Monday 17 March 2008

PATA Conference 1986

PATA stands for Pacific Area Travel Association. Malaysia is one of the country members of PATA. In 1986, the annual meeting/conference of PATA was held in Kuala Lumpur (9-16 April 1986). Malaysia postal authority (later on known as Pos Malaysia) issued a set of six stamps on 14 April 1986 to commemorate the event. The event was also promoted through meter cancellation. For the event held in Kuala Lumpur, an official logo with motif of sea turtle was used.

Meter cancellation carrying announcement of PATA conference. Postmark: Ipoh, 22 February 1986.

A set of six stamps commemorating PATA conference was released on 14 April 1986.

Actually, much earlier the annual PATA conference was also held in Kuala Lumpur in 1972. Postal authority of Malaysia released a set of three stamps (above) to commemorate the PATA 1972 on 31 January 1972.