MOSCOW International Travel & Tourism (MITT), the country’s largest travel trade event, attracts over 92,000 buyers from across Russia and is ranked among the world’s top five travel and tourism exhibitions.
The 16th MITT takes place at Expocentr, Moscow, from March 18 to 21, and will feature over 3,000 exhibitors, drawn from 118 countries and regions. More than 70 national/regional tourism boards will be participating, and new destinations include Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Macao, Japan and Hainan. Indonesia and Sri Lanka have increased their stands dramatically as the arrivals from Russia grow every year.
New features this year include a fast track for badges holders, and video festival for national tourism boards on plasma screens.
This year also marks the start of a new partnership between Dubai and the travel trade exhibitions in Russia. The partnership will complement Dubai’s promotional activities in its priority outbound markets of Russia and Ukraine. The two countries contributed almost one third of a million tourists to Dubai in 2007 and both markets continue to produce healthy growth figures.
