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ASSOCIATIONS
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ATA - AFRAA
ATS
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CCA
CTO
IATA
IIPT
SATH
TIES
USTOA
UNWTO


The Travel Partnership Corporation

Board of Directors:

Jean-Claude Baumgarten, WTTC (Chairman)

Kevin Dobby, IATA

William A. Maloney, CTC, ASTA

Francesco Frangialli, WTO

Michael D. Gehrisch, IACVB

Birger Backman, UFTAA

Tom Jenkins, ETOA

Alain-Philippe Feutre, IH&RA

Michael Crye, ICCL

Maurizio Bussolo, UIC

Peter de Jong, PATA

October 6, 2003

Dear Sir/Madam:

On behalf of The Travel Partnership Corporation (TTPC), I am writing to you to draw your attention to the travel and tourism industry's on-going petition for its own sponsored top-level domain name (sTLD) .travel.

The Travel Partnership Corporation, established solely for the purpose of being a policy advisory organization for the .travel  sTLD, is currently represented by an eleven-member Board of Directors (anticipated to expand to 25 Directors over the next months, when fully constituted), which embodies broad geographical and industry sector diversity.

As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is close to announcing a date for the award of the sTLD, we now need to ensure that our records of travel industry associations are correct and complete so that every sector of the industry can be not only well informed about the progress of .travel but can take up the opportunity of participating within TTPC at the appropriate time. Therefore, we would be very grateful if you could respond via email with the following information:

President:

Contact :

Contact E-Mail Address:

Number of Members:

Industry Sector:

Brief description of activities:

In-house Publications :

Website:

For further information about .travel and TTPC please see http://www.ttpc.org/

Should you have any queries please feel free to contact me on telephone: +1-212-481-2820 ext 17, email: secretariat@ttpc.org

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Alexandra Delimata

Corporate Secretary