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The World Tourism Organization
(UNWTO/OMT) is a specialized agency of the United
Nations and the leading international organization in
the field of tourism. It serves as a global forum for
tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism
know-how.
ICCA represents the main specialists
in handling, transporting and accommodating
international events and comprises approximately 850
member companies and organisations in over 80 countries
worldwide.
ASTA, short for the American Society
of Travel Agents, is the world's largest association of
travel professionals. Our 20,000-plus members include
travel agents and the companies whose products they sell
such as tours, cruises, hotels, car rentals, etc. We are
the leading advocate for travel agents, the travel
industry and the traveling public.
Through its 60 years of existence,
WATA symbolizes quality and standard of services. We
give you access to highly selected and reputed
independent incoming travel agencies in more than 70
destinations worldwide, offering high quality services
in the tailor-made segment of the tourism trade.
IATA is an international trade body,
created some 60 years ago by a group of airlines. Today,
IATA represents some 230 airlines comprising 93% of
scheduled international air traffic. The organisation
also represents, leads and serves the airline industry
in general.
The RDA - International Coach Tourism
Federation was established in 1951 as the Reise Ring
Deutscher Autobusunternehmungen. Its current membership
consists of some 3,000 companies from over 70 sectors in
more than 40 countries worldwide. The RDA is Europe’s
largest umbrella organisation for the coach tourism
industry and for its business partners.
Deutscher ReiseVerband (DRV) is the
umbrella association of the world’s largest outbound
market for foreign travel. Germans spend more money
(€60.5 billion) on trips abroad than any other nation.
This global web site presents
OFFICIAL weather observations, weather forecasts and
climatological information for selected cities supplied
by National Meteorological & Hydrological Services
(NMHSs) worldwide.
Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel
advice, tips and destination information to inspire you
from Lonely Planet.
TripTracker is a social travel
mapping service designed to help you organize and store
memories of your travels and create eye-catching
presentations of your trips. TripTracker helps travelers
share the tales of where they have been, what they have
seen and what they have experienced, either with friends
and family, or with the entire traveling world.
ViaMichelin designs, develops and
markets digital travel assistance products and services.
Set up at the end of 2000, ViaMichelin shares the desire
of its sole shareholder, the Michelin Group, to
contribute to improving mobility by becoming a major
European supplier of innovative services in the field of
travel.