WIT and China Travel Distribution & Technology Summit Join Forces

The 2008 China Travel Distribution & Technology Summit (CTD&TS), the country’s most important travel distribution conference has formed a marketing alliance with Web in Travel (WIT), Asia’s leading travel distribution, marketing, and technology conference. Both events will kick off two of the largest trade shows in Asia, the inaugural ITB Asia event in Singapore and the China International Travel Mart (CITM) in Shanghai in November. WIT and CTD&TS are supported by PhoCusWright, the travel industry research authority on how travelers, suppliers, and intermediaries connect.

WIT will open the inaugural ITB Asia event to be held in Singapore on October 22-24. Organizers of ITB Asia recently announced that it had sold out all of the 500 booth spaces for the event. The CTD&TS event to be held in November at the InterContinental Pudong Hotel in Shanghai will serve as a prelude to the China International Travel Mart (CITM) scheduled on November 20-23 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.

The 2008 WIT conference will tackle the theme of transformation in the Asia Pacific online travel industry as a result of the rapid rate of internet adoption by Asia’s youth and the numerous advances in the region’s technological infrastructure that are fueling one of the most exciting phases of the market to date, according to Yeoh Siew Hoon, WIT conference producer.

ITB Asia will showcase a full-range of travel products, services, and goods at the three-day B2B trade show and convention. International exhibitors from all sectors of the travel value chain as well as Asia Pacific’s leading companies and emerging small and medium-sized enterprises will be able to meet with top buyers from the MICE, leisure, and corporate travel markets at the event.

Established in 1988, the China International Travel Mart (CITM) is organized by the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) that provides exhibitors the opportunity of multiple business talks and negotiations with international buyers, Chinese travel agents and consumers. Though the outbound travel segment makes up only one-fourth of the event’s total exhibition space, attendance is a must as it is the principal international travel expo in China.

Source: Hospitality Net at www.hospitalitynet.org