The 2009/2010 is sanctioned as a full continental tour. This means that riders will be awarded world ranking points for winning and being placed within each of the disciplines they compete in. Riders will then be able to view their overall world ranking position against all other riders in the world on the official International Kiteboarding Association website at any time during the season.

Under the IKA sanction the KTA is able to run a number of different disciplines under their unified rule and rankings system, for the 09/10 tour the KTA events will concentrate on two of these disciplines, as they are able to run at all the locations the tour stops at. The two KTA tour disciplines are : For further details and for the rules of each of these disciplines please go to the competitor info and registration page.

Each tour stop has been designated as a four day event. The first day is allocated as a free ride warm-up day for riders to test out the location and to allow for registration and the competition format, rules and safety briefings to take place. The following three days are then full competition days that will be organised and run in accordance to the weather and conditions on any given day. The final event wind-up and prize giving will then take place at the end of event party on the final evening of the tour stop.

For the first year of the KTA is has been decided to limit the tour to five countries, to enable the tour to find its feet and establish itself before growing further, which it fully hopes to do in future years. This future growth will include not only the addition of further countries on the tour, but also potentially other areas of kiting from the full range of power kite sports activities. So the future KTA may well also include events on the land and snow as well as the water.

This years KTA however is firmly water based and will be stopping of in the following countries :

China Hong Kong Vietnam Philippines Thailand