52 years of professional CME travel experience

We are pleased to offer for your review our 2010 CME TRAVEL PROGRAMS. Backed by a staff of experts with over 50 years experience in professional meetings and travel, we have coordinated CME arrangements for tens of thousands of physicians, health care professionals, their families and friends.

Worldwide, our CME travel programs are handled by an elite group of deluxe destination management specialists. This network of member companies has proudly served over two million travelers, and is committed to the detail their unique destinations require. They are able to offer you travel experiences not available through regular tour packages.

The directors of Professional Travel Abroad (PTA), the leaders in CME travel, were pioneers in the field of international Continuing Medical Education Travel Programs. They established the professional format for today's CME Travel Programs. From their inaugural trip to Japan and Hong Kong in 1968 for ophthalmologists and their families, they have been continually active in overseas CME programs, from small study tours to world congresses. The many destinations that they opened to CME travel programs over the years still retain their mystic and exotic charm. Years of dedication and knowledge have earned the PTA staff a reputation of leadership and unsurpassed excellence.

Through the years our valued customers have enjoyed the travel arrangements made by PTA directors and now together with a staff of dedicated professionals, PTA brings you over 50 years of knowledge and experience in overseas CME travel programs. We are experts in knowing how to make the most of the physicians' CME travel time and are able to offer you the following:

Advantages of a PTA group travel program

• CME meetings and conferences in exciting foreign destinations, exchanging experiences and opinions with international colleagues, often in places usually inaccessible to the individual traveler.
• Provide CME documentation.
• The ability to stretch your travel dollar to include airfare, hotels, sightseeing, and meals for approximately the same cost as an individual economy air ticket.
• Professional tour managers who will care for your needs, ease your way through airports, hotel check-ins, facilitate luggage handling, arrange special dinners and help with individual special needs, thus ensuring you the highest return for your travel dollar.
• Make it economically sound to have your family and friends join you and share the excitement of foreign travel.
• Have deluxe destination management specialists handle your arrangements in each country visited.
• Assist you in making all pre-tour arrangements i.e. visas, domestic flights, overseas pre or post tour individual arrangements.
• Making each Professional Travel Abroad experience a truly outstanding one.

Travel in style

Professional Travel Abroad offers an all-encompassing travel program: deluxe arrangements that meet the most discriminating standards for service and comfort; convenient week-end departures and choice of departure dates; excellent hotels, comprehensive sightseeing, entertainment, cultural activities, dining at fine restaurants and professionally trained escorts... with PTA you travel in style all the way.

What doctors are saying...

Dr. Belen & Pompeyo Borja, Staten Island, NY

This year was our 4th year of travel with PTA. All tours were excellent and well organized. We have wonderful memories which we'll cherish for the rest of our lives. In addition the medical visits were very interesting and the information added a new perspective to our trip.

Dr. Charles Davant, III, Blowing Rock, NC

I do not see how any trip I could take in the future could come close to measuring up to our Egyptian Odyssey. I have travelled abroad at least a dozen times in the past and never have my wife and I had as capable a tour director. The trip was abolutely wonderful. The hotel and boat provided excellent accommodations and the professional component exceeded my expectations. Thanks to PTA for a wonderful experience.

Dr. Kenneth J. Patt, Park Ridge, IL

"My wife and I took the Kenya and Tanzania tour. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The professionalism and courtesy shown to us by our drivers and tour guide was outstanding. We recommend this tour without reservation."

Dr. Jane Simon & Andrew Sverdlove, New York, NY

Hats off to PTA for a wonderfully designed and organized trip to Scandinavia. I learned a great deal appreciated the balance of structured and free time. After a few months to catch up on my work, I'll be ready for my next trip with PTA.

Dr. Venkat & Gita Mani, Alexandria, VA

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Egypt. It was all well planned and organized. The time was well spent and the maximum amounth of sights were visited in a short period of time. We would definitely recommend your tour guide and the PTA Travel Group for any future travel.