KEY TOURISM EXHIBITIONS IN THE EU
Submitted by christian on Tue, 10/13/2015 - 17:06
- World Travel Market (London): Staged annually in London, World Travel Market - the leading global event for the travel industry - is a vibrant must attend business-to-business event presenting a diverse range of destinations and industry sectors to UK and International travel professionals. It provides a unique opportunity for the whole global travel trade to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business. More than 50,000 senior travel industry professionals, government ministers and international press, visit the World Travel Market every November to network, negotiate and discover the latest industry opinion and trends at WTM. The event, now in its 36th year, generates more than £2.5 billion of travel industry contracts.
- ITB (Berlin): ITB Berlin is the foremost business platform for global touristic offers. Countries, cities and regions, tour operators, online booking portals and hotels, and many other service providers (10,000 exhibitors) from over 185 countries present their products and services. Book World, Business Travel Days, Cruises, Destinations, eTravel World, Forum Wellness, Gay and Lesbian Travel, Hotels, Culture Tourism, Mobile Travel Services, Training and Employment in Tourism/CareerCenter, Travel Technology, Transport, Youth Travel, Adventure Travel, Responsible Tourism. 115,000 trade visitors.
- IFTM Top Resa (Paris) France’s leading international B2B tourism exhibition, attended by over 30,000 trade professionals. The industry’s leading event for networking, doing business, innovating and keeping abreast of market developments, the exhibition offers a 360° panorama of the travel industry, covering all sectors: leisure, business and events.
- BIT (Milan): The International Travel Fair, known as Bit (Borsa Internazionale del Turismo) is an event that brings together trade operators from all over the world, a large audience of visitors, travel lovers, television reporters and press. Sponsored by Fiera Milano, the most important player in the Exhibition Industry in Italy and one of the biggest in the world, Bit takes place every year with more than 1.500 international and Italian Hosted Buyers, more than 2.000 participating companies and over 60.000 professional visitors.
- FITUR (Madrid): FITUR is a global meeting point for tourism professionals and the leading trade fair for inbound and outbound Ibero American markets. In 2015-confirming the trend towards recovery in the industry- 9,419 exhibiting companies from 165 countries/ regions, 125,084 trade participants and 97,467 people from the general public, met during FITUR. Moreover among the participation figures of note was the presence of 7,398 journalists from 60 countries, a turnout that demonstrates the importance of FITUR on the international circuit of tourism sector events.
- Matka (Helsinki): Largest travel industry event in Northern Europe. More than 1000 exhibitors from 80 different countries.
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