The Show, the largest travel trade and consumer convention in North America, marks its 16th year in 2019
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
The 2019 New York Times Travel Show will take place January 25-27, 2019, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City.
2019’s Travel Show will open with a Trade Day, open exclusively to travel industry professionals and writers, on Friday, January 25, Saturday, January 26, and Sunday, January 27, 2019. will be open to the general public, as well as travel professionals and media.
Overall attendance at the 2018 Travel Show—its commemorative 15th anniversary year—was 32,398, the HIGHEST in the history of the Travel Show and represented an increase in confidence and interest in leisure travel. These consumer traveler attendees estimated that they would spend more than $100 million in travel trips in the next 12 months, according to Travel Show survey results.
Trade attendance was once again strong at more than 10,268, an 11% increase from the previous year. The estimated volume of travel business represented by travel agents in attendance was a record $3.3 billion, according to Travel Show survey results.
Participating exhibitors also hit a new record with 610 companies representing over 176 countries. In addition to networking and negotiating new deals with travel agents, the 2018 exhibitors estimated that they created additional consumer traveler sales of approximately $7.5 million, on-site or shortly thereafter, according to Travel Show survey results.
Over 1,300 members of domestic and international media – covering all seven continents and dozens of nations and regions – attended the 2018 Travel Show to gain insights from industry-focused seminars and conferences, in addition to two days of consumer events that featured 276 travel industry speakers and experts.
If traveling is your thing, then plan ahead to attend the 2019 Travel Show. More details on the travel show to come in the coming months. Stay Tuned!
SOURCE: NYTimes Travel Show