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Another
Opportunity to Showcase
Africa in USA UNICOMM
AND LOS ANGELES TIMES TO
CO-PRODUCE MAJOR WEST
COAST TRAVEL
SHOW Jan.
27-29, 2006 at Long
Beach Convention
Center\ Unicomm,
LLC, organizer of the
highly successful
Adventures in Travel
Expo and the Luxury
Shows, and the Los
Angeles Times, the
largest daily
metropolitan newspaper
in the U.S., today
announced they will
co-produce a new
consumer travel show
combining Unicomm's
Adventures in Travel
Expo and Luxury Shows
with the Los Angeles
Times Travel
Show. The
new event, which will be
named shortly, will be
held Jan. 27-29, 2006 at
the Long Beach
Convention
Center. Unicomm
manages travel events in
six of the top 10 U.S.
travel markets. In
January alone, its
Adventures in Travel
Expos and Luxury Shows
in Chicago, New York and
Washington, D.C. drew
almost 70,000 people and
featured more than 1,000
exhibitors. The
Los Angeles Times Travel
Show, launched in 1995,
has featured more than
1,000 travel-related
companies and, during
the past four years, has
attracted more than
74,000 attendees and
5,000 travel
agents. Under
the
agreement: *
Unicomm will manage
event logistics and
exhibit sales for the
new expanded travel
show, which will include
its Adventures in Travel
Expo and Luxury Shows.
The Adventures in Travel
Expo brings together
destination, resort and
tour operators offering
active and experiential,
eco, nature, and
cultural and educational
travel - everything that
fits under the broad
adventure travel
umbrella. Luxury Shows
showcases a variety of
luxury vacation and
lifestyle experiences,
ranging from European
castle vacations and
exotic wedding and
honeymoon destinations
to world-class spas and
golf courses. *
The Times will develop
programming for all
on-site panel and
workshop sessions, which
will feature some of the
industry's leading
destination and travel
planning experts. It
also will be responsible
for event sponsor
recruitment,
advertising, and
promotion including the
event's in-paper special
section. "If
ever there was an ideal
pairing for an
exposition, this is
certainly it," says John
Golicz, CEO of Unicomm,
organizer of the
Adventures in Travel
Expo and The Luxury
Shows. "Not only does
this make perfect sense
from a business
standpoint, but also in
terms of the value of
what we'll now be able
to offer exhibitors and
travel consumers. By
blending these already
highly successful shows,
we can present to the
Southern California
market an event of
national and even
international
status." "Last
year, Southern
Californians spent more
than $10 billion
annually on travel and
travel-related
activities, making it an
ideal travel market,"
said George Stewart,
senior manager, Los
Angeles Times Consumer
Events. "The resurgence
in national and
international travel
means there's a greater
demand for the type of
expert travel advice
this new event will
offer." The
January 2006 event will
feature: *
pre-event trade seminars
on Jan. 27-28 for travel
agents and industry
professionals; *
panels focusing on a
variety of topics
ranging from cultural
journeys to
intergenerational
travel, and featuring
travel experts such as
European travel guru
Rick Steves; *
hundreds of exhibitors
including visitor
bureaus, tourism boards,
resort and tour
companies and air
carriers; *
indoor rock-climbing
walls, scuba diving and
kayak pools, aerial zip
lines, and musical and
cultural performances;
and *
drawings for free trips,
cruises. For
event sponsorship or
advertising information,
contact Violet Gonzalez,
Los Angeles Times
Consumer Events, at
213-237-2037 or
violet.gonzalez@latimes.com.
Information also is
available at
www.latimes.com/events. For
information about
exhibiting at the event,
contact Jim Forberg,
Unicomm, LLC, at
203-878-2577 or
jforberg@unicomm.org.
Information also is
available at
www.adventureexpo.com. About
Unicomm,
LLC Unicomm,
LLC is an independent
business-to-business
communications company
specializing in
originating and managing
world-class trade shows
and conferences in
underserved and nascent
markets. Located in
Milford, Connecticut,
Unicomm is led by a
seasoned management team
possessing more than 50
years of events industry
experience and an
impressive track record
of dozens of successful
show launches and
hundreds of event
productions. Each year
Unicomm holds varied
events attracting tens
of thousands of people
in key markets including
Human Resources,
Engineering, Defense,
Travel and
others. About
the Los Angeles
Times The
Los Angeles Times, a
Tribune Publishing
company, is the largest
metropolitan daily
newspaper in the country
and the winner of 37
Pulitzer Prizes,
including two this year.
The Times publishes five
daily regional editions,
including the Los
Angeles metropolitan
area, Orange and Ventura
counties, the San
Fernando Valley, and an
Inland Empire edition
covering Riverside and
San Bernardino counties
as well as a National
edition. Additional
information about The
Times is available at
www.latimes.com/mediacenter. |
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