The leading tourism exhibition in the North-West of Russia INWETEX – CIS Travel Market 2019 was held in St. Petersburg for the 27th time. The exhibition brought together tourism market professionals from Russian regions and foreign countries interested in new partners and business contacts.
Solution The organizers decided to hold INWETEX 2019 in September in connection with the holding at that time in St. Petersburg, including in the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Center, of a key event for the global tourism industry – the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
The successive holding of the UNWTO General Assembly, the international tourism exhibition INWETEX and the travel forum Saint Petersburg Travel HUB made Saint Petersburg in September 2019 the center of professional tourism activity in Russia and the world, created unique conditions for the exchange of experience, international cooperation and effective interaction in the global tourism and hospitality industry.
September 12-13 INWETEX–CIS Travel Market 2019 picked up the tourist "baton" of developing the tourism and hospitality industry. The INWETEX exhibition exposition and the professional "Laboratory" - TRAVEL LAB were unfolding in the Pavilion of the NKVC "EXPOFORUM", where business leaders, leading industry experts and government representatives discussed the problems and prospects of developing tourism and the hospitality industry.
The main exhibition exposition of INWETEX - CIS Travel Market 2019 provided visitors with the opportunity to meet and communicate with the most active market participants: national tourist offices of foreign countries, industry committees and tourism departments of the regions of Russia, tourist information centers, tourism industry associations, tour operators and travel agencies, accommodation facilities, educational institutions, carriers, transport and cruise companies, museums and places of tourist interest, technology companies, and tourism media.
In particular, the exhibition guests got acquainted with new tourist offers from Greece, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, China, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Finland and other foreign destinations, as well as regions and subjects of the Russian Federation: the Republic of Dagestan, Stavropol Krai, Vladimir, Leningrad, Pskov, Rostov, Sverdlovsk, Tula and Tyumen regions.
The constant interest of professional visitors was aroused by specialized sections of the exhibition program INWETEX – CIS Travel Market 2019: “Resorts”, “Medical tourism” and “MICE industry”.
In focus of the specialized exhibition "Resorts" - the broad potential of the health resort complex in Russia and foreign countries with an emphasis on the development of domestic tourism, Medical tourism Today it is recognized as one of the most promising elements of the tourism business: at the thematic exhibition of the same name, tourism business professionals were met by leading providers of medical services from the Tyumen Medical Cluster, Stavropol Krai and the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Specialized exhibition "MICE industry" united the leaders of congress services of the North-West and became a platform for communication with potential clients. The flagships of this direction were the Museum and Exhibition Center - Multimedia Historical Park "Russia - My History", as well as the "Baltic Shooting Center".
For the first time, the exhibition featured a presentation of the tourism potential of the southernmost region of Russia – the Republic of Dagestan. In recent years, Dagestan has seen a boom in the development of tourism infrastructure: the construction of hotels, sanatoriums, medical centers, and related infrastructure. The Republic's attractions: its natural sites, sea, mountains, and many cultural and historical monuments give Dagestan a significant advantage in the competitive struggle for its tourists.
On September 13, a field trip to the Museum and Exhibition Center - Multimedia Historical Park "Russia - My History" was organized for tourism industry professionals, where everyone could get acquainted with the history of the project and unique Digital solutions for multimedia expositions, largely innovative, created using video infographics, animation, 3D modeling and digital reconstructions. The partner of the excursion was the transport company "Interservice" - one of the leaders in the field of passenger transportation and transport services in St. Petersburg.
September 13 Two relevant industry events were organised on the exhibition grounds for tourism and hospitality industry professionals:
- St. Petersburg Hotel Forum, which in recent years has become an authoritative platform for meaningful dialogue between experts.
- The only legal seminar in St. Petersburg by Georgy Mokhov, one of the leading experts in Russia in the field of legal support for the tourism business. "Regulatory framework for tourism activities. Prospects. Trends. Legislative initiatives 2019". "Electronic document management, electronic travel voucher. Prospects for implementation and regulatory standards. Requirements for contracts in electronic form" - these are just two topics from the list covered at the seminar.
The networking format allowed the INWETEX business program participants to begin discussing new promising joint projects already within the framework of conference events.
Source: trn-news.ru