October 21, 2009, 18:09
This story proves that one doesn’t need a trillion dollars to mix it online with the big boys in your industry!
The ‘Responsible Tourism Guide to the Mekong’ at ExploreMekong.org/responsible has won the 2009 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in the website category. And it cost little more than US$1,000 to design and build.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement (ACE) Project developed the site as part of its technical assistance to ASEAN- and Mekong-region tourism cooperation and integration.
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December 18, 2008, 15:43
PATA has just asked me to shut down its Sustainable Tourism Wiki.
Here’s the note from the Association I was asked to send to all registered users:-
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October 30, 2008, 19:49
Tomorrow I leave the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in good spirits knowing that over five and a half years I have contributed to an organisation that does some outstanding work for travel and tourism in Asia Pacific.
In fact, I hope to stay engaged with PATA in some capacity in my new role as “knowledge management and communications specialist” with the ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement (ACE) Project; and hope that together we can do so much more.
One of my most recent achievements at PATA, and probably the one I’m most proud of (despite it being almost as easy as this blog to set up) is creating PATA’s Sustainable Tourism Wiki [which has since become The "Good Tourism" Wiki].
Having watched Wikipedia become one of the hottest URLs in cyberspace in recent years it became blindingly obvious to me that the wiki model was perfect for PATA and its efforts to deal with the huge subject area called “sustainable tourism“.
“Sustainable” and “responsible” are two words the Association has in its mission statement:-
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