2019 from Sep 23-25
India Tourism Mart (ITM) will be held from September 23-25, 2019 at The Ashok, New Delhi, confirmed FAITH. The association expects to shortlist around 500 international buyers for the second edition of the show.
Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism and Hos the dates for the second edition of India Tourism Mart (ITM). The 2019 edition of the trade show will be held from September 23-25, 2019 at The Ashok, New Delhi, informed Subhash Goyal, Honorary Secretary, FAITH.
Goyal mentioned that the association expects to shortlist around 500 international buyers in this year’s ITM. Around 250 buyers attended the show in 2018. “With every detail available online, the selection process is very transparent. Representatives of Ministry of Tourism will be a part of the process. This year, we are not allowing operators who attended the show last year. We are also in the process of appointing an advertising and marketing promotion agency,” he mentioned.
Goyal also reiterated that the objective of ITM is to promote inbound tourism to India and help all the medium and small tour operators, who cannot attend large-scale trade shows like WTM London and ITB Berlin, interact with international buyers in their country.
Talking about the preparations for the show, he said, “We have written to all the embassies in Delhi to identify outbound tour operators of the respective countries. Through the Ministry of Tourism, we are also in the process of sending messages to all formed a steering committee which is meeting regularly to look after the preparations for the show.”
Goyal shared updates from FAITH’s board meeting on the association’s activities. He informed, “We have entire year and are looking forward to hold meetings in all the major states on issues such as GST and others. We are also planning to hold 10 different meetings with 10 different associations on their respective issues. Finally, we’re going to have the mother of conferences around October 2019 where we are trying to get the President of India. The conference will be purely based on pressing issues of the industry.”
Stressing on the distinction of ITM as India’s only international non-commercial show, he further said that the trade fair is strictly by the industry, for the industry and for the country.