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FOCUS ON AFRICA and the NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL SHOW – APTA will once again partner with the New York Times Travel Show to present this industry only conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on February 25. The conference will include destination training and panel discussions.

• APTA corporate members are invited to participate in the expanded program:
  
  • Feb 25: Focus on Africa begins at 8am and will include sessions exploring the issues critical to our market. The Trade Show portion of the event follows the conference and will be open from 2-7pm on the floor of the New York Times Travel Show. During this time the show is open to the entire agent community.
    
  • Feb 26-27: APTA corporate members will retain their space on the floor of the show and exhibit throughout the weekend at the New York Times Travel Show, one of the most well-attended consumer travel shows in the nation.
    
• The cost to participate is $1700. A 15% “early bird” discount will be offered to corporate members who confirm and pay in full by November 30, 2010. Register now and save $255!
  
• Participation will be limited to 12 suppliers.
  
  DISCOVER AFRICA 2011 – Discover Africa exhibitors will have a table top display and a five minute presentation with projected images at each venue.
  
• Dates and Host Chapters
  
  • 8 March Denver
    
  • 10 March Pacific Northwest (Seattle)
    
  • 15 March Arizona (Phoenix)
    
  • 17 March Los Angeles
    
  • The cost to exhibit at each venue is $700. A 15% “early bird” discount will be offered to corporate members who confirm for all four venues and pay in full by November 30, 2010. Register now for all four venues and save $420!
    
• Participation will be limited to 16 suppliers per venue.
  

Key Speaker: John Kasaona, Assistant Director for Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) in Namibia, is a pioneer of community-based conservation and a leader in the drive to involve rural populations in the management and protection of their land and the species that reside there. Kasanoa’s Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program helps rural villages set up communal conservancies, which manage and use local natural resources in a sustainable manner. Essentially, it's about restoring a balance between land and people, and allowing the people with the most interest in the survival of their environment to have control of it. His work was featured in the recent film Milking the Rhino.