The U.S. Travel Association's IPW is the travel industry's premier international marketplace and the largest generator of travel to the U.S. - it is NOT a typical trade show. In just three days of intensive pre-scheduled business appointments, more than 1,000 U.S. travel organizations from every region of the USA (representing all industry category components), and close to 1,200 international and domestic buyers from more than 70 countries, conduct business negotiations that result in the generation of more than $3.5 billion in future Visit USA travel. At IPW, buyers and sellers are able to conduct business that would otherwise be generated only through an exhaustive number of around-the-world trips.

Location/Date: Las Vegas, NV, United States 06/08/2013 - 06/12/2013

Contacts:
Daniel Giavina: Daniel.Giavina@trade.gov
US Commercial Service San Francisco

INTERNATIONAL

International Tourism And Travel Show – U.S. Pavilion (October 2012)

The U.S. Commercial Service in Montreal is proud to host a U.S. Pavilion at the International Tourism and Travel Show taking place in Montreal, on October 19 - 21, 2012.

For over 20 years, the International Tourism & Travel Show in Montreal, Canada has been the meeting place for travelers, travel agents and industry members. More than 200 countries and destinations will be represented by their tourism offices, tour operators or travel agents. This is a great opportunity for U.S. destinations to attend this unique show in North America. Exhibitors will be able to increase their exposure, create numerous contacts and learn about the newest travel and tourism trends.

Over 37,000 visitors will be attend this 3 day event and over 98% of them intend to purchase their next vacation in the coming year. 35% of visitors intend to purchase a vacation at the show!

Location/Date: Montreal, Canada 10/19/2012 - 10/21/2012

Contact:
Sue Bissi, Travel and Tourism Specialist, at sue.bissi@trade.gov Tel: 514-908-3673

USA Pavilion at 2012 Taipei International Travel Fair (November 2012)

The Taipei International Travel Fair (ITF) is the largest and most important travel and tourism event in Taiwan. In 2010, ITF featured more than 1,000 exhibitors from 60 countries and attracted over 210,000 visitors. The 2012 Taipei ITF is tentatively scheduled in mid November at the Taipei World Trade Center. CS Taipei will work with the Discover America Taiwan Committee to organize a U.S.A. Pavilion and promote U.S. destinations in the show.

Location/Date: Taipei, Taiwan 11/01/2012 - 11/30/2012

Contacts:
Wendy Tien, Taipei
Commercial Specialist
Phone: 886-2-2720-1550 ext 324
Wendy.Tien@trade.gov

Visit USA Booth at Moscow International Ski Salon 2012 (November 2012)

Following the success of last year's project, CS Russia and Visit USA Russia are organizing a joint U.S. booth at Moscow International Ski Salon, the biggest trade show promoting international ski resorts to Russian travel professionals and general audience. In 2011, over 200 companies from 15 countries participated in this show, and the number of visitors exceeded 52,000.

Location/Date: Moscow, Russia 11/02/2012 - 11/04/2012

Contacts:
Gulnara Kenzhebulatova, Moscow
Commercial Specialist
Phone: +7 495 728-5405
Gulnara.Kenzhebulatova@trade.gov

Ken Walsh, Moscow
Commercial Officer
Phone: +7-495-728-5369
Ken.Walsh@trade.gov

Daryana Boyarintseva, Visit USA
Phone: 7 (495) 730-58-99
skisalon@visit-usa.ru

World Travel Market (November 2012)

World Travel Market (WTM) is one of the leading global travel trade shows and a key event for meeting with tour operators, travel agents and travel media representatives. This is an industry/professional, not consumer, event. In 2010, nearly 50,000 travel professionals attended WTM. There were over 5,500 exhibitors including over 200 from the U.S. Year after year WTM proves itself as an event for serious business. WTM will be an excellent opportunity for U.S. destinations seeking expansion or increased visibility on the international stage.

Location/Date: London, United Kingdom 11/05/2012 - 11/08/2012

Contacts:
Danny Dumon, Brussels
Commercial Specialist
Phone: +32-2-811-5476
Danny.Dumon@trade.gov

Stewart Gough, London
Commercial Specialist
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7894 0459
Stewart.Gough@trade.gov

Philoxenia 2012 "Discover America" - CS Athens Literature Promotion Program (November 2012)

Philoxenia, Greece's premier annual international travel and tourism exhibition, takes place every year in Thessaloniki, the second largest city in northern Greece.

The CS Athens Literature Promotion Program (LPP) customizes and expands-upon the traditional catalog show. We select the best trade shows at which to hold the LPP, in sectors that offer the greatest potential for U.S. firms. We know that it is very important that we understand your products or services, and your objectives for participating in this event, so before the event we will ask you to complete a Company Profile, detailing your products or services, your competitive advantages, your objectives for participating in the LPP, the most important criteria that you are looking for in an overseas partner, and other important information. We will then call you to review your Profile and answer any questions you may have. All of this information will better enable us to discuss your products or services with visitors to the event and to obtain the right information from them.

CS Athens' participation in Philoxenia, which started in 2010 for the first time, through its “Discover America” Literature Promotion Program was a resounding success, generating Export Successes for the participating U.S. companies. In addition to the display of U.S. companies' literature in our booth, CS Athens will arrange for a number of promotional activities for U.S. participants before, during and after the show.

Before Philoxenia, CS Athens will send press releases to all major travel media, major tour operators and travel agents, and to the Philoxenia organizers. During Philoxenia, CS Athens will distribute press releases with the profiles of U.S. participating companies to travel journalists that participated in the press conference given by the Minister of Tourism. And following Philoxenia, CS Athens will arrange with internet travel sites to upload information on our participation. After the event, CS Athens will provide the trade leads generated at the show to the U.S. participants and send a follow-up message to the firms we met with, reminding them of our meeting.

