This month SPTO renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) till November 2020.
SPTO and PATA have a cordial relationship and decided to renew their MoU which is now in its third year.
The MoU strengthens the SPTO and PATA collaboration. for this phase SPTO will support and promote the PATA Youth Tourism Initiatives and PATA will link SPTO to its members in the ASEAN region.
The latter is important for SPTO as it focuses on emerging markets in Asia. In terms of ongoing support, SPTO will organize a PATA tourism training workshop in Niue, previous workshops were held in Vanuatu (2017) and Samoa (2018).