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WTM reveals Meetings, Conference & Incentive Travel Day
New initiatives for Meetings, Conference & Incentive Travel Day at World Travel Market on November 15 have been revealed.
The day includes two stage events dedicated to the airline and hotel sectors.
WTM’s focus on the meetings, conference and incentive travel sector has attracted support of key associations and Conference & Incentive Travel magazine.
The day commences on the ExCel Exhibition Centre World Stage at 11.00 with an airline panel discussion entitled “The Forgotten Traveller – The Future of Premium Air Travel/The Airline Traveller – Managing Customer Expectations” organised with WTM’s broadcast partner CNN.
The event will be chaired by CNN news and business anchor and correspondent Richard Quest. He will be joined on stage by leading players representing the low cost, private charter, airport and multinational airline alliance sectors.
With a record number of hotel exhibitors at this year’s WTM the main event, on the World Stage at 14.00, will include David Kong, president and CEO, Best Western; Reas Kondraschow, senior vice president and managing director, Cendant Hotel Group International; Jurgen Fischer, president commercial operations, Hilton Group and Gerard Greene, CEO Yotel, in a ‘Hotels 2005’ panel discussion.
The day’s programme also features two seminars.
WTM group exhibition director Fiona Jeffery said: “The growing importance of the meetings, conference and incentive travel sectors at World Travel Market is reflected not just in the number of supporters involved in the day but through our association with CNN and the aliber of panellists from hotels and airlines.”
Report by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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