Category Archives: Exhibitions

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.

World Travel Market kick-started in London and will be held from November 4-6. India is participating too at the WTM London 2019, one of the largest international exhibitors of the travel and tourism industry to showcase India as a preferred destination for tourism. This year, India pavilion will focus on targeting internal experiences of travellers by showcasing not only India’s culture and heritage but also niche tourism products such as cuisine, wellness, yoga, wildlife and luxury. This year, over 30 co-exhibitors/partners comprising state governments, tour operators, hoteliers, wellness centres and other stakeholders will be present at India pavilion.

India ranked seven in Asia-Pacific region, in terms of hosting highest number of meetings in 2018, revealed International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA). India hosted a total of 158 meetings last year. Japan topped the list in the region with 492 meetings, followed by China with 449 meetings. Third in the list was Republic of Korea with 273 meetings Australia at number four with 265 meetings. Thailand (193 meetings) was ranked fifth while Chinese Taipei ranked sixth (173 meetings).

Harmandeeep Singh Anand, Managing Director, GPS, in a recent interview has mentioned that GPS will be launching EDWIN@Amazing Thailand in association with ATTA (Association of THAI travel Agents), TAT (Tourism Authority of Thailand) , THA (Thailand Hotel Association). He also said that, Trawelltag – Covermore will be the insurance partner. The itinerary will cover the less explored region of Kanchanaburi and Khao Yai in addition to Bangkok and Pattaya over a duration of 4nts/5days from 25-29 Nov 2019. Regional stake holders will showcase their products to all the attendees. Registrations will open exclusively from 31Oct for GPS 10X members with limited spaces.