Sunday 15 June 2014

28th ITE Hong Kong and 9th ITE MICE opened on 12 June 2014

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals

The 28th edition of the International Travel Expo (ITE) Hong Kong and the 9th edition of ITE MICE opened in Hong Kong on 12 June 2014 and ended on 15 June 2014 at Halls 1A to 1E of the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. This event has attracted 12,308 trade and corporate visitors during the trade days with around 26% from mainland China and other countries, and 75,300 public visitors on the public days. Some 6000 visitors are travel agents and 2,500 from MICE and corporations.



The Travel Expo highlights themes like MICE, Corporate Travel, Cruise, Travel Photography, Wellness & Medical Tourism, Overseas Wedding & Honeymoon, In-depth Travel and Sport Tourism.



Repeated pavilions originate from Guam, Switzerland, USA with the largest contingent from Japan followed by Taiwan and China.


New pavilions or official stands by tourism boards originate from Berlin, Indonesia, Sweden and Tainan. This year's ITE has around 100 tourism boards and USA is the leading featured destination. Twenty seminars and business matching sessions were conducted on the trade days while 100 seminars are held on the public days
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More than seven airlines participate in ITE Hong Kong this year. They include MIAT Mongolian Airlines, Hunnu Air, Ethiopian Airlines, SriLankan Airlines and for the first time, Jin Air, Air Berlin and Hong Kong's low-cost airline HK Express.


At Booth F126, Jin Air gave away exquisite Jin Air logo paper fans and street shopping bags upon registration as a Jin Air on-line member. The Korean airline did not confirm the inaugural flight date of its another Japanese destination but said that more information will be available in July on its web-site. It also confirmed no plan to launch any flight to Singapore from Seoul-Incheon in the near future.

Further airline news from ITE will follow shortly.

ITE & MICE 2015 will take place between 11 and 14 June at the same venue.

Source (partially) : TKS Exhibition Services Ltd

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