In the lead up to its 2013 edition, ILTM Americas (www.iltm.net/americas), the Americas’ largest and most exclusive gathering of the luxury travel industry has revealed a new report identifying a unique insight into the experiences that luxury travellers seek and share online.

Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE), organizer of International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM), will hold its second ILTM Spa next year in London from September 30-October 2, 2013.

A high profile range of international leaders from the world of luxury will take part in a series of exclusive, conversational, one-to-one interviews at the Opening Forum of this year’s International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) in Cannes on Monday 3 December. The ILTM Opening Forum launches ILTM 2012 – the annual, ‘invitation-only’ event for the world of global luxury travel, taking place from 3 – 6 December in Cannes, France.

The inaugural ‘Spa & Wellness by ILTM’ from 10-12 September at Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Seefeld, Austria, has announced its conference line-up of sessions that will inspire the leisure industry’s marketing techniques for the future.

ILTM Asia (International Luxury Travel Market Asia) 2012, the ‘invitation only’ exclusive event for planners and designers of bespoke luxury travel experiences, has announced that over 21,000 business appointments had taken place during the three day event.

The founder of Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts, Ho Kwon Ping, speaking at the Opening Forum of ILTM Asia 2012, says that the future of high end travel will be driven by the emergence of ‘rainbow tourism’ made up of people of multicultural origins from mature markets and from the emerging BRIC nations.