The 3rd Travel Trade Athens, a signature travel trade annual workshop, opens its doors this Monday April 27 at the City of Athens Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB). This year’s Travel Trade Athens gathers together 80 select buyers, including tour operators, travel agents, and a high proportion of MICE organizers from around 20 countries such as the USA, Australia, Brazil, India, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Romania. The event provides a unique opportunity to its hosted buyers to develop first hand business relationships with some 160 leading tourism and travel suppliers, participating this year, with pre-scheduled B2B meetings. During the two previous Travel Trade Athens workshops there were more than 3,500 individual meetings between buyers and Greek suppliers. The increased interest in attending Travel Trade Athens demonstrates “that our long-term strategy to develop tourism, and the targeted actions of the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency and Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau, are bearing fruit”, said Athens Mayor Yiorgos Kaminis. “Tourism is a pillar of the economy in Athens and the whole of Greece. Through careful planning, research, and partnerships, we are taking advantage of every opportunity to support and develop the tourism sector”, he added.
The event is organized in cooperation with the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA) and supported by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), World Youth Student and Educational (WYSE) Travel Confederation, and Meeting Professionals International (MPI), and Adventure Travel Trade Association.