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AIBTM voted by the industry as the ‘Best of Show’ in the US this year, has announced a unique event partnership with PCMA, as well as collaborations with SITE and ACTE to deliver America Meetings Week for AIBTM 2012.
Whilst PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) has created an exclusive strategic partnership agreement with RTE’s IBTM portfolio, this means that AIBTM will be the only event in the US to deliver the collaboration in 2012.
The alliance will see both thought provoking and invigorating content and speakers for the education program as well as significant support to the event’s Hosted Buyer recruitment.
Powered by PCMA, AIBTM will facilitate a ‘State of the Industry Debate’ where the sessions will invite top-tier keynote speakers to talk about relevant cutting edge topics at this year’s show, which takes place in Baltimore US from June 19-21, plus an “Executive Edge Program”.
AIBTM will also partner with SITE securing attendance from their top-level members as Hosted Buyers at next year’s show. The event also sees the SITE Young leaders program, designed to build the next generation of motivational leaders by providing education and networking opportunities in a manner that will appeal directly to the younger generation.
Another collaboration is with ACTE (Association of Corporate Travel Executives) who will deliver an educational track of sessions pertinent to face-to-face meetings in the context of business travel. They will focus on how industry professionals can make the most of face time and developing technology to best enhance the corporate travel experience.
AIBTM has also recently taken 16 new exhibitors onboard who will be in the trade show. To add to this, a further 24 of the current total exhibitor base have increased their stand sizes, some by more than 400 sq ft.
Some of the biggest stand increases, to allow more sharing partners, include Hilton Worldwide – from 800 sq ft in 2011 to 1200 in 2012. Similar increases are represented with Panama Tourism Authority, Meet Washington State (formerly Seattle CVB), Dominican Republic Tourism Board, Embratur, Brazilian Tourist Board.
New for 2011 includes The CVBs of New York State, TUI Event Management, Moroccan National Tourism Office, Carlson Hotels, Visit Pittsburgh and Salt Lake CVB. A full list of exhibitors will be up on www.aibtm.com in early January.
Steve Knight, Reed Travel Exhibitions AIBTM Event Director commented “Our new partnerships, the alliance with PCMA as the only event they will be supporting in the US, the growth of the show floor and a number of further initiatives is starting to build America Meetings Week. We expect to be announcing further developments in the New Year”.
AIBTM takes place from 19th June – 21st June, 2012.
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