Category Archives: Exhibitions

Organised by IFEMA, FITUR 2020 will take place from 22 to 26 January at Feria de Madrid where sustainability, technology and specialisation will again be in the spotlight. The last FITUR trade fair brought together 10,400 participating companies and over 253,000 attendees. The Trade Fair is boosting its B2B meeting agenda with the specialised sections FITUR B2B Match and FITUR MICE.

Travel M!CE Show, this year, has been scheduled for December 14 & 15 at the Trident Chennai. The show will also conduct over 1800 tailored meetings over two days and will also conduct panel discussion with the industry stalwarts about the issues that remain paramount to the industry. The panel discussion will also talk about the challenges and solutions to deal with what hampers the industry’s growth at the moment.

Travel M!CE Show, this year, has been scheduled for December 14 & 15 at the Trident Chennai. The show is a platform to meet over 65 buyers from across the country. The show will entail pan-India corporate meetings on day 1 and interactions and meetings with M!CE specialists on Day 2. The event will also witness buyers from pan India mainly 2 & 3.

MITT annually attracts around 22,200 visitors and 1,500 exhibiting companies and organisations from all corners of the world showcasing their travel opportunities to the Russian outbound market. A huge range of tourist destinations are set to showcase their tourism opportunities to MITT’s B2B audience next March. Each tourist organisation will provide support for their local companies such as inbound tour operators and travel agents, hotels and accommodation providers, and other travel service providers to promote themselves to Russian tour operators, travel agents, and those influencing where Russians travel.

The 11th Edition of the Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) 2020 will be held in Kochi from September 23-27, 2020. The venue will be Sagara and Samudrika convention centres of Cochin Port Trust in Willingdon Island. Organisers of the biennial conclave, organised by the KTM Society, with support from the Kerala Government’s Department of Tourism seeks quality buyers for the mart to boost tourism in the state as well as focus on new ways to fight new-age challenges. Announcing the event, Kadakampally Surendran, Tourism Minister, Kerala said that KTM 2020 will aim at exploring new markets for Champions Boat League (CBL), adventure tourism and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) along with finding excellent global buyers. “KTM 2020 will be a four-day event starting on September 24, with two days packed with sessions involving international buyers, MICE operators and corporate houses. The remaining two days will be for those involved in domestic tourism,” the Minister said. The afternoon session on the final day will be open to the general public.

Global Panorama Showcase (GPS) has joined hands with Red Tours for their upcoming EDWIN@EUROPE tour. Harmandeep Anand, MD, GPS, said that the tie-up has been done in order to educate agents on coach/ group tours to Europe. He added that EDWIN@EUROPE will have 50 agents from across India, and it will be held in February 2020.

Travel MiCE Show, this year, has been scheduled for December 14 & 15 at the Trident Chennai. The show will entail pan-India 30 corporate meetings on Day 1 and interactions and meetings with MiCE specialists on Day 2.  The show will also conduct over 1800 tailored meetings over two days.

With a focus on specialisation, business and professionalisation, the upcoming edition of FITUR, International Tourism Fair, organised by IFEMA, from the 22 to 26 January at Feria de Madrid, presents its greatly enhanced B2B meeting programs. These include the general meetings agenda, FITUR B2B Match, and the specialised meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions, FITUR MiCE, schedule. Both programs have proven to be an effective tool, concentrating a high business activity during the professional events at FITUR. Data from the latest edition show that there were a total of 9,150 B2B meetings with professionals from around the world.

Minar Group received the TravTalk-WTM World Travel Leaders Award at the recently held World Travel Mart London. The World Travel Leaders Awards honours companies and individuals for their outstanding contribution to the industry over the last 24 months voted for by the WTM partners. Speaking on the occasion, Gren Pacheco, VP, Business Development, said, “It’s a pleasure to be at WTM London. I want to thank TravTalk for this award and it feels great to have received it at such a big international forum.” 

Scheduled from 17-19 March, with just four months short, MITT 2020 is taking shape as one of the most prominent events of the travel and tourism industry. This event will witness 1,523 exhibiting companies from 229 countries and regions of the world besides 52 regions of Russia. MITT is the largest B2B travel & tourism trade show in Russia, attracting representatives of the tourism industry from Russia, regions and all over the world.