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Simon Press Reed Travel Exhibitions, senior exhibitions director, WTM
Responsible Tourism Day. WRTD is now in its W
sixth year and is a natural progression from WTM’s long-established Environmental Awareness Day. The movement seeks to inspire, educate and stimulate honest discussion and debate regarding the industry’s commitment to responsible travel. I am extremely proud to say today is the largest day of responsible tourism action in the world, with many events taking place all over the globe to mark WRTD. The programme starts with high-level debate on carbon pollution
in Platinum Suites 3 & 4, which includes Tui deputy chief executive Johan Lundgren, Jumeirah Group chief executive Gerald Lawless and South Africa tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk at 10.30am.
“Events are taking place all over the globe to mark WRTD”
The World Responsible Tourism Awards celebrates its 10th year,
with the ceremony taking place straight after the pollution debate. This year was the first that I have been on the judging panel. I found the process really enlightening and it was wonderful to see so many great examples of responsible tourism best practice. Also, not to be missed is the Amadeus and WTM Travel Experience
Awards. The Awards are the conclusion of a year-round WTM and Amadeus partnership, which has seen a series of high-level roundtable discussions (the White Paper for these roundtables is presented before the awards). The White Paper and Awards takes place in TT185 from 3.30pm. This year WTM has also launched the Travel Tech Show at WTM, to give technology a greater focus, as its space has grown by 70% over the past three years. I hope you find today engaging and inspiring.
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elcome to the third day of World Travel Market 2013. The highlight of today’s programme is World
04 NEWS.
04 News All the latest from across the travel industry 18What’s on today... A guide to the best sessions and must-see stands 24 Social media: Travel tweeters gathered for the fifth annual TTG Travel Tweet-up, sponsored by DoubleTree by Hilton 26 Technology: Travel Perspective’s Mark Frary on how the idea for the WTM Fresh competition came about 28 Analysis:We assess the factors that contribute to carbon pollution ahead of today’s roundtable, hosted by HARDTalk presenter Stephen Sackur 33 Intelligence: Is the industry doing enough to reduce its water consumption? Or will action only be taken if governments are forced to intervene to control usage by hotels and resorts? 34 Interview: As the UK awaits the Davies Commission’s final verdict, Heathrow chief executive Colin Matthews makes the case for its expansion as the best solution 36 Round-up: Discover Hornblower Niagara Cruises’ new catamarans, and see how Korea focuses on sports, health and wellbeing tourism
44 DESTINATION NEWS.
44 Europe & Mediterranean: How Flanders plans to commemorate the centennial of the First World War with four years of events; why Spain, after a record summer this year, is confident of an even stronger performance next year; how Malta’s capital city Valletta is gearing up for a year of cultural celebrations in 2018; plus interviews with four tourist boards 53 UK & Ireland: Ireland’s grand ambitions for its new touring route, the Wild Atlantic way; Scotland to unveil a multi-million pound marketing campaign, called Scotland Welcomes the World, as it prepares for three major events in 2014 53 Global Village: Profiles of new GV exhibitors Fox Transfer, Pool Safe, YTL Hotels, TotalStay, TransHotel and Steigenberger Hotels; plus more updates from exhibitors
62TOMORROW@WTM.
A pick of Tuesday’s highlights, including: WTM Talk Business; Travel Bloggers Unite sessions; and ITT Future You Conference
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