Breaking Travel News has been made the Official Publication of the WTTC Global Travel & Tourism Summit, taking place in Dubai on April 20-22, 2008.

Breaking Travel News will produce the WTTC Global Summit Daily and it will be delivered by hand to each Speaker and Delegate at the Summit.

Attended by world leaders, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Travel & Tourism Summit discusses the priorities for the world’s largest generator of jobs and prosperity - Travel & Tourism - and is the most well attended event in the travel & tourism calendar.

The World Travel & Tourism Council, the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Jumeirah Group and Nakheel, have formed a dynamic public and private sector partnership to plan, prepare and host the Global Travel & Tourism Summit this year.

Set in a unique format - The Round - the Summit will engage invited participants in real dialogue on issues that affect the industry and the world at large. Invited participants include the Chairs and Chief Executives of the Travel & Tourism industry, heads of government, international experts and the global media.

Breaking Travel News is also to be the Official Daily Newspaper for the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference, as it has been for the past two years.

The Arabian Hotel Investment Conference will run from May 3-5, 2008 at Dubai’s Madinat Jumeirah Convention Centre and is jointly organised by The Bench and MEED.

Breaking Travel News ranks as one of the leading online travel news and information sites, attracting thousands of unique users every month.

The website - BreakingTravelNews.com - provides a broad range of information covering daily news, special reports and an extensive calendar of travel trade events.

The newswire service is sent out daily to all registered members delivering the latest headlines and special reports on the global travel and tourism industry.

The website was setup in 2002 by the World Travel Group who saw a need for providing bulletins to the tourism and travel trade on the Internet.

Five years on and it has become one of the Internet’s most comprehensive travel news networks.

The site is focused on global travel intelligence and offers free streaming video on the Website. The site already has a comprehensive video archive. All of the Video Travel News can be accessed free of charge, through the front page of the website.

BTN provides global travel news as it breaks—from airplane orders at the Paris Air Show to the effects of the Asian tsunami. It is not just about soft news associated with hotel openings and new air routes.

Unlike many daily newsletters and websites focused on this sector, the audience is truly global from the Asia-Pacific to Central Europe.

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