"World without Borders - 2010" exhibition news, 09-Feb-2010
Announce: On April 16 - 17, 2010, in Rostov-on-Don, the 13th International Festival of Tourism and Rest "World without Borders - 2010" will be held.
On April 16 - 17, 2010, in Rostov-on-Don, the 13th International Festival of Tourism and Rest "World without Borders - 2010" will be held.
The organizer of the festival is "ROSTEX" exhibition center, which proved to be one of the best organizers of the tourist projects in the South of Russia. The festival is held with the official support of Rostov Region Administration and Russian Union of Tourism Industry.
The expositions will occupy 3,500 sqm. of specialized floor space at the "VertolExpo" congress and exhibition center. That allows to use up-to-date exhibition technologies to the full extent.
The "World without Borders - 2010" festival has been held since 1998. During the time of its existence the expositions have been considerably enlarged and today the project has a right to be considered as the leading professional travel and tourism event in the South of Russia. Every year, in April, the tour operators and travel agencies come to the southern capital, changing Rostov into the center of tourism business industry for two days. The middle of April in the Southern Federal District has become a special period for professionals in the tourism industry, inaugurating the opening of the summer season.
The festival goals:
- Presentation of the new summer season offers and the new accommodation facilities
- Establishment of productive business relations between the tourism market participants
- Formation of constant demand for accommodation by means of cooperation between the participants of the tourism activity
- Formation of price policy for the new summer tourist season
The festival is meant to find out the most prospective development trends in the travel and tourism industry and to extend market channels by means of direct contacts of the experts in the industry.
The "World without Borders - 2010" is a traditional annual meeting point for tour operators and travel agencies, national and regional tourist committees, hotels and hotel chains, holiday hotels and recreation centers, sanatoria and health resorts, air carriers and insurance companies. The festival covers the whole spectrum of the tourist services, beginning with the organization of travels into various countries of the world and ending with the services of air transportations, railway ticket sale, hotel accommodation and booking of rooms, organization of conferences and seminars.
In 2009, despite the difficult economical conditions, the exhibition retained its position and attracted new partners. Over 200 companies and representatives of sanatoria and resort complex from all Russia became the participants of the "World without Borders - 2009" festival. The most of the regular exhibitors announced their participation in the "World without Borders - 2010" festival. Among them are such big fishes in the travel and tourism business as "ANEX TOUR", "CORAL TRAVEL", "PAC GROUP", "PEGAS TOURISTIK", "ALBION TOUR", "CAPITAL TOUR", NTK "Intourist", TK "ROZOVY SLON", "PBR-ALEAN", RTK "Yuzhnaya Stolitsa", "YuRTA" and others. Over 72 % of companies have been taking part in the festival for over five years.
The tourism potential in the Russian regions at the "World without Borders - 2010" festival is presented at the collective stands. In 2009, the collective stands of the Stavropol Territory, Rostov, Astrakhan, and Volgograd Regions, Greater Sochi, the towns of Pyatigorsk, Ust-Donetsk, and Donetsk, the Republic of Adygeya, Kalmykia, and Kabardino-Balkaria were organized.
An extensive business program is planned for the "World without Borders - 2010" festival, which will include the main issues in the travel and tourism industry: tourism development and the ways of overcoming the world financial crisis. Within the frameworks of the program, the "ROSTEX" exhibition center will organize presentations of tour operators and works at creation of favourable conditions for efficient information exchange between the event participants.
Traditionally, an annual workshop "World without Borders" - the working meetings of the tourism business professionals - will be timed to the "World without Borders - 2010" festival. The combined project - workshop & festival "World without Borders - 2010" - will unite on the one platform several cities of Russia: on April 15th the project will start in Krasnodar, on April 16th Rostov-on-Don will pick up the baton, on April 17th the event participants will go to Volgograd. Such complex program, uniting several related events and cities, is the most up-and-coming for the moment. The organization of the special transfers of the visitors - experts in the tourism industry from Astrakhan, Saratov, Volgograd, Stavropol, Krasnodar, Anapa, and Gelendzhik - will contribute to the constructive work of the project participants and the tourism business experts from the whole south of Russia. A transfer of representatives of the tourism business and sanatoria and resort complex of the South (there are more than 500 directors and leading specialists among them) is planned for the festival of 2010.
The "World without Borders - 2010" festival is the most popular and important tourist event in the Southern Federal District for expert visitors. Last year its expositions and working events were visited by over 3,500 representatives of the travel and tourism business, including 68 % travel and tourism business specialists, 38 % of the specialists were the representatives of the top management. The absence of the "casual visitors" provides for the highly efficient work of the event. 95 % of exhibitors and visitors noted the success and high degree of the festival's organization.
The meetings of professionals will allow not only to gain new experience in promotion of the offered services, but define the most important trends of the travel and tourism industry development in the current economic conditions.
The "World without Borders - 2010" festival is a unique opportunity to present your company and new programs, to establish partnership and to strengthen positions on the travel and tourism market of Russia.