World Travel Market News

The move away from desktops towards smartphones and tablets is changing how the travel industry uses technology to connect with today’s multi-device consumer, concluded board-level travel industry participants at the recent World Travel Market (WTM) Round Table into the Future of Mobile. → Read More

Sofia Hedman, spa manager, Six Senses Spa, Sharq Village, Doha, speaks to Breaking Travel News at the World Travel Awards Middle East Gala Ceremony at Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort & Spa. → Read More

Chairman Fiona Jeffery OBE is to leave World Travel Market after 26 years to pursue other interests in the global travel and tourism industry. → Read More

Fiona Jeffery is to leave her role as chairman of World Travel Market after 26 years to pursue other interests in the global travel and tourism industry. She will continue her role as chairman of Just a Drop, the international water charity she founded in 1998. → Read More

WTM Latin America has created a dedicated area on the exhibition floor to showcase organisations with global representation. The ‘Global Village’ will host international hotel chains, technology companies and wholesalers who are heading to São Paulo this April for the inaugural World Travel Market Latin America, with many exhibiting at a Brazilian travel trade show for the first time. → Read More

With the success of WTM Vision Conference in Shanghai in 2012, World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, will this year be holding WTM Vision Conference – Beijing on Tuesday April 8th 2013. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear from top executives of the largest tour operators both in China and worldwide, discussing the Chinese inbound and outbound markets. → Read More

World Travel Market, the leading global event of the travel industry, today launches futuretravelleaders.TV, a dedicated channel featuring the travel and tourism’s rising stars of today and tomorrow’s industry leaders. → Read More

World Travel Market Latin America has received phenomenal global interest in its Hosted Buyers’ Programme. Almost 900 senior buyers from around the world applied to attend the inaugural WTM Latin America – which takes place in São Paulo April 23rd-25th - as part of the event’s Hosted Buyers’ Programme, before the application process close last week. → Read More

World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, has renamed WTM Meridian Club to WTM Buyers’ Club, the leading business network in travel, making contacts concluding deals. → Read More

World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, has renamed WTM Meridian Club to WTM Buyers’ Club, the leading business network in travel, making contacts concluding deals. WTM Meridian Club was launched in 1992 and celebrated its 21st anniversary at WTM 2012. → Read More

World Travel Market Latin America is poised to follow hot on the heels of sister event World Travel Market in London and generate a phenomenal amount of inbound and outbound business for the region. WTM 2012, the leading global event for the travel industry, will generate a record £1,860 million in travel and tourism industry deals – an impressive 13 per cent increase on WTM 2011’s £1,653 million - either through contracts signed at the event or from negotiations with Meridian Club buyers which will lead to deals before WTM 2013. → Read More