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Review on COTTM 2010

World Travel Online 1-May-2010 Refer a friend Printable version

Brief: Review on COTTM 2010

China Outbound Travel & Tourism Market (COTTM), the only business to business outbound event in China dedicated to the Chinese outbound travel & tourism industry recently held its 6th edition of the annual trade show in Beijing, China. For the first time, COTTM welcomed 55 different countries and destinations including Caribbean, Bhutan, Croatia, Israel as well as Indonesia & Tanzania Pavilion to the exhibition.

The opening ceremony of COTTM

Over 3,000 Chinese travel trade professionals convened at COTTM to meet exhibitors from all over the world, to source new products and destinations for the rapidly expanding Chinese outbound travel market.


Chinese tour operators are eagerly searching destination resources during the fair	Chinese tour operators are communicating with exhibitors

Matt Thompson, Project Director for COTTM said "COTTM aims to provide the Chinese buyers with a platform to visit the upcoming destinations to communicate to Chinese outbound travelers. With Chinese tourists making up 6% of the world's outbound traveler's in 2009 and the figure projected to reach 100 million travelers per year by 2020, it is a huge market that will continue to grow. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our media partners, industry associations, exhibitors and visitors, for their support and we look forward to working together again in 2011."

Mr. David Shields, Vice director of Jamaica Tourist Board; Mr. Colin James, CEO of Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority; Mr. Ernest Littles, President & Director of Tourism of Trinidad & Tobago; Dr. Adam Wu, COO of China Business Network; Prof. Dr Wolfgang Georg Alt

China Business Network (CBN) and World Travel Online (WTO) served as the partner of COTTM in charge of the section of Hosted Buyers and absorbed nearly 350 hosted buyers to the fair, and also at the same time, organized Caribbean Pavilion and showed up as a unit which was a focus during the fair. Meanwhile, with big support of CBN and WTO, Galicia Tourist Board was well promoted and received great attention from Chinese tour operators.


The pavilion of CBN	The beautiful pavilion of Jamaica Tourist Board

Mr. Brian Awang（right 2）, Chairman of TDC and Mr. Ernest Littles, President and director of Tourism TDC are communicating with interested Chinese tour operators	Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority is very popular during the fair

A comprehensive education programme was held in association with China Outbound Travel Research Institute, (COTRI) and Prof. Dr Wolfgang Georg Alt. COTRI also hosted the popular Chinese Tourist Welcoming Awards, which recognizes the excellent services and products provided for the growing outbound Chinese market, and delegates from CBN Travel Service, Roman Baths and Baltic & Balkan Baltic Group from Latvia and some other countries were rewarded.

Shan Ding (Right 3), Director of CBN Travel; Gundars Rozkalns (Right 6), Director of Baltic Balkan Travel Group were rewarded

Prof. Dr Wolfgang Georg Alt commented, "The educational activities received positive feedback with both speakers and audience sharing new insights as well as contacts. China, one participant remarked, is not an easy market, so presentations by experts and the opportunity to ask questions are a very welcome complimentary part of participating in COTTM".

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