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Nobel Prize winner to front PATA Challenge
BANGKOK – The world’s travel and tourism industry leaders can now register to participate in the historic “PATA CEO Challenge 2008: Confronting Climate Change” in Bangkok on April 29-30.
The PATA CEO Challenge 2008 will bring Asia Pacific travel and tourism industry leaders together under one roof for the first time to confront climate change
The conference venue will be the new Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld in downtown Bangkok.
Keynote speaker at the event will be 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Joining Dr Pachauri will be destination strategist Anna Pollock and global futurist Rohit Talwar.
PATA will shortly announce additional keynote speakers and other top names from the international travel and tourism industry.
The PATA CEO Challenge 2008 website (www.ceochallenge.PATA.org) is now live and visitors to the site are asked to leave their thoughts and ideas in response to the news and opinion blogs.
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