Ua hoʻolaha ka Papa Hoʻokele o ka Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) ua koho ʻia ʻo Macau i kūlanakauhale hoʻokipa no PATA Travel Mart 2010 i manaʻo ʻia e lawe ʻia e 1,500 mau mea komo.
ʻO João Manuel Costa Antunes ka luna hoʻomalu o Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) a me kāna hope ʻo Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes ma ka Hui Papa Hoʻokele o PATA i mālama ʻia ma India.
Ma hope o ka hoʻolaha ʻana, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Antunes, "Ua hauʻoli nui mākou i ka lilo ʻana i mea hoʻokipa no PATA Travel Mart 2010 a mahalo mākou i ke kākoʻo o ka Papa Hoʻokele o PATA. E hana mākou i nā hana āpau e hōʻoia i kēia hōʻike kālepa huakaʻi huakaʻi mua no Asia Pacific e holomua.
"Ua kūpaʻa ke Aupuni Macau SAR i ka hoʻomohala ʻana i kahi hiʻohiʻona mākaʻikaʻi i hoʻohui ʻia e hoʻokō mālie i ka hoʻonui ʻia ʻana o ka ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi e hoʻopiʻi i nā malihini o nā makemake like ʻole mai ka honua," i hoʻomau ai ʻo ia.
Ua hoʻokipa maikaʻi ʻo Macau i ka 54th PATA Annual Conference ma 2005 a ʻo nā mahalo ākea i loaʻa iā mākou mai ka ʻoihana i hōʻike i ka hiki iā Macau ke hoʻonohonoho i nā hālāwai kūkā honua nui. ʻO ka lanakila ʻana i ka makana e hoʻokipa iā PATA Travel Mart no ka manawa mua e hōʻike hou i ko mākou ikaika ma ke ʻano he kūlanakauhale hoʻokipa no nā hōʻikeʻike honua a me nā ʻaha kūkā, "wahi a Antunes.
ʻO PATA Travel Mart kekahi o nā hōʻike kālepa huakaʻi i ʻike nui ʻia no Asia Pacific me kahi mōʻaukala lōʻihi. He kahua huakaʻi huakaʻi a me ka ʻoihana pūnaewele e huki ana i nā mea kūʻai kiʻekiʻe kiʻekiʻe a me nā mea hōʻike i kēlā me kēia makahiki.
Hoʻokumu ʻia ma 1951, ʻike ʻia ʻo PATA ma ke ʻano he hui mākaʻikaʻi alakaʻi ma ka ʻĀpana Pākīpika Asia. ʻO ka lālā o PATA ke kaena nei ma kahi o 100 aupuni, mokuʻāina a me ke kūlanakauhale mākaʻikaʻi, ʻoi aku ma mua o 70 mau mokulele a me nā laina holo moana, a me nā haneli o nā ʻoihana huakaʻi. Eia kekahi, ʻo nā kaukani o nā ʻoihana huakaʻi hele i nā Mokuna PATA ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa.
ʻO ka mikiona o PATA e hoʻonui i ka ulu, waiwai a me ka maikaʻi o ka huakaʻi a me ka mākaʻikaʻi o ka Pākīpika no ka pono o ka lālā o PATA. Ma ke ʻano he hui ʻoihana huakaʻi waiwai ʻole, hāʻawi ʻo PATA i kahi kahua no kona mau lālā e kaʻana like i ka ʻike a me nā ʻike no ka ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi.
He lālā ʻo MGTO no PATA mai 1966 a ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka Mokuna PATA Macau ma 1983.
Ua mālama ʻia ma Hyderabad, India i ka pule i hala, ua hoʻokipa ʻo PATA Travel Mart 2008 ma luna o 1,000 mau ʻelele kālepa, ʻo ia hoʻi he 374 mau mea kūʻai honua, 715 mau mea kūʻai aku ma Asia Pacific a me ka lehulehu o ka media honua. Ua hoʻouna ʻo Mainland China i kahi ʻelele ikaika o nā mea kūʻai aku a me nā mea kūʻai aku he 80 i ka Mart no ka mea e wehe ana i ke ala no ka PATA Travel Mart e mālama ʻia ma Hangzhou i 2009.
Ua hauʻoli ka poʻe komo mua ma ka Mart i nā koho i hoʻopaʻa ʻia e ka ʻoihana a me ke ʻano pilikino o ka Mart.
