2009 ETOA workshop set to be biggest yet
In ETOA’s 20th anniversary year registrations for the Global European Marketplace are 25 per cent ahead of last year’s figures and the event is set to be the biggest so far.
With only a week left to the event 215 buyers and 350 European suppliers have confirmed their attendance.
GEM09 takes place over three days immediately before World Travel Market in London and is ETOA’s premier business event. The central activity is the GEM workshop on Friday November 6 at the New Connaught Rooms in central London.
Alongside the workshop, ETOA will be running an expanded conference (open to non-members and industry partners) with two business-related seminars on November 5 at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London. On November 7, the annual ETOA gala dinner, which this year will be at the London Sheraton Park Lane hotel after the closure of long-standing previous venue, the Café Royal.
"This is an ideal opportunity to catch up with existing European partners, meet potential new ones and discuss the European markets all under one roof," said Paul Wagner, director of purchasing – Europe, Tumlare/JTB Europe.
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