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PATRICIA
BROWN OF KAMBI TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
RECEIVES THE AFRICA TRAVEL ASSOCIATION'S
2003 AWARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF
RESPONSIBLE TOURISM TO
AFRICA
Kambi
appointed Consolidator for Trans Atlantic
Airlines
Ms. Patricia Brown, President of Kambi
Travel International, Inc., received the
prestigious Promotion of Responsible
Tourism to Africa Award from the
Africa Travel Association (ATA) during its
28th Annual International Congress which
was held in Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia
May 11-16, 2003. She is truly deserving of
this special recognition by her ATA peers
based on her outstanding contributions
over the past twelve years to the ATA
organization as well as for the more than
twelve year's that she has been actively
involved in the promotion of the travel
and tourism industry of Africa. She was
acknowledged for her substantial
contributions to the promotion of
responsible tourism within the ATA
organization at all levels and is
definitely a model of commitment and
service to the promotion of travel and
tourism opportunities to the Continent of
Africa.
She
is the Founder and President of Kambi
Travel International, Inc. (KTI) , a full
service travel and tourism agency based in
the Washington Metropolitan Area offering
discount and wholesale travel and tourism
services to destinations on the Continent
of Africa. She is currently a Member of
the International Board of Directors of
the Africa Travel Association as well as a
member of the following ATA Standing
Committees: Program, Planning and
Development Committee and Membership
Committee.
Born
in Sierra Leone, West Africa, she has
successfully managed over the past twelve
years to establish her company as one of
the premiere travel agencies recognized by
most major airline carriers. In the
process, she has successfully organized,
coordinated and hosted many travel and
tourism shows, marketing and sales
campaigns, as well as conducted various
familiarization tours for travel
professionals and conference/meeting
planners interested in the travel and
tourism industry of Africa. She has
visited more than twenty-five African
countries (at least once) over the past
twelve years and recently achieved her
life-long dream of establishing a travel
agency in her native homeland.
Kambi
Travel International is a member of the
Africa Travel Association (ATA), the
American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA),
and the International Association of
Travel Agencies (IATA) and her company
currently has contracts with the following
airlines that have routes throughout
Africa: Air France, British Airways, Ghana
Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Lufthansa
Airlines, KLM Airlines, Nigeria Airways,
Sierra National Airlines, Red Air, Swiss
Air, SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin
Atlantic Airlines. In addition, her agency
has established international offices in
the West African countries of Sierra Leone
(Freetown), Ghana (Accra), and The Gambia
(Banjul) in order to coordinate group
operations for KTI's tours to West
Africa.
To
further elaborate on her recognition for
the ATA's "Promotion for Responsible
Tourism to Africa Award &endash; (North
American-Based)", the following is an
overview of her many accomplishments and
achievements both within the ATA
organization and with other similar
Africa-focused organizations and
associations:
In
the year 2002, she was designated by the
Government of Sierra Leone as the Official
Tour Coordinator for the Inaugural Home
Coming Summit that was held in Freetown,
Sierra Leone December 27-31, 2002. This
first-of-a-kind event was hosted by H.E.
Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, the President of
Sierra Leone, who called for all Sierra
Leoneans living abroad to become a part of
the rebuilding of the country. She not
only successfully facilitated a special
charter flight for the Summit Delegates
but was a featured speaker on the subject
of the importance of the travel and
tourism industry to the economic growth
and development of Sierra Leone.
In
addition, she conducted a Familiarization
(FAM) Tour in May 2002 for several ATA
members to visit Sierra Leone in order to
meet with the Sierra Leone Tourist Board
Officials. She has also continued to
champion the interest in potential trade
and investment opportunities in her
homeland and has encouraged many Sierra
Leoneans to follow her example and invest
back into their homeland over the past few
years. She has also employed many West
Africans in her travel agency and provided
them with opportunities to further expand
their knowledge of the travel and tourism
industry through ongoing education,
training and familiarization trips in West
Africa.
She
also collaborated with Air Afrique, in its
heydays, on the conduct of numerous
familiarization (FAM) tours to the West
African countries of Senegal, The Gambia,
Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Benin, and
Nigeria. She offered these educational
programs to many ATA members and
introduced many African airline carriers,
tour operators and hotelier business
persons/investors to the ATA organization.
As a Member of the ATA Board of Directors,
she frequently offers advice on successful
strategies for becoming a travel
professional and works very closely with
new African ATA Members to improve upon
their marketability skills for partnering
opportunities with American ATA Members.
