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The ITB is without
a doubt the largest travel trade show in the world, and takes
place every year in March in Berlin.
The show is
enormous, and covers pretty much every aspect of tourism, with
trade visitors from every sector of the tourism industry, such
as tourism organizations, tour operators, agency counter
staff, hotel managers, website publishers, and
conventional world media.
The Exhibitors at the ITB come from all
sectors of the international travel and tourism industry and
include government tourism offices, national and regional
tourism organizations, tour operators, hotels, airline
carriers, insurance companies, communication and information
systems, travel agencies, publishing, and dot com companies.
The ITB also has consumer days where consumers are allowed in
to see what the worlds travel industry has to offer.
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We can not
exaggerate how big this show is, according to a Berlin
taxi
driver we asked it is the biggest in Berlin and the
one that brings the taxis the most business. So if you
are attending make sure that you have comfortable
shoes, as it stretches over an area so big the
organisers even have shuttle buses which run between
the halls. |
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As if this
were not enough to keep you occupied and probably help
you loose a pound or two running from one booth to
another, the show also offers many other activities.
Seminars, symposia, workshops and working groups all
take place, and because the worlds travel industry is
under one roof with experts from all the
different fields related to the international travel
industry, their value is very high. |
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This is the biggest
of the biggest, and to quote a friend from the industry,
"If you are in the travel industry and not at the ITB,
are you really in the travel industry....."
The
2008 ITB took place between 5-9 March,
2008. Read
about the 2008 Event. The 2009 ITB will be held between 11-15 March,
2009.
See
also:
Travel
Trade Shows - Calendar of Events
and all the
Latest
Travel News
about the
ITB,
such as their new
Travel
Bloggers Summit,
and the
Record
Numbers of Travel Technology Exhibitors expected in 2008.
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