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60 WORLD TRAVEL MARKET ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE 6 SECONDS How do buyers find out if they are eligible for WTM Buyers' Club Membership? Buyers can register at wtmlondon.com/register as a visitor. The application will then be reviewed to see if they qualify for WTM Buyers' Club status. Buyers will be emailed to confirm their status. WITH SIMON PRESS 7 What will the event programme look like at WTM 2013? There will be sessions on a wide range of sectors including aviation, hotels, social media and responsible tourism. Last year more than 15,000 delegates attended 127 sessions. Reed Travel Exhibitions, Director, World Travel Market, Simon Press previews WTM 2013. Press discusses WTM's vital role in facilitating travel industry business and new initiatives at this year's event. 1 What will WTM 2013 look like? WTM 2013 will be the biggest and best yet with two great new initiatives taking place. Firstly, the Travel Tech Show at WTM is launched as a travel technology focused event alongside WTM and A Taste of ILTM at WTM will increase the amount of luxury business taking place on the exhibition floor. 2 Why must Asian exhibitors, buyers and visitors attend WTM 2013? World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, is the event where the industry conducts its business deals. WTM 2012 will generate a massive 17.8bn Yuan (£1.8bn) in business deals for all exhibitors, in contracts signed at the event or generated from WTM 2012 before WTM 2013, with the industry's senior buyers from WTM Buyers' Club. WTM 2013 is poised to facilitate even more business. 3 How much business can Asian exhibitors expect to conduct? Asian exhibitors can expect to conduct a great deal of business at WTM 2013. WTM 2012 will generate more than 2.3bn Yuan (£253m) for exhibitors from Asia/ Pacific/ Indian Ocean and the India regions. This year we are seeing resurgence in Asian airlines with new exhibitors Royal Brunei Airlines and Garuda Indonesia taking stands at this year's event. They are two of 13 new Asian exhibitors signed up for WTM 2013. 4 Tell me more about WTM Buyers' Club? WTM Buyers' Club - the leading global business network: making contacts, concluding deals - is the original buyers club for the REGISTER NOW wtmlondon.com WTM. Means business global industry's senior buyers. For the past 21 years it was called WTM Meridian Club. 5 What opportunities are there for exhibitors and WTM Buyers' Club members to negotiate and conduct business at WTM 2013? There is a whole portfolio of business and networking opportunities across the four days of WTM, starting with WTM Speed Networking before the exhibition opens on Monday 4 November. On the final morning there is the Networking Breakfast followed by a second WTM Speed Networking event to initiate post-WTM 2013 deals. Last year 310 buyers and 867 exhibitors started negotiations at WTM Speed Networking events. On the second evening there is a networking reception for WTM Buyers' Club members and exhibitors. WTM Official Premier Partner "WTM is the event where the travel industry conducts its business deals. WTM 2012's exhibitors will sign deals with WTM Buyers' Club (formerly WTM Meridian Club) members worth £1,860m. WTM 2013 is poised to facilitate even more business for the industry." SIMON PRESS WTM 8 9 Where can Asian visitors register for WTM 2013? Visit wtmlondon.com/register Where can people interested in attending WTM 2013 get further information? Visit wtmlondon.com for more information on exhibiting, visiting, the event programme and travel to WTM. WTM Official Media Partner