‘ Twin Cities World Tourism Association’ to be formed at PATA Travel Mart 2018
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Bangkok – The new international organization – Twin Cities World Tourism Association (TCWTA) will be formally established during PATA Travel Mart 2018 (PTM 2018) in Langkawi, Malaysia in September this year.
Twin cities, also known as sister cities, are collaborations between two cities to foster friendship and understanding between different cultures and to form strategic international business links between them.
The Twin Cities World Tourism Association aims to support and increase tourism and travel between twin cities, support and increase the exchange of ideas and concepts related to tourism and travel between sister cities and enhance and strengthen relations between twin sisters through tourism and travel, according to a release issued by Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).
The founding President, Thomas Binder, Mayor of Gossau-Zurich in Switzerland, will formally announce the foundation of the Twin Cities World Tourism Association (TCWTA) at the Twin Cities World Tourism Forum during PTM 2018 to be held on September 12-14 ,2018.
The Board of the TCWTA will consist of 13 mayors from countries from all over the world while Hüseyin Baraner, being the only non-mayor member, will be appointed as its General Secretary.
This Board will meet once a year in the city of the president to exchange ideas, concepts, and plans. A meeting of the Board will also be held in Zürich or Gossau at a later date in order to sign the charter of the Twin Cities World Tourism Association.
TCWTA also plans to publish a ‘ Twin Cities Almanac ‘ to be presented at ITB Berlin, which will include reports on the tourism and travel activities of twin cities, interviews with mayors of twin cities and the tourism development of twin cities.
June 18 ,2018
