United Federation of Travel Agents’ Association, UFTAA Congress Kuala Lumpur 2013.
Global Travel & Tourism Conference
Re-modelling the Travel & Tourism Industry e-Now!

Sessions:

Session 1 : The Changes in the Supply Chain and the Effect to the Travel & Tourism Industry

Speakers

i) Duncan Bureau
Senior Vice President
Global Sales & Distribution

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ii) Robert Bailey
President and CEO
Abacus International Pte Ltd

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Session 2 : Being Relevant in the New ‘E-Economy’

Speakers

i) Greg Duffell

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ii) K.Thangavelu

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Session 3 : Opportunity & Threat in the New ‘E-Market’

Speakers

i) Ivy Chee
Regional Director
East Asia

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ii) Sajith Sivanandan

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Session 4 : Sustaining the Travel Industry & the Environment

Speaker

i) Steve Noakes

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UFTAA CONGRES 19 Apr, 2013  Download the Presentation

Session 5 : Air Forum by APJC 

Speaker

i) Brian Barrow
UFTAA

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Please, find attached tentative Rhododendron Festival program (11-13 May) for your kind information and reference. Kindly be informed that the detail of the program including timing will be provided in due course of time.

Click here to download -> Tentative rhododendron festival program

This is to kindly inform that you can view if you are a registered postal ballot voter for the National Assembly election at  http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/Pb_List. If your VPIC/ CID number is registered kindly fill the attached Postal Ballot application form (either in English or Dzongkha), scan and send a copy by email to your respective Returning Officer of your Demkhong/ Dzongkhag by 8th May 2013. Kindly visit http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/?p=448 for detail notification and email ID of respective Returning Officers. Your Returning Officer will then send Postal Ballot to registered Postal Voters. For any enquiry and further assistance please call respective Returning Officer or visit Election Commission website www.election-bhutan.org.bt.

Click here to download -> Application Postal Ballot

Please find attached Domestic Flight schedule effective 31st March to 27th October 2013.

Please note in the month of April, there will not be any domestic flight operations on 2nd April and 27th April.

Click here –  Domestic Flight -31 Mar-27  Oct 2013

Druk Air has issued Balance Confirmation Letters for the tour operators for the year ending 31st December 2012. This is regarding your company’s balance in Druk Air’s books of accounts as of 31.12.2012 reference to your business transaction with Druk Air for the calendar year 2012. You are kindly requested to collect the Balance Confirmation Letter from ABTO Office for validation of the balance and confirming by signing and submitting to Druk Air office (To be clear on balance amount with Druk Air and also eligible commission for the year 2012).

Confirmation has to be given to Druk Air by 15th February 2013.

All those who have transactions with Druk Air in the year 2012 are requested to collect the balance confirmation letter from ABTO Office during office time.

Druk Air has increased the domestic flight frequency on basis of ATR aircraft availability also in light of Finance Ministry circular on eligibility of P5 level civil servants availing domestic air services on official tours. As such please find attached updated and revised Domestic Winter Schedule effective 01 February – 30th March 2013.

Domestic winter schedule eff 01Feb- 30Mar 2013 as of 24Jan13

The Association upon request made to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB), they have provided us with the Postal Ballot format for registration of tourism personnel who would not be able to go to the polling station during the poll day due to their engagement on tourists duty. The polling day is not yet confirmed, however registration process as postal voters is due by 25th January 2013.

Therefore, those personnel (Tour Operators, Permanent Guides under your company, Drivers under your company, Trekking and company staff engaged on duty) opting for postal ballot are kindly requested to fill in the attached form and submit to ABTO Office with the list by replying to this email by 3.30 PM on 25th January 2013. The list will be compiled and officially communicated to ECB by ABTO.

You can download the form here.