International Travel Trade Shows, Exhibitions and Conventions
Discover Travel Planners have over 30 years of experience in successfully selling at travel trade shows. This market knowledge and experience enables us to
- Select the right events to showcase our partners products
- Develop attention grabbing pre show marketing programmes
- Quickly sort the serious buyers from the “tyre kickers” at the busy shows
- Present a range products and services to the interested buyers
- Identify commercial opportunities for our partners
Trade shows
Listed below are some of the most popular travel trade shows and conventions which can be attended by Discover Travel Planners in 2010.
English Speaking Long Haul Markets
American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA)
Founded in 1931, ASTA is the world’s largest association of travel agents. It brings together more than 20,000 members from 140 countries and includes not only travel agents but also tour operators, airline companies, hotel chains, cruise liners, car rental companies, and more.
- September - The Trade Show (Las Vegas) - the US No 1 Travel Trade Show
National Tour Association (NTA)
The leading organization of US group tour operators with 3,000 members
The NTA annual Convention brings together 2000 North American group tour operator buyers and 900 sellers in a scheduled workshop structure over four busy days. Members only event.
- November - NTA Convention & Workshop (Montreal, Canada)
Vacation.com
The leading leisure travel agent consortium with an active membership of 14,000 of travel agencies throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is the largest and strongest network of US vacation travel agents with its own online booking platform delivering trips and tours to their members desktops.
- June - International Convention & Trade Show Orlando
Luxury Travel Expo
Luxury Travel Expo is the most attended travel event by both luxury agents and suppliers. This show attracts many of the most experienced and senior travel agents within the best industry associations including Virtuoso, American Express, Ensemble, Signature Travel Network and Carlson Wagonlit.
- December - Luxury Travel Expo, Las Vegas
European Travel Trade Exhibitions
- Fitur - The No1 international travel fair for the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Markets. January - Madrid
- Tur - The leading travel fair for Scandinavian markets. March - Gothenburg
- ITB - The world's largest travel fair, especially strong for Central European markets, attracting over 110,000 trade visitors. March - Berlin
Shows in the UK that Discover Travel Planners and Visit Britain trade sales missions will be attending alongside Discover Travel & Tours
- March - Best of Britain & Ireland (London)
- April - Visit Scotland Expo (Glasgow)
- May - Destination Britain (Dubai)
- September - Britain Marketplace (New York & Toronto)
- November - World Travel Market (London)