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Asian travel
PATA chooses Thailand to host its 2008 summit, probably in April
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) will host its annual 2008 summit in Thailand with more than 500 delegates from 40 country members. Tourism Authority of Thailand governor Phornsiri Manoharn said yesterday that the summit would last for three days, tentatively scheduled for April next year. - The Nation. n hemaraj/it-techno Value-added services for Japanese Hemaraj Land and Development, a major developer of industrial estates, utilities and property, has signed a primary agreement with IT-Techno Park for value-added services targeted at Japanese customers operating in Hemaraj industrial estates. IT-Techno Park is a service provider with expertise in transportation, catering, recruitment, legal and administrative office support with a focus on law, taxation and accounting. It specialises in serving the needs of Japanese clients. It will join Hemaraj's growing team of value-added service suppliers who provide a multitude of services for Hemaraj clients. - The Nation. n aviation sector ABX Air to fly cargo for All Nippon US-based ABX Air reported yesterday that it had entered into an ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) agreement to operate two 767-200 aircraft for All Nippon Airways (ANA). The two-year agreement, with an option for annual renewals, begins on May 15. It will support ANA's cargo operations throughout the Asian market, including Japan, China and Thailand. The watershed agreement marks the first time the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau has approved a foreign carrier to conduct cargo aircraft operations on behalf of a Japanese airline. - The Nation. n regional flights Asean to liberalise civil aviation Asean will liberalise civil aviation among its 10 member countries, but the ruling to be imposed next year applies only in their respective capitals, an Indonesian official has said. "With the liberalisation, airliners from member countries can carry as many passengers as they can," director of civil aviation Tri Sunoko was quoted yesterday by news website Detikcom as saying. He said that before the new ruling was imposed, airliners from Singapore could carry up to 24,000 passengers a week from Jakarta, while the quota for Indonesian airliners was limited to 27,000 passengers a week from Singapore. Sunoko said member countries not yet prepared for the liberalisation would be given until 2015 to ratify the new ruling.
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