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NEWS BRIEF March 18, 2015 Contact: Ron Mracky – 213 935-8845 – infoATA@earthlink.net   SoCalATA 2015 Africa Travel Academy Los Angeles - During the Los Angeles/Long Beach 2015 Travel & Adventure Show the Southern California Chapter of the Africa Travel Association conducted its updated, full-day Africa Travel Academy. The Academy was attended by 24 front-line IATA and CST travel agents, representing 16 leading retail travel agencies in Southern California. The eight hour session was an intense training in what to, how to sell and how to book travel to Africa. The Academy instructors were some of the leading Africa experts in America – Alana Hayden of the iconic Born Free Safaris presented the Southern Africa segment, Jo Keita of the Nubian Tours gave details of what and how to sell West Africa destinations, Alan Feldstein of Infinite Safari Adventures gave an enthusiastic presentation of the East Africa destinations and offerings, Klaus Billep the CEO of Universal Travel System handled the unusual and rare adventures of Africa, Paula Newton of South African Airways provided an insight into the air traffic to and within Africa, and Jody Cole of Wild Rainbow African Safaris handled the specialized markets including the LGBT segment. Prem Sharma of the Best Safaris gave an overview of the booking relationship between the retail agents and the tour operators. Ron Mracky served as the Academy moderator, together with Sylvia Frommer-Mracky, both only days after concluding their nine-day inspection tour of the Tanzania southern camps and lodges and almost directly after the Academy departing for the ASTA Destination meetings in Morocco. The Academy was opened by Michael Madison; President of the Southern California Africa Travel Association and at end of the eight hours closed the event with a special prize provided by SAA of two airline tickets to South Africa. The Academy was well received and the post-Academy responses provided an insight into the qualitative nature of the event – all the attendees volunteered that they learned how to and what to sell and most important how to book travel to Africa.