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Selling travel in a weak economy
The travel industry faces another challenging year brought on by recessionary economic conditions.
Consumer spending and disposable income is affected by job losses, making consumers nervous about investing in a next vacation.
Companies are seriously limiting business travel in an effort to reduce company expenses in a period of weak revenues.
In spite of general downward trends in the sale of travel products and services, experts believe that a weak economy creates opportunity for growth by stimulating innovative marketing and selling strategies.
The travel industry has proven to be resilient in the past – recovering from the many challenges resulting from safety and security issues, health threats and even recessionary crisis.
Experts believe that the current weak economy is no different.

Date and Location
June 30, 2009
FREE Live Webinar 10am Mumbai Time
Event designed for: All Audiences
Interact with our experts!
Moderator: Yeoh Siew Hoon, Producer-WIT-Web in Travel
Speakers
Peggy Esseldeurs, Assistant Director, Travel & Tourism Training, IATA
John Koldowski, Director, Strategic Intelligence Centre, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
Gary Grieve, Chairman, Chartered Institute of Marketing Travel Industry Group (CIMTIG) and Managing Director of Capela Travel Training
A K Bhatia, Director of Education, Kuoni Academy
How you will benefit
This IATA webinar ‘Selling Travel in a Weak Economy’ is for travel professionals who want to hear about:
-Finding opportunities to sell travel
-Managing business risks
-Developing new products and selling a specialty
-Marketing travel products and services online
-Innovating to reduce cost
-Maintaining customer loyalty
-Developing new business through social networking
-Increasing visibility through partnerships and branding
-Showing passion for travel
This IATA webinar for travel professionals will focus on surviving and perhaps prospering in a weak economy.
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