Travel Industry Events News

ITB Berlin, one of the largest travel trade and consumer shows in Europe, kicked off on March 10, 2010 with Turkey as official partner country.

With fourteen and a half million visits, tourism is worth an estimated £1 billion to the Blackpool economy and supports 20,000 jobs in the resort.* So it’s only fitting that the town joins in the British Tourism Week celebrations.

ITB Berlin is the only travel trade show that continues to expand in the international marketplace, with the 44th edition of ITB Berlin emphatically confirming its leading role.

UITT, Ukraine’s largest exhibition for the travel industry, opens on 24 March in the IEC in Kiev.

An interim assessment of the world’s leading trade fair for the international travel industry reveals an extremely positive situation. David Ruetz, Senior Manager ITB Berlin: “During the first two days the number of trade visitors was at the same level as in 2009.”

MITT, the 17th Moscow International Travel & Tourism exhibition, opens on 17th March in Expocentre, in the heart of Moscow.

American Airlines announced today that it will be an official sponsor of the USA Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China.

ITB Berlin has announced a record number of exhibitors for this week’s show, with 11,127 companies, up marginally from 11,098 last year, from 187 countries.

ITB Berlin is fully booked again. From 10 to 14 March 2010 more exhibitors than ever before will be presenting their products and services, which cover the entire added value chain of the international travel industry.

Members of the Association of German Travel Management (VDR) have revealed an increasingly positive outlook in the business travel sector ahead of the world’s leading travel convention - ITB Berlin - later this week.