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Arabian Travel Market is the industry's leading travel and tourism exhibition dedicated to unlocking business potential within the Middle East and pan-Arab region. Uniting key market players from six continents, the exhibition includes four days of meetings, seminars, press conferences and networking opportunities.

Top Ten Facts

  1. 22,000 travel professionals, representing over 100 countries, attended Arabian Travel Market 2007. More than 2,000 companies were showcased.

  2. Close to 1,000 international journalists attend each year.

  3. We guarantee that 125 top level buyers who have never attended before will be at the event.

  4. Arabian Travel Market is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

  5. This is a growth travel market. UNWTO's Tourism 2020 Vision forecasts international arrivals to the Middle East will reach nearly 1.6 billion by the year 2020.

  6. Arabian Travel Market’s Seminar Programme attracts industry heavyweights.

  7. Arabian Travel Market celebrates its 15th year in 2008

  8. The New Frontiers Award is run alongside Arabian Travel Market. We also support Just a Drop.

  9. We recognise senior buyers, awarding them with VIP status through Meridian Club membership.

  10. The region’s consumers attend on day four.

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In the news

 

ATM and ATN launch travel agent day

Arabian Travel Market (ATM) organiser Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) has joined forces with Arabian Travel News to launch the inaugural Travel Agents' Day at the May edition of ATM.

"The focus of the day is educational, offering agents the chance to meet tourism boards to learn about each destination, as well as topical seminars," explained ATM marketing manager Lucie James. "However, it's not all work; there is some fun involved with promotions and prize draws."
These will include a Travel Agent Passport Competition sponsored by ATN whereby agents are given a passport featuring competitions run by several suppliers.

To enter the competitions, travel agents must visit the respective exhibitor stand, meet with the exhibitor and then get their passport stamped. Competition winners will be announced at the end of the day.

The move to get travel agents more involved in ATM comes as the event celebrates its 15th anniversary.

"As we reach this milestone we are very aware that we must continue to improve the content and quality of the exhibition and our aim is to now make sure that each year for the next 15 years, ATM is a must attend event," said RTE company group exhibitions director Mark Walsh.

Walsh also confirmed that the hosted buyer programme would see 125 international leisure, corporate and MICE buyers attend the show, all of whom, he said, were first-time visitors. And, with education a key theme at this year's ATM, RTE has also boosted the seminar programme to include presentations from a raft of "top industry pioneers", according to ATM marketing executive Sarah Kitley.

 

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