SINGAPORE, Oct. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating its 10th anniversary as Asia's Leading Travel Trade Show, ITB Asia 2017, organised by Messe Berlin (Singapore) Pte Ltd, has opened its doors today at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands.
An expected of more than 11,000 delegates will be able to look forward to an exciting exhibition event and conference programme. The event will feature its strongest line-up of exhibitors and speakers, as well as many firsts for the travel trade show.
"We are immensely proud to be celebrating a decade of ITB Asia. While ITB Asia has grown and changed significantly over the past ten years, our key objectives have not changed -- to bring together leading buyers and exhibitors from around the world, and to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our customers and delegates. Already, ITB Asia 2017 is expected to top the success of ITB Asia 2016. We have 940 exhibitors in attendance and 951 buyers from the MICE, Corporate and Leisure sector, putting Singapore at the centre of all this activity," said Katrina Leung, Executive Director of Messe Berlin (Singapore), the organiser of ITB Asia.
Ahead of the milestone event, the exhibition space at ITB Asia 2017 had completely sold out in August after it garnered the highest number of exhibitor bookings, attributed to a tremendous surge in booth bookings from the global market. Overall, BRICS economies exceeded exhibitor booking growth rates with South Africa, Russia and Brazil leading the trend. While African and Russian markets make a strong showing at this year's show, North Asiafeatures prominently with a strong showing by Japan and South Korea.
Running parallel with the exhibition, the conference programme will look to "The Future of Travel". The three-day conference presents an extensive programme of presentations and discussions, and is the most comprehensive line-up to date with over 6,140 conference minutes compared to just half of that in 2013. A two day keynote line-up features IBM Asia Pacific and Google on the latest trends in Artificial Intelligence, Ctrip on its global strategy as well as a panel with leading online travel agents such as iJTB, Expedia, trivago, Tidesquare and Cleartrip.
A number of firsts at this year's show:
For more information on ITB Asia 2017, please visit www.itb-asia.com.
ITB Asia 2018 is now available for stand booking and interested exhibitors may email exhibitor@itb-asia.com.
About ITB Asia 2017
ITB Asia 2017 will take place at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, from 25 - 27 October. It is organised by Messe Berlin (Singapore) Pte Ltd and supported by the Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau. The event will feature hundreds of exhibiting companies from the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, covering not only the leisure market, but also corporate and MICE travel. Exhibitors from every sector of the industry, including destinations, airlines and airports, hotels and resorts, theme parks and attractions, inbound tour operators, inbound DMCs, cruise lines, spas, venues, other meeting facilities and travel technology companies are all expected to attend.
Press contacts
Messe Berlin
Julia Wegener
Press and Public Relations Manager
Corporate Communication
ITB Berlin
PR Manager Julia Wegener
Messedamm 22 D-14055 Berlin
(+49) 30 3038-2269
j.wegener@messe-berlin.de
www.messe-berlin.com
ITB Asia PR Contact for the Asian Region
Amanda Lee / Sabrina Ghazali
Klareco Communications
(+65) 6333 3449
alee@klarecocomms.com / sghazali@klarecocomms.com