New Service Added: Philoxenia Organizers will again invite foreign tour operators that will be available for pre-arranged one-on-one meetings. CS Athens plans to meet with and promote the U.S. participants to these tour operators.

Participation fee is $300 per U.S. entity. This is a very popular event so be sure to reserve your space right away!

Location/Date: Athens, Greece 11/22/2012 - 11/25/2012

Pre-Register: https://emenuapps.ita.doc.gov/ePublic/newRegistration.jsp?SmartCode=3K2R

Contacts:
David McNeill, Athens
Senior Commercial Officer
Phone: 30-210-720-2302, 2303
David.McNeill@trade.gov

Irene Ralli, Athens
Commercial Specialist
Phone: 30-210-720-2224; 2225
Irene.Ralli@trade.gov

Maria Georgousi, Athens
Commercial Assistant
Phone: 30-210-720-2303

U.S. Educational Travel Seminar in Osaka (December 2012)

The U.S. Commercial Service Osaka will organize a “U.S. Educational Travel Seminar in Osaka" to showcase destinations suitable for educational travel on December 5, 2012 at the U.S. Consulate General, Osaka-Kobe. We would like to invite you to join the seminar.

School trips are a unique part of Japanese education and culture. Over 3 million students participate in school trips each year. Given this volume of school travel, Japan's educational travel market is significant. U.S. locations have good potential as destinations for school trips and especially their off-shoot: English language study tours. While the number of students participating in English language study tours is smaller than school trips, the average cost and length of stay for these tours are higher and longer than school trips. Please see the attached report on the educational travel market for further information.

Although we learn English from the 7th grade in Japan, it is for examinations and not as a communication tool. Therefore, few people can speak foreign language, unfortunately. Cultivating “global human resources” is one of the top priorities for Japan and local governments. The excellent international exchange programs are one of the key elements for high schools to attract students. For examples, Osaka prefecture started a new program called “Osaka Global School” and will send about 50 high school students to San Francisco for two weeks.

In April 2012, we conducted a research on the international programs at 162 Osaka public high schools and found that over 100 schools (gross) sent students to overseas as a school trip or a language study tour in the past several years. However, 50 schools visited Australia/New Zealand while 15 schools visited the States including Guam.

There are over 330 public high schools and approximately 280 private junior high schools and high schools in the Kansai area. (Kansai includes Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, Shiga, Nara and Wakayama prefectures here.)

Location/Date: Osaka, Japan 12/05/2012 - 12/05/2012

Contacts:
Hirono Taki, Osaka-Kobe
Commercial Specialist
Phone: 81-6-6315-5959
Hirono.Taki@trade.gov

SATTE 2013 (January 2013)

SATTE 2013 will be the 20th edition and it is targeted to have over 16,500 sqm gross space and will feature exhibitors from 50 countries including India with an estimated 6000+ travel agents and tour operators from all over the world. SATTE 2013 will also feature its companion event SATTE Mumbai - West which will be held from January 21-22, 2013 at the World Trade Center, Mumbai, India.

Location/Date: New Delhi, India 01/16/2013 - 01/22/2013

Contacts:
Helen Simpson-Davis, Trade Event Programs
Senior International Trade Specialist
Phone: 202-482-1882
Helen.Simpson-Davis@trade.gov

P Srinivas, Mumbai
Senior Commercial Specialist
Phone: 91-22-2672-4152
P.Srinivas@trade.gov

Sandeep Maini, New Delhi
Senior Commercial Specialist
Phone: 91-11-23472222
Sandeep.Maini@trade.gov

Sajid Desai, UBM India Pvt. Ltd
Phone: 91 22 6612 2600
sajid.desai@ubm.com

Visit USA Seminar 2013 (January 2013)

Location/Date: Moevenpick Hotel and Conference Center in Zürich-Regensdorf, Switzerland January 30, 2013

To register: http://www.vusa.ch/veranstaltungen.asp?id=1&id1=36&rub=anm&typ=Exhibitor

For more information about Visit USA: http://www.vusa.ch/

Visit USA Seminar 2013 (January 2013)

CS Vienna is organizing in cooperation with the Visit USA Committee the annual Visit USA Seminar, which is scheduled to take place on January 31, 2013 at the Courtyard Hotel in Vienna. We expect approximately 25 U.S. travel suppliers and an audience of about 120 travel agents to participate at this event.

Location/Date: Vienna, Austria 01/31/2013 - 01/31/2013

Contacts:
Ingeborg Doblinger, Vienna
Commercial Specialist
Phone: 43-1-31339-2120
Ingeborg.Doblinger@trade.gov

ITB Berlin (March 2013)

The whole variety of travelling is present at ITB Berlin: Destinations, tour operators, booking systems, carriers, hotels and all other suppliers who want to embellish their customers' most beautiful weeks of the year. ITB Berlin brightens your business.

Location/Date: Berlin, Germany 03/06/2013 - 03/10/2013

Contacts:
Hannah Kamenetsky, Frankfurt
Principal Commercial Officer
Phone: 49 69 7535 3120
Hannah.Kamenetsky@trade.gov

U.S. Pavilion at MITT (March 2013)

MITT is one of the world's most influential exhibitions serving the travel & tourism industry and the largest event of its kind in Russia. With over 3,000 exhibiting companies from 189 countries & regions and 79,930 visitors (73% trade) and 475 media participants, it is the essential travel trade show in Russia.

Location/Date: Moscow, Russia 03/20/2013 - 03/23/2013

Contacts:
Gulnara Kenzhebulatova, Moscow
Commercial Specialist
Phone: +7 495 728-5405
Gulnara.Kenzhebulatova@trade.gov

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