The World Travel and Tourism Council just finished their annual summit 2019 in the Spanish City of Seville last Friday.
A record number of delegates listened to presentations from fellow top leaders of the largest industry in the world. All of this was streamed live to the world. However, the conversation everyone had waited for with former US President Barak Obama was excluded. Perhaps the $4,000.00 price tag for non-members required the organizer to shield the former popular American president from public listeners.
eTN reached out to about 100 of the CEO’s, delegates and ministers that attended the 2-day event last week and everyone said the networking opportunities at WTTC summits was the real value for them to attend such a high profile event. See and to be seen is the true perk here. Top travel- industry people meet with other top CEO’s in the hallways and coffee shops or hotel suites. Some delegates only attended the opening ceremony and the Obama session but were roaming to shake hands with business partners, ministers and even heads of state.
Big business is done this way. It starts often with an exchange of ideas and can trickle down to billion-dollar transactions.
A WTTC summit is also the place a CEO can have a cup of coffee with a fellow CEO from a competing company.
Hosting the WTTC Summit is expensive and seems to have a short life span as well unless the host destination is also willing to spend marketing Dollars to reach out to media and get the desired attention of the world.
This did not happen in Seville. Many requests from eTurboNews to include a series of interviews and destination coverage was never responded to by Seville Tourism Officials. Seville as a destination could have easily shined with global visibility.
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WHAT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS ARTICLE:
- Hosting the WTTC Summit is expensive and seems to have a short life span as well unless the host destination is also willing to spend marketing Dollars to reach out to media and get the desired attention of the world.
- A WTTC summit is also the place a CEO can have a cup of coffee with a fellow CEO from a competing company.
- eTN reached out to about 100 of the CEO’s, delegates and ministers that attended the 2-day event last week and everyone said the networking opportunities at WTTC summits was the real value for them to attend such a high profile event.