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September 2011 News TravelRave returns to Singapore in October 2011 TravelRave represents the Singapore Tourism Board's vision to create Asia's first mega travel & tourism trade festival for the Asia Pacific region and is the only comprehensive regional platform of its kind that brings together the entire spectrum of the Asian travel and tourism industry in one week. Leveraging the continued and robust growth of the leisure and business travel industry in Asia, TravelRave provides a prime platform for business leaders and professionals in the travel and tourism industry to convene, network, share knowledge and insights, discover new business opportunities and celebrate Asian tourism at its best. In addition, with top hospitality schools like UNLV and Cornell, nine out of 15 top hospitality companies anchoring their regional headquarters in Singapore and a strong representation of key international travel trade associations based here, Singapore is already a well-established tourism hub with a vibrant ecosystem. TravelRave will serve to reinforce this position as the travel and tourism business hub for Asia. Events TravelRave 2011 – 'What's new' Bigger and better this year, TravelRave 2011 has three new events under its umbrella - Asia Pacific Hotel and Tourism Investment Conference, Asia for Asia and the Cornell Hotel Society Asia Pacific Regional Conference, bringing the total number of events to nine. The 2011 line up of events include: ------------------------------------ Asia Travel Leaders Summit 4 18-19 October 2011) – Created and spearheaded by the Singapore Tourism Board, this second edition of the Asia Travel Leaders Summit will continue to gather the leading minds and voices of the Asian travel and tourism industry and inspire a purposeful dialogue in response to key issues facing the industry. Intended to be an intimate, two-way conversation between the invited speakers and delegates, the summit seeks to help lay the foundations for collaborations and initiatives in response to key issues discussed. Attendance is by invitation only and delegates at the summit will comprise of eminent business leaders from within as well as outside of the travel and tourism industry. ------------------------------------ Aviation Outlook Asia (20- 21 October 2011) – Aviation Outlook Asia is Asia Pacific's leading C-level platform where issues and challenges that play a critical role in driving the industry's growth and profitability are identified and discussed. This industry leadership forum will address issues and challenges critical to the industry's innovation and growth in the world's fastest growing aviation market – the Asia Pacific. More than 300 aviation CEOs and senior executives will share strategic discussions and candid thoughts on new market opportunities and growth, technology implementation, revenue optimisation, equity management and financing, operational productivity and effectiveness as well as environmental sustainability. ------------------------------------ ITB Asia (19-21 October 2011) – ITB Asia, The Trade Show for the Asian Travel Market, is a three day B2B trade show and convention, which is held annually in Singapore. This is where international exhibitors of all sectors of the travel-value chain, Asia Pacifi c's leading companies and emerging small and medium sized enterprises meet with top buyers from the MICE, Leisure and Corporate Travel markets. ITB Asia features the full range of travel products, services and goods, and at the same time functions as a knowledge platform for the industry along with the concurrently held ITB Asia Convention and partner events. ------------------------------------ Web In Travel Conference 2011 (17-19 October 2011) - The Web In Travel (WIT) Conference, in its seventh year, is the largest, most diverse and highest level gathering of travel industry professionals in the Asian travel distribution, marketing and technology sector. The event attracts top speakers, industry veterans, investors, entrepreneurs, marketing experts and next gen leaders all wanting to infl uence the future of the travel industry in the most exciting region in the world. An intense one-and-a-half day WIT conference, 18-19 October at Suntec Singapore will be preceded by specialist WIT activities such as WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp (Oct 17) and followed by the ITB Asia Clinics powered by WIT from 20-21 October. ------------------------------------ World Savers Congress (October 2011) – This annual global thought-leader summit aims to discuss initiatives to limit the environmental impact of tourism, and to improve the health, education and economic well-being of communities worldwide. Now in its fi fth year, this is only the second time in