World Travel Leaders at WTM to predict the future
London – World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, is marking its 35th event by celebrating the industry’s achievements since 1980 and looking forward to future success with a new sessions and awards ceremony.
World Travel Leaders at WTM will celebrate the industry’s achievements during the event’s lifetime and predict how holidaymakers will travel in the future.
World Travel Market launched in 1980 and has grown to be the event where the industry conducts its business deals. WTM 2013 saw more than 50,000 senior industry executives attend signing business deals worth more than £2.2 billion.
A high-level panel of industry leading executives including British Airways, Chief Commercial Officer, Drew Crawley ; TUI, Deputy Chief Executive, Johan Lundgren ; Hilton Worldwide, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Digital, Geraldine Calpin and Carlson Wagonlit, Senior Director, Solutions Group EMEA, Travel, Geraldine Valenti will debate how the industry will evolve and improve over the next 35 years, with a particular focus on the European inbound and outbound markets.
The panel will then be followed by the World Travel Leaders Awards (formerly the WTM Global Awards) to recognise those individuals and organisations that have contributed the most to the global travel and tourism industry over the lifetime of WTM. The 12 awards are shortlisted by WTM’s leading media partners, with the winners chosen by an elite judging panel comprising of senior industry leaders. World Travel Leaders at WTM is organised by Gisby East.
World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, is the four-day ( November 3 – 6 ,2014 ) business-to-business exhibition for the worldwide travel and tourism industry.
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.
