A world of options discovered at The Travel Industry Exhibition

The first ever Travel Industry Exhibition took place 18-19 July 2014 and saw over 1300 exhibitors and visitors attending the show. Exhibition spaces were occupied by a range of destinations, airlines, hotels, travel technologies, cruises and travel organisations.
 

Show highlights included Dubai Tourism, whose eye catching stand invited visitors to be decorated in sparkly henna and Sri Lankan beauties pouring Ceylon tea, while JC holidays treated visitors to a fantastic belly dancing and sword balancing performer!
 

Amanda Steven’s presentation was full to capacity, with standing room only and provided visitors with fantastic insights into customer service and marketing.
 

The first day closed with networking drinks and was attended by a huge number of exhibitors and visitors and provided a great chance to continue to meet and do business. The event closed with the award for best stand presented to Dubai Tourism.
 

The event was attended by visitors from across the industry including, 37% travel agency owners from boutique agencies. Visitors reported that they were most interested in networking with industry peers, discovering and comparing new products and services and attending the many free industry seminars.
 

Some lucky visitors walked away with holidays to Africa, Dubai, the US, Bali, Thailand as well as a number of designer passport covers.
 

The inaugural event is the travel industry’s only b2b trade event of its kind and was a huge success, bringing buyers and sellers together over the two days. Exhibitors reported doing business with senior business managers and owner operators – the positive reaction to the show was demonstrated with expressions of interest to rebook at the show’s close.
 

In 2015 the NTIA will co-locate and further build the show into the must-attend event on the travel industry calendar.