 112 and 92 exhibition booths respectively. ATF Travex this year had four new countries participating; Bulgaria, Egypt, Kuwait and New Zealand were part of this mart as buyers.

Speakers include Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of UNWTO, Dr. Andy Nazarechuk, President of Asia-Pacific CHRIE, Martin Craigs, Chief Executive of PATA, Tatsuro Nakamura, Senior Executive Director of the Board of JATA and Jim Boyles, General Manager of Melia Hotel, Bali.