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21 Apr 2010

WTM Appoints TTG’s Deborah Dewe as Head of Sales

World Travel Market, the premier global event for the travel industry, has appointed UK Travel Trade Gazette’s Deborah Dewe as it new Head of Sales.

Deborah joins WTM from her position as UK TTG Sales Director. She takes up the WTM Head of Sales position made vacant when Simon Press was promoted to WTM Exhibition Director in January.

Deborah has almost 15 years of travel industry and sales experience starting her career in 1996 as a Specialist Travel Consultant at Travelbag, after completing a Diploma in Business and Travel at Hove College.

She then joined Flightbookers as Sales Manager before leaving in 2000 to embark on 10 highly successful years at TTG, which cumulated in 2008 when Deborah was appointed Sales Director with responsibility for all the title’s revenue streams.

At World Travel Market Deborah will be responsible for heading up the sales team and ensuring that WTM sales are driven strategically according to the direction of the event. She will be responsible for all revenue streams across Reed Travel Exhibition’s flagship event.

World Travel Market Exhibition Director Simon Press said: “I’m pleased to announce Deborah’s appointment to the position of WTM Head of Sales.

“She brings with her a wealth of travel industry experience, knowledge and contacts which will help the event’s evolution as host venue ExCeL – London expands in 2010.”

Deborah Dewe added: “I’m delighted to be joining World Travel Market and look forward to helping it cement its position as the premier global event for the travel industry.”

Deborah starts at World Travel Market May 17th reporting to Simon Press.

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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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