WTM London Review 2016
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SIMON PRESS Senior Exhibition Director WTM London
Welcome to the World Travel Market London 2016 Review Magazine The new-look three-day WTM London was a great success. A joint-record 51,500 senior industry delegates attended the leading global event for the travel industry, with more than 865,500 on-stand meetings over the three days (Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 November) leading to more than £2.5 billion in industry deals being signed. I am particularly pleased to be able
to report WTM London received a record 9,714 buyers from its WTM Buyers’ Club. These are the senior industry delegates having the business negotiations and fuelling the deals signed with exhibitors over the three days of the event. This digital review magazine will give you a detailed overview of this year’s highly successful event, and also cover The Travel Technology Show at WTM, A Taste of ILTM at WTM, and the WTM Speed Networking Programme, which included sessions for Buyers’ Club members and bloggers. Furthermore, it also looks in detail at the comprehensive WTM London events programme – which had more than 80 sessions covering the whole industry; including longstanding programmes in aviation, hotels and responsible tourism – with many features including videos of the sessions.
WTM London hosted 290 speakers including some of the most senior industry executive, IAG’s Willie Walsh,
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Emirates President Sir Tim Clarke, Thomas Cook Managing Director Chris Mottershead, and Tui MD Product and Purchasing Gary Wilson to name but a few. Digital Futurist Brian Solis and travel expert Doug Lansky also shared their unrivalled expertise and predictions. While the World Travel Leaders session debated the hot topic of Brexit.
WTM London 2016 also saw the 10th
World Responsible Tourism Day and the 10th WTM & UNWTO Ministers’ Summit. I hope you enjoy this review of WTM London 2016 and my team and I look forward to seeing you at the other
events in the WTM portfolio in 2017; ● WTM Latin America, 4-6 April Sao Paulo, Brazil
● WTM Africa, 19-21 April Cape Town, South Africa
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● Arabian Travel Market, 24-27 April Dubai, United Arab Emirates
● WTM Asia Connect, 17-19 May Pennag, Malaysia
And finally to welcome you to WTM London 2017 on Monday 6 – Thursday 8 November 2017.
SIMON PRESS
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