She
also attends on an annual basis the
various travel and tourism industry trade
show exhibitions such as the World Travel
Market (WTM) in London, England and INDABA
in Durban, South Africa. In addition to
the above ATA-related activities, she has
further expanded the ATA organization's
influence and recognition through her
involvement with the Constituency for
Africa (CFA), in which she has contributed
to the lobbying efforts directed at
federal government agencies and
congressional representatives about the
value of the travel and tourism industry
of Africa with regard to the
implementation of the African Growth and
Opportunity Act (AGOA). She is also
involved with the American and African
Business Women's Alliance (AABWA), which
is an international organization devoted
to the empowerment of entrepreneurship
between American and African women
business owners. For more information
about Kambi Travel International, Inc.
please visit their website.
Web
Site: http://www.kambi.com
1400 Mercantile Lane, Suite 208
Largo, Maryland 20774
Tel. 301-925-9012, Fax 301-925-9211
Email: kambitravel@aol.com
Patricia Brown, Owner/Manager
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Washington,
D.C: Kambi Travel International, a full
service travel and tourism company based
in the Washington Metropolitan Area has
been appointed Airline Consolidator for
Trans Atlantic Airlines (TAA). This newly
formed airline carrier is the only
scheduled direct airline carrier to West
Africa from JFK International Airport in
New York and Dulles International Airport
in Washington, D.C. to Lagos, Nigeria;
Banjul, The Gambia; Freetown, Sierra
Leone; and Dakar, Senegal. According to
the Chairman and CEO of Trans Atlantic
Airlines, Chief I.J.O. Njoku, a Nigerian
national and New York-based entrepreneur
with a strong track record in real estate
development, "This new airline service
will be highly focused on the expansion of
U.S.-Africa market requirements and
promises to restore the comfort,
reliability and affordability of traveling
to West Africa as it was meant to be.
Passengers to West Africa currently have
to connect through Europe with 7-8 hours
layover, coupled with higher ticket costs.
Trans Atlantic Airlines has shortened the
amount of time in half required to fly to
West Africa with direct routes and
superior services for its customers.
Overall, Trans Atlantic Airlines promises
no delays, no hassles, no transit visas,
and most importantly, no luggage will be
left behind."
Trans
Atlantic Airlines will operate from New
York twice weekly to Lagos via Banjul and
once a week to Lagos via Freetown. The JFK
International Airport (New York) service
will commence on October 30, 2003. Trans
Atlantic Airlines will operate once a week
from Washington, D.C. to Lagos via Dakar
as well as once a week to Lagos via
Freetown. The Dulles International Airport
(Washington, D.C.) service is scheduled to
commence on December 8, 2003. In addition,
Trans Atlantic Airlines will be operating
from Houston International Airport
directly to Port Harcourt in Nigeria via
Banjul. This service is expected to
commence in December 2003. Chief Njoku has
successfully assembled a senior management
team for the airline carrier with more
than 160 combined years of proven
expertise and experience in the airline
industry to include SAS, World Airways,
Gulf Air, Air India and Kuwait Airways.
Trans Atlantic Airlines will operate a
state-of-the-art Airbus A330-300 wide body
aircraft with forty-two reclining flat bed
seats and 236 premium economy seats with
ample luggage space to truly satisfy the
needs of the leisure traveler and the
business traveler as well as the ethnic
traveler to the above-mentioned West
African destinations. Trans Atlantic
Airlines is an Airlines Reporting
Corporation (ARC) participant as well as a
member airline of the International
Airlines Travel Association (IATA). Trans
Atlantic Airlines" airline industry code
is KC/448 and its schedules and fares are
now available in Galileo, Sabre, Worldspan
and Amadeus.
For more
information about Trans Atlantic Airlines,
please contact Kambi Travel
International directly at: Tel: (301)
925-9012; Fax: (301) 925-9211/Toll Free:
1-800-220-2192; E-Mail: HYPERLINK "mailto
info@kambi.com
or
kambitravel@aol.com
Also, visit Kambi Travel
Internationalís website at
http://www.kambi.com
The
Africa Travel Association (ATA) is an
international, non-profit, non-political
professional travel industry organization
established in 1975 to promote travel and
tourism opportunities to the Continent of
Africa.
For
more information about becoming a member
of the Africa Travel Association, please
contact corporate headquarters at 347
Fifth Avenue, Suite 610, New York, NY
10016. Telephone Number: (212) 447-1926;
Facsimile Number: (212) 725-8253; E-Mail
Address: africatravelasso@aol.com; and ATA
Website:
www.africa-ata.org.
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