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Air
Highways 10th Anniversary Edition debuts at Major
Travel Industry Events in 2006 ...
and one of our main inserts will bean update from
our first edition in 1995 featuring many of the
speakers from our Air Highway Days Expo and
our
Air and Marine
Tourism Conference. Watch for more announcements on
this exciting program. E D I T O R I
A L On
this site is a list of DOWNLOADS
- each of which is available in the colorful,
convenient, easy to print PDF format we love so
well. This amazing technology, first introduced by
Adobe about the time myself and friends were making
our dauntless debut in the publishing side of this
fascinating media world. The PDF, short for '
personal document file,' is finally gaining the
acceptance it so rightly deserves. Features
from back issues of Air Highways and Africa Travel
Magazine, plus other gems of interest to our
readers worldwide, will be provided via this web
site and sites that network with us. Please feel
free to sample any of the selections below - we
promise a much bigger choice in the months
ahead. What
many readers don't know is that our first step in
publishing was a series of travel maps showing
various modes of transportation. Several hundred
thousand copies were distributed by our clients
Best Western Hotels and Avis Rent A Car to their
customers. This led to an assignment by the
Government of Canada to create what we called a
"Supermap" of Air Routes. People wanted to know how
to get from here to there - and most still do,
judging from the e-mail inquires we receive. From
this foundation we met with Transport Canada and
regional Airport Managers to arrange distribution
and develop a monthly series of articles on gateway
airport communities. "Thanks
Boeing for a delightful
introduction In
1995, we launched "Air Highways Magazine" and
organized an Air Highway Day event to showcase
member airports and communities to the travel
trade. This success was followed by an Air and
Marine Tourism Expo. Good fortune continued to
smile on us and we were contacted by the Africa
Travel Association, based in New York. The
publication we launched jointly with ATA is Africa
Travel Magazine, which is now a well known entity
in its field, along with a 2,400 page web site
that's leading the pack in many search
categories. The
idea of combining the best of both travel business
magazines in a single issue was on my mind for
several years - and this spring it began to grow
roots. At the ATA 30th World Congress in Nairobi
Kenya, we spoke to many delegates - and at one
table alone we discovered that each person had
flown a different route to Nairobi. Some arrived
via Ethiopian Airlines from the USA with an
overnight stop in Addis Ababa. Others came via
Dubai with a stopover for shopping enroute, while
many flew South African Airlines. In our own case,
we began with a United Airlines flight from Seattle
to London, then flew the second leg of the journey
with Kenya Airways. Other delegates flew with SN
Brussels, British Airways - and the list goes
on. My
point is that many travelers have no clue as to the
variety of options available. So, just like we did
in North America with the Supermaps back in the
early 90s, we proudly introduce "Air Highways to
Africa." This prestige issue will debut in March
2006, and I am confident it will be well received.
Copies of the original Air Highways Magazine and
the APEC- Asia Pacific edition will soon be
available on the PDF list below. We
invite your comments, backgrounders and news
releases for this exciting new edition. Warmest
Regards The
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One
of the blessings of today's Computer Age is the
ease which we can archive the results of our
efforts of the past several decades - and leave a
footprint in the sands of time. From thousands of
photo images we've taken and processed during
numerous trips and from the African Continent, to
conference reports, speeches, in-depth interviews,
biographies and flashbacks - our editors are able
to recall, restore, rethink and regenerate a
library of material from this vast treasury. That's
why on this, the 10th Anniversary of our two
travel-business magazines - and the 30th
Anniversary of the Africa Travel Association, I am
pleased to introduce some new features that will
soon appear in our magazines and on our web
sites.