WTM poised to be the best-ever attended
WTM is reporting a 5% rise in delgates for the first three days of World Travel Market 2013.
The first day (Monday 4 November) saw attendance up 12% on last year’s event to 8,916.
The Monday of WTM is an exhibitor invite-only day with the aim of allowing exhibitors to hold discussions and negotiations with those buyers that they want to conduct business with.
On Tuesday 5 November 18,292 visitors came to WTM, a 7% increase on the second day of last year’s event.
Tuesday is historically the busiest day of WTM as it is the first day the event is open to the whole industry following on from the exhibitor-invite only policy on the Monday.
Wednesday 6 November experienced a 5% increase in visitors to 14,324, compared to the same day at WTM 2012.
But the organisers did not yet release figures for the Thursday.
Reed Travel Exhibitions senior director World Travel Market Simon Press said: "These figures demonstrate the power and importance of WTM to the industry and the role it plays in facilitating business for sector.
"World Travel Market 2013 will facilitate more than £2 billion in industry deals and is poised to be the best-ever attended."
Click here to read a blog from a WTM first-timer, who can’t quite believe how big and smokey it is!
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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