11 May 10 (TravMedia.com): Tourism Australia in partnership with TravMedia has again created a dedicated online news room for the 2010 Australian Tourism Exchange allowing all Australian sellers attending the event to supply their news direct to the media.

The TravMedia ATE10 news room - http://www.travmedia.com/ate2010 has been developed as part of Tourism Australia’s commitment to delivering more sustainable events.

This system has proven to be a more effective way of distributing Australian product news directly to the media attending our events as well as enabling Tourism Australia to make our events more sustainable by significantly reducing the amount of paper used.

Every Australian travel organisation attending ATE as a seller company will be able to upload press releases onto the dedicated press room, accompanied by up to six high-resolution images, free of charge

Australian travel organisations who are attending ATE and who are already associated with TravMedia’s Australia Region will automatically have their press releases, photos, videos and details transferred across to the ATE news room database.

Australian sellers who don’t have an existing account with TravMedia will need to set one up for the ATE online news room by going to http://www.travmedia.com/ate2010/and following the simple to use instructions. The deadline for activating a new TravMedia account for ATE is Friday 21 May.

Sellers will be able to submit their ATE press releases from Monday 10 May to Thursday 27 May, with the first Daily Summary of news stories available to the media from Saturday 29 May. A daily alert will then be sent to media until Friday 4 June, provided news is supplied.

ATE10 will take place at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide from 29 May to 4 June 2010.

The event provides a forum for Australian tourism businesses such as hotels, airlines, tour companies and transport providers to meet with international wholesalers and retailers from around the world to showcase their products to the global distribution network and negotiate deals.

Around 1,700 Australian delegates from 600 companies are expected to meet with 700 key buyers from more than 40 countries at ATE10.

(Source : Travel Daily Asia)

The information was released at a press briefing in Hanoi on October 24 by the Vietnam National Tourism Administration.

A number of meetings will be held during the forum, including meetings of ASEAN Tourism Ministsers and ASEAN plus Tourism Ministers, a meeting of ASEAN National Tourism Organisations (NTOs), and meetings of ASEAN NTOs + 3 (China, Japan and the Republic of Korea), and ASEAN NTOs + 1 (India, Russia, Australia and New Zealand).

Delegates will review the implementation of cooperation programmes and discuss ways to promote tourism cooperation among ASEAN member countries and between ASEAN and its dialogue partners

An ASEAN Travel Expo will also be held to create a chance for service providers, tour sellers and operators to seek business opportunities and attract tourists from potential markets.

The regional tourism forum was held in Malaysia for the first time in 1981. Since then it has been held annually in ASEAN member countries on the rotary basis.

This is a part of programme to commemorate the 40-year victory at the Dong Loc crossroads (July 24, 1968 - July 24, 2008).

The fair is aimed at advertising the province’s potentials and advantages to develop trade and tourism and the province is currently carrying out a series of projects, including steel processing, electricity generation and iron exploration.

Present at the fair are 150 companies coming from other provinces and cities nationwide to display various kinds of goods, including industrial materials, agricultural products, clothes and foods in over 200 booths.

The fair will last until July 22.

This is an important part of the project VN201CRS on supporting the preservation, restoration and protection of objects in Vietnamese museums, including the necessary demands of the preservation of paper objects and relics.

The training course is being directly led by Dr. Anne Liénardy, a professor and expert on paper preservation at Belgium’s La Cambre University.

In addition, an exhibition on Vietnamese folklore paintings opened in Ho Chi Minh City’s Fine Arts Museum on October 20, 2008 which showcases 71 Hang Trong and Dong Ho folklore paintings.

The exhibition will run until November 5, 2008.