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CELEBRATING ALL THINGS PACIFIC ASIA


After a two-year break, Taste of PATA was back with a bang in September at Tanner Warehouse in London. Bringing together 24 exhibitors and 200 agents, the night celebrated the return of in-person trade events with such highlights as


Filipino karaoke, a drinking tour of the Aussie states, fried chicken courtesy of Taiwan and a star turn from a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK!


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1. CV Villas invited Vanity Milan, a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, to get the party started 2. Ronnie Del Barrio and team from the Philippine Baranggay Folk Dance Troupe show everyone some Filipino dance moves 3. From left: Lucy Pares, Tourism Northern Territory; Maria Popova, Western Australia: Daliah von Harten, Destination New South Wales; Janice Kurrle, South Australia Tourism Commission; and Emma Rowan, Tourism and Events Queensland 4. From left: Kat Alcantara, Jerone Arguelles, Ysobel Ortega, Onet Mendoza and Gerry Panga, from the Philippines Department of Tourism, London 5. From left: Helen Chan and Adela Liew, both Hong Kong Tourist Board; and Emma Cashmore, Wharf Hotels 6. Gerry Panga, Philippines Department of Tourism (left) congratulates Ivor Savage from DialAFlight on winning a fam trip to the


Philippines 7. Chris Lee, Tourism Authority of Thailand, and Grace Simpkin, Flight Centre Business Travel UK, who won a place on a fam trip to Thailand 8. Kannika Mac, Pornsiri Pintong and Betsie Barr from Tourism Authority of Thailand


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PICTURES: David Golledge


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