The announcement of Team Bahrain as a premier sponsor has added weight to the PATA Routes
Tourism & Air Services (TAS) Summit's claim to be one of the most important tourism events of
the year. Co-located with World Routes and opening on Sunday, 13th September at the New
China International Exhibition Centre, the summit is designed to help proactive tourism
authorities move up the aviation supply chain and assist their airports in the promotion of their
destination directly to the carriers.

With an impressive list of speakers and topics, the event will focus on the relationship between
national tourism offices, airlines and airports and address many topical issues including how
tourism authorities can impact on the route development process, what information destination
marketers need to give airlines and what contribution air services can make in destination
recovery.

"The more proactive tourism authorities are extremely busy at present - as evidenced by the 25
million USD package for funding new route development announced by Cyprus Tourism through
our online Route Exchange Service," commented Gerard Brown, Tourism Development Director
at Routes. "TAS will give attendees an ideal opportunity to work with airports and carriers to
mitigate the drop in passenger numbers at this difficult time and position themselves for the
future."

Speakers at the event will include John Koldowski, PATA; Shaun Monnery, Astraeus Airlines;
Mark Gill, S. Australian Tourism; Alfredo Gonzalez, Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and
Visitors Bureau; Anita Mehra Homayoun, Dubai International Airport; Scott Laurence, JetBlue;
Lee Lipton, Southwest Airlines; Mr. Azizan Noordin, Tourism Malaysia; Larry Johnson, Louis
Armstrong New Orleans International Airport; Tony Everitt, South Pacific Tourism Organisation.
Latest registered organisations include Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), Las Vegas
Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Sofia Airport
EAD, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport - Finavia, Tourism Western Australia, Hong Kong Airlines Co. Ltd,
Perpignan Airport, Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau, InterVISTAS, San Francisco
International Airport, Cook Islands Tourism, Papua New Guinea Tourism and ANA Aeroportos
Lisboa.

All TAS delegates will have full access to the Routes Networking Village and also complimentary
access to Routes' full informal networking schedule. In addition TAS delegates have the option
of securing pre-arranged meetings with the airline network planners. Organisations sending
multiple delegations will enjoy special discounts.