ASIA Luxury Travel Market (ALTM) is to be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from June 15 to 18 this year following the success of last year’s event.
ALTM, the sister event to the International Luxury Travel Market held annually in Cannes, is dedicated solely to the luxury travel industry in Asia Pacific, an area of vast growth potential.
Organised like a private club, the invitation only event showcases leading luxury travel suppliers to hosted VIP travel buyers. The exhibition takes place in an exclusive environment in which buyers and sellers meet on a unique pre-arranged appointment system.
Ann Marie Meaney, event manager, ALTM said, “The success of Asia Luxury Travel Market 2008 firmly positions the industry’s need for a unique, appointment led luxury travel event. With the current global economic uncertainty, it has never been a more crucial time to place value and importance on the power of face to face business. ALTM 2009 continues to provide an unrivalled intraregional and outbound travel platform of quantifiable opportunities for the Asian Pacific markets.”
Many exhibitors at ALTM 2008 had committed to returning for the 2009 market including The Leading Hotels of the World, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Jumeirah Hotels, Silversea Cruises, Sina Fine Italian Hotels, Amanresorts, Peninsula Hotels, Conde Nast Johansens, Six Senses Resorts & Spas and Design Hotels. Newcomers include Prestige Hotels of the World and Switzerland Tourism.
“Once again as an exhibitor we were impressed with the number of luxury travel agents and tour operators from all over Asia and Australasia. The efficiency of seeing so many quality buyers from such a wide area makes ALTM an essential part of our annual calendar,” said Mark Witney, chief operating officer, Singita Game Reserves.
ALTM 2008 saw exhibitor and buyer numbers double from the previous year with over 17,000 appointments held over three days.
“ALTM provided a great forum for us to meet new buyers from Asia and allowed us to build new relationships with so many interesting people,” said Matthew Upchurch, CEO, Virtuoso.
“We had 24 buyers and over 150 suppliers at ALTM and we welcome every opportunity to interact and work with our existing network. The ALTM team again put together a great event, with top notch networking opportunities and high quality attendees. We are excited with each year to come back to ALTM to solidify our relationships in this region, build new links to these exciting markets and build our knowledge to help with our development and global expansion.”
ALTM is organised by Reed Travel Exhibitions.
