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Find out what to expect from World Travel Market with Natalie Marsh’s guide to the highlights
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tep inside ExCeL London on the morning of November 5,
and you will find yourself among some of the travel industry’s biggest stakeholders, influencers and decision-makers. Welcome to World Travel
Market, an event that brings together tourist boards, airlines, hotels, wholesalers and other suppliers with travel buyers from around the world. More than 50,000 attendees and almost 5,000 exhibitors descend on the Docklands venue across the three-day event, which is now in its 39th year. To help you make the most of its business sessions, we’ve picked out some of the most important sessions, so you don’t miss out on a moment of the action.
w RESPONSIBLE TOURISM Minimising environmental impacts, creating economic benefits for local people and understanding cultural and environmental issues might be some of the topics that spring to mind when you hear the words ‘responsible tourism’.
With more than 1.3 billion international tourist arrivals last year, it’s increasingly important that growth does not come with negative consequences. The travel industry, from small hotels to big corporations, has been taking steps to reduce its environmental footprint. Single-use plastic has come
to the fore, so find out what the travel industry is doing to minimise its use, in Is The Industry Reducing The Plastic Pollution It Causes? (Monday, 4.20pm, TA190). Hear from stakeholders including Sherin Francis, the chief executive of the Seychelles Tourist Board, and Jo Hendrickx, founder of organisation Travel Without Plastic. We’ve all heard the words
‘responsible tourism’ thrown around in the travel trade landscape, but how can you actually convey its importance to others? Communicating Responsible Tourism (Tuesday, 2.40pm, AF190) will shed some light on the trends and campaigns in this field, while demonstrating how best to
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