WTM London Preview 2016
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SIMON PRESS Senior Exhibition Director WTM London
WELCOME to the WTM London 2016 Preview, offering you a taste of what to expect at London’s ExCeL between Monday 7-Wednesday 9 November. The interactive pages that follow will give you an overview of WTM London’s industry-leading events programme, plus a sneak preview of some of the event’s headline speakers. Exciting elements this year across the new-look three-day format include the introduction of the WTM Inspire Theatre – an impressive amphitheatre venue hosting keynote addresses and sessions covering innovation and inspiration. Furthermore, the WTM International Press Centre is now located on the exhibition floor, bringing almost 3,000 members of the media closer to the 5,000 exhibitors.
The WTM Festivals – which will see a number of our exhibitors hosting networking events between the hours of 5-7pm on Wednesday 9 November – will close WTM London 2016 with a celebration of colour, music and culture from around the globe. The Travel Tech Show at WTM and
A Taste of ILTM at WTM return, bigger and better than ever, for their third outings. While the influential and hugely popular World Responsible Tourism Day and WTM & UNWTO Ministerial Programme return again on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. I am extremely pleased to announce
strong growth in exhibitors from around the world. For example, Travago will
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be exhibiting in the Travel Tech Show at WTM London for the first time. Furthermore, Turkish airline Atlas Globe and Ecuador’s fourth largest city Machala are also new for this year. The WTM Bloggers’ Speed Networking event returns with 100 of the world’s leading bloggers and digital influencers taking part in the 90-minute session. The speed networking event gives exhibitors a vehicle to discuss business opportunities with a group of people whose role in the industry is growing every year.
Looking beyond the event itself, WTM London is proud of its reputation as a year-round provider of trusted business intelligence. Through our extensive network of industry research partners such as PhoCusWright, Euromonitor International and Mintel we can now
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offer invaluable assistance to travel and tourism professionals around the world. We look forward to welcoming the world to London – again – for three days of vibrant, colourful, exhilarating travel- oriented business at WTM London 2016, the leading global event for the global travel industry.
SIMON PRESS
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