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19 Aug 2010

World Travel Market launches Technology and Online Travel Theatre at WTM

First Time a Conference Venue will be on the WTM Exhibition Floor

World Travel Market, the premier global event for the travel industry, is expanding its technology seminar programme for 2010 with the introduction of a presentation theatre on the exhibition floor within the technology and online travel section.

It’s the first time a conference venue has been positioned on the World Travel Market exhibition floor in the event’s 31 year history.

The new Technology and Online Travel Theatre at WTM is an exclusive platform for exhibitors to promote their products and services in 45 minute slots to technology and online travel buyers (member of WTM’s Meridian Club), other exhibitors and visitors.

Leading social media site TripAdvisor and travel industry website design and development company ZOLV are two technology also signed up to the Technology and Online Travel Theatre.

The 80-seat theatre is part of a much expanded technology and online travel conference and events programme which also includes presentations from British Airways, lastminute.com, Tui Travel, Google, Yahoo! and WAYN on a range of topics including social media and mobile.

World Travel Market Exhibition Director Simon Press said: “The new Technology and Online Travel Theatre is a great initiative to help exhibitors communicate the benefits of their products and services to the global travel and tourism industry.

“World Travel Market is a leader in innovation in the exhibition industry, and I’m delighted to be launching such an innovation to the travel and tourism industry in 2010.”

To obtain a 45 minute slots contact Jo Marshall on 020 8910 7982 or jo.marshall@reedexpo.co.uk

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About World Travel Market

World Travel Market, the premier global event for the travel industry, is the must-attend four-day business-to-business exhibition for the worldwide travel and tourism industry.

Almost 46,000 senior travel industry professionals, government ministers and international press, embark on ExCeL - London every November to network, negotiate and discover the latest industry opinion and trends at WTM.

WTM, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009, is the event where the travel industry conducts and concludes its deals.

WTM 2009 will generate £1,139 million of travel industry contracts, revealed independent research by Fusion Communications.

WTM is owned by the world’s leading events organiser Reed Exhibitions (RE), which organises a portfolio of other travel industry events including Arabian Travel Market and International Luxury Travel Market.

RE holds more than 500 events in 38 countries throughout Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific covering 47 industry sectors including aerospace & aviation, healthcare, manufacturing and sport & recreation.

In 2008 RE, part of the Reed Elsevier group, brought together more than six million industry professionals from around the world generating billions of dollars in business.

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