SELENA TRAVEL TAKES PART IN THE PATA TRAVEL MART 2006
29th PATA Travel Mart 2006, Hong Kong, 12-15 Sept.

Our managing director Ms. Nyamsuren G. and sales manager Ms. Zolzaya O. successfully presented the company and the country at the 29th PATA Travel Mart 2006 at Asia World-Expo center in Hong Kong on 12-15 Sep.
PATA Travel Mart is the premier travel mart in the Asia Pacific region and Selena Travel was the first Mongolian company to ever take part in it. PATA President and CEO Mr. Peter de Jong confirmed the official delegate numbers for PTM06. A total of 417 buyers (11% more than PTM05) representing 352 organizations from 54 global source markets have arrived at Hong Kong's Asia World-Expo for PTM06.
Our company representatives proved that Mongolia is an emerging travel destination of Asia Pacific and showed how Mongolian tourism has been developed and how well qualified Mongolian tourism professionals are.
PATA 2006-2007 Chairman Mr. Richard Beere said: "Today, as we open the doors on PATA Travel Mart 2006 in Hong Kong, I think we can all say 'Wow!'. "In terms of destinations and industry sectors covered, PTM is now the biggest travel trade show in Asia Pacific. "In fact, we believe the Mart has absolutely regained its status as the region's best travel contracting and networking show.
"Over the past three years, the Mart has continued to set new records for increasing levels of buyers, sellers and destinations represented."
Helping to drive this growth is the strong performance of Asia Pacific travel and tourism, which expanded by +7.6% international visitor arrivals (IVAs) in 2005. IVAs into and within Asia Pacific totaled 329.7 million in 2005, according to 'PATA Annual Statistical Report 2005 Summary & Extracts', which was launched today at the Mart.

Ms NYAMA, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SELENA TRAVEL
PARTICIPATED THE 55th PATA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

"Changing Lifestyles - New Opportunities"
April 23-27, 2006, Pattaya, Thailand

The theme of the 55th PATA Annual Conference, "Changing Lifestyles - New Opportunities", is designed to focus on how travel and tourism can take advantage of the opportunities posed by fast-changing lifestyles and values. These include changing demographics, health and wellness, travel by the young, the ageing, and female travelers, technological issues, the low-cost airline phenomenon, and growth in short city-break holidays.
But wider forces of change, although not on the immediate agenda, are also impacting the industry. At the moment, these are classified as threats, but within them lie the seeds of opportunities that could set the stage for travel and tourism to become a real force for peace, a self-proclaimed adage that it has long preached but seldom practiced.

But wider forces of change, although not on the immediate agenda, are also impacting the industry. At the moment, these are classified as threats, but within them lie the seeds of opportunities that could set the stage for travel and tourism to become a real force for peace, a self-proclaimed adage that it has long preached but seldom practiced.

The total number of delegates registered at 55th Conference was 1141 people.
Ms.Nyamsuren G, managing director of Selena Travel LLC participated at this conference, alone from Mongolia and represented her country and the company.
She also participated in the 2006 PATA Education and Training Forum on April 22, conjunction with PAC 06 in Pattaya. This one day Forum is meant to foster an open dialogue and exchange of ideas between practitioners and and academics on critical success factors for travel and tourism, training and education in Asia Pacific's travel and tourism industry.

ZOLA, SALES MANAGER OF SELENA TRAVEL PRESENTS
THE COMPANY IN THE EATOF 2005

Ms. Zola, sales manager of Selena Travel took part in the annual East Asian Inter-Regional Tourism Forum in Jilin, China from 2-4 September 2005 upon the invitation of the governor of Tuv province of Mongolia. She presented the company and the tourism industry of Mongolia in the forum. East Asia Inter-regional Tourism Forum is a voluntary, self-financing association; the first type of international cooperation body in East Asia among provincial governments for tourism promotion, bringing together provinces and regions from throughout East Asia that was founded in Gangwon Province, Korea in 1999. The nine founding EATOF members are Cebu Province (Philippine); Chiang Mai Province (Thailand); Gangwon Province (Korea); Jilin Province (China); Primorsky Territory (Russia); Sarawak Province (Malaysia); Tottori Prefecture (Japan); Tuv Province (Mongolia); and Yogyakarta Special Province (Indonesia). These provinces are represented by senior delegations of academics, tourism officials, and business people led by governors or vice-governors at the annual EATOF meeting whose location is rotated among the members every year. There is a collective commitment to encourage further growth of EATOF and its related activities; implementation of a variety of bilateral agreements; and to broaden the future scope of inter-regional cooperation in the fields of tourism, culture, arts and sports.

It is said that "tourism" will be one of the most important strategic industries in the 21st Century. With the development of the aerospace and telecommunication industries, the number of tourists will drastically increase in the new century.

The present is a time when North East Asian provincial governments should make tourism promotion strategies, developing their own characteristics and make concerted effort instead of individual effort in order to survive in the competitive world tourism market. The demand for such inter-regional cooperation to maximize joint tourism promotion will be further escalated with the advent of new millennium. While utilizing regional airports as travel hubs linking inter-regional tour programs with easy connections, East Asia in the 21st Century will witness a rapid expansion in the inter-regional tourism.
The cooperation of inter-regional tourism in East Asia will be able to complement the limits of individual regions by topological as well as cultural characteristics, thus giving opportunities and conditions to promote tourism in the region as a whole.