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Africa
Travel Association at World Travel Market in
London, November Nov. 10-13
More
information to come.
 You
are invited to the following free events at the
World Travel Market in London at the ExCel Centre.
Activities are expected to exceed last year's
event.
FRIENDSHIP CORPS
SUMMIT
Tuesday,
12 November 11:30 am -12:00 noon, Central Feature
Area. Please join us at the Friendship Corps Summit
on the Center Stage, Central Feature
Area.
1. Award presented
to Dr. Mamdouh El Beltagui, Minister of Tourism,
Egypt
2. Introduction of Members of the Board of
Advisors, Friendship Corps
3. Presentation of 2003 Friendship Corps Pilot
Programs
4. Introduction of ITMIC 2003 Hosts . 5. Launch of
MICE INTERNATIONAL
Review of 2002 World
Travel Market Activities
MARKETING TO AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS AND
CORPORATIONS
Tuesday, 12 November, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, Room:
City Side 7
Andrea Sigler, PhD, CIMPA, Louis D'Amore, IIPT,
Mira Berman, ATA
Mira Berman.....
Louis D'Amore
American associations
and corporations spend over US $110 billion in
meetings annually. In this session, you will
understand how US organizers select meeting venues
and local partners. Currently, there are
approximately 45,000 associations based in the USA,
each organizing anywhere from 5 - 120 meetings each
year. The majority are located in Washington DC
(Association Capital of the USA), Chicago and New
York. About 46% of them organize international
meetings, according to a State of the Industry
Report by Deloitte and Touche.
Dr. Sigler will give an
overview of the American association and corporate
meetings market after which she will interview
members of her panel consisting of association
executives and corporate meeting planners. There
will be opportunity for questions and answers.
Attend this session and learn how to get your share
of this huge market.
HOW TO ORGANIZE AN
ASSOCIATION IN YOUR AREA
Tuesday, 12 November - 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Room:
City Side 7
Linda Pereira, CIMPA Portugal Chapter, Jim Powers,
SKAL, Jens Friis Jensen, WTO Business
Council
Networking is 1) Showing Up
2) Participating 3) Giving of your time, contacts
and knowledge, 4) Follow -up, Follow -up, Follow
-up. Get involved in an organization. Or better
still, organize a local chapter. It is the best way
to develop relationships now with future clients.
Friends buy from friends. A panel of association
executives will show you how.
WORLD TOURISM AWARD
2002
Monday 14:30-15:00, Central Feature
Area
The 5th annual World Tourism
Award 2002 will honor the New York Academy of
Travel And Tourism, Virtual Enterprises
International, Institute For Virtual Enterprise-
Kingsborough, City University of New York, in
recognition of "the outstanding vision and
partnership between the New York City Board of
Education, Kingsborough-The City University of New
York and the Travel and Tourism Industry for
inspiring and training high school and college
students for careers in Tourism through classroom
study, virtual enterprises and
internships."
PEACE THROUGH TOURISM
Monday 2;00 - 2:30 pm, Central Feature
Area
'Peace Through Tourism: The
Road to the Second Global Summit' will be featured
at WTM Monday 11 November, 14:00hrs on the Central
Feature Area. The Second Global Summit on Peace
Through Tourism is being held 5-8 February 2003, at
the UN Conference Centre, Geneva,
Switzerland.
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