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„Where is tourism heading?” Answers to this question are provided in the latest ITB World Travel Trends Report 2017/2018. Destination trends, overtourism, travel risk, muslim travel and luxury tourism are in the spotlight of this years report. Explore the top trends of the global travel industry!
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| KEY TOPIC OVERTOURISM AT ITB DESTINATION DAY 1, HALL 7.1A | |
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| EXCLUSIVE STUDY – Your participation is highly appreciated!
Is there a way of too much tourism?
We’re keen to hear your opinion on the phenomenon of Overtourism. The results of the study by DGT&AIEST will be presented on
7 March. at the ITB Destination Day 1, Auditorium New York 3.
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Our top speakers on 07 March at ITB Destination Day 1, hall 7.1a:
| • | Mato Franković, Major, City of Dubrovnik |
| • | Gloria Guevara Manzo, President & CEO, World Travel & Tourism Council |
| • | Alexander Schwarz, General Manager Germany, Austria & Switzerland, Airbnb |
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| CO-HOST 2018: WORLD TOURISM CITIES FEDERATION (WTCF) | |
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| IT'S TEASER TIME! | |
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| Today: Jane Jie Sun, CEO, Ctrip. com International Ltd.
Wouldn’t you agree that travel brings the world closer together? Find out what take our ITB Future Day platinum sponsor Ctrip, a leading travel service provider in China, has on this topic. Stop by hall 7.1b on 07 March at 11.00 and listen to their CEO’s keynote speech: Travel - A Gateway to Global Peace And Prosperity.
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| ITB MICE & BUSINESS TRAVEL FORUM – 08 MARCH, HALL 7.1A | |
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| What is your secret of success?
This year’s ITB MICE Forum powered by VDVO will focus on "Successful Events": Generation Y, interactivity and new event formats.
Our official ITB MICE Partner VDVO also invites you to join the exclusive ITB MICE Night for mingling with industry colleagues!
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Business Travel at it's best
The ITB Business Travel Forum - powered by VDR - will address the New Generation’s desire to be completely connected, flexible and mobile while travelling, how Amazon’s Alexa books your rental car and why data security focusses increasingly on business travel.
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Special travel offer for participants of the Business Travel Forum!
Our tip: Comfortable and relaxing travel with a low carbon footprint. Book now to get the best price train ticket with Deutsche Bahn! Your Event Ticket for the ITB Business Travel Forum at a single nationwide price, available at every DB train station.
Further information available here:
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| BE WELL-PREPARED FOR YOUR CONVENTION PARTICIPATION! | |
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| The majority of sessions will be translated simultaneously. Since most of you probably already travel with headphones we kindly ask you to bring your own earphones if you would like to listen to a session with German speakers in English. That will help us immensely to reduce waste!
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| You can’t make it to all sessions? Don’t worry, we got you covered! We'll be live streaming the majority of sessions:
itb-convention. com/LiveStream. Also, use our official hashtag #itbcon2018 to join the conversation and follow @ITBBerlin for quick updates from ITB Berlin.
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| eTRAVEL WORLD START UP PITCH | |
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| ITB BUYERS CIRCLE - FINAL CALL REGISTRATION | |
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| Are you a top buyer? Become an ITB Buyers Circle member and take advantage of a variety of benefits, like free entry to ITB Berlin/ ITB Convention, participation at the ITB Speed Networking, access to the ITB BC Lounge, free meeting rooms.
Let’s circle!
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| MEDICAL TOURISM | |
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| The Medical Tourism segment is growing since it's been first established at ITB Berlin 2017: We welcome our new exibitors in the Medical Tourism Pavilion, in hall 21b (new location!), from the ITB Berlin Partner Region Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Berlin, the Dominican Republic, Turkey & Croatia. Italian Tuscany is also presenting itself for the first time in this segment and is partner of the 1st ITB Medical Networking Night at ITB Friday.
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| LGBT TRAVEL | |
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| The Tourism Authority of Thailand is our new ITB LGBT Presenting Partner in Hall 21b and ITB LGBT Supporting Partner is Illinois Office of Tourism and Choose Chicago. You will once again have the opportunity to meet Gay & Lesbian travel experts from all over the world, listen to highly qualified presentations and join networking events, e.g. at the renown Gay ITB Party on Wednesday evening.
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| EXHIBITION GROUNDS | |
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| Know where to go!
Plan your onsite-routes at the ITB Berlin fairgrounds ahead of your arrival! In order to find what you're looking for you can use our map of the exhibition grounds.
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| BE SMART - REGISTER ONLINE! | |
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| Make sure to get your trade visitor pass online before departing to Berlin. Just log on to our ticket shop, choose your ticket, pay and personalize it.
This saves you about one third of the regular ticket price as well as waiting time at the cashier on-site.
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