The Society of Polish American Travel Agents (SPATA) was created by founding members to promote the following aims:
- to maintain the best traditions of the travel business
- to improve the standards and good name of the travel business
- to follow the highest moral and ethical standards of conduct
- to represent the interests of SPATA agents before carriers and other travel trade industries
- to promote tourism to Poland, the countries of Eastern Europe and elsewhere
- to faster the cooperation and solidarity of members, to maintain mutual assistance among members, and to eliminate misunderstanding and all unnecessary and unfair competition