As part of a strategic engagement programme with the international leaders of the meetings industry, EIBTM has added 7 new members to its Advisory Board. The move serves as part of EIBTM’s ongoing commitment to building strong industry relations and ensuring the world’s leading event continues to innovate, and evolve with market expectations.

Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) has announced the growth of their strategic partnership with Site, the global association for the motivational events and incentive travel industry. Extending their long-standing relationship, Site will help build on the award winning AIBTM and Americas Meetings Week, and further develop its relationship across the IBTM portfolio including new programs at EIBTM and CIBTM.

With events on 5 continents for the global meetings industry, Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) is undertaking its first worldwide research among its total buyer and supplier database that will establish, twice a year, the first qualitative data and information on volume and value trends as well as the major issues affecting the industry.

Reed Travel Exhibitions and The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) have announced a joint collaboration across all events in their IBTM Portfolio. The strategic partnership aligned across the portfolio will ensure a unique level of knowledge, insight and expertise is delivered directly to the corporate Hosted Buyers who attend each of the IBTM shows.

Reed Travel Exhibitions meetings portfolio of events and the Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development (BTD) have signed an MOU to further strengthen the current strategic partnership which was originally formed in 2009. This new MOU will run through to 2013.

The British Helicopter Association (BHA) and Reed Exhibitions have signed a two-year deal for BHA exclusively to support Helitech, which takes place this year at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, near Cambridge, from 27 to 29 September.