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Solo Traveler goes to the World Travel Market

Published November 12, 2009 | By Janice

Monday and Tuesday of this week I went to the biggest travel event in the world. I felt like a kid in a candy store as I visited the World Travel Market, had meetings with tourism professionals, watched as this years World Tourism Awards were presented, attended two travel tweet-ups and went to Travel Bloggers Camp. It was a very full two days. Here’s a pictorial account…

Anita Singh Soin (left), director of IBEX Expeditions,India, and her daughter. IBEX won a 2009 National Geographic Award for Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth. We had a great conversation and discussed a future trip to India.

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Traditional food was on offer at the Korean stand. It was excellent and, with the fair being so busy, a great way to save time by dodging the long concession line-ups..

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Chile is on my list for the coming year so I had a couple of good chats at their booth.

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This is a picture taken at one of the Tweet-ups by @andrewghayes of Sharing Travel Experiences and Travel Online Partners. Left to right: @lynnerosie, me, @501places and @velvetescape (Apologies for my silly face.)

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Congratulations to Bruce Poon Tip, founder of GAP Adventures. Here he is accepting a World Tourism Award.

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I have no pictures of the actual Travel Bloggers Camp but here’s one from the balcony. Thanks for Darren of Travel Rants for organizing the event.

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Returning back to my hotel after the Travel Bloggers Camp the London Underground was unusally empty.

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Me with Keith of the Velvet Escape blog and Velvet Connect on our way to one more breakfast meeting.

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After that meeting I went and toured London.

More to come on this complete trip that included Cambridge, the Lake District and Bath in future posts.

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  • JASMEET SAWHNEY

    Great information Anita – and some real good pictures
    Looking forward to next details….!!!

  • http://www.ibexexpeditions.com Anita Singh Soin

    Hey Janice,

    Thanks so much for posting this on your blog and am flattered. Warm regards. Anita

  • http://breathedreamgo.com/ Mariellen

    Oh, how I wish I was there with you! Maybe next year. Would love to know more about your experiences at WTM.

  • http://www.bridgetobhutan.com Lotrin

    Thanks so much. Glad to see the familiar names- Janice,Andy,Lynne,Keith and Bruce together and to be able to connect names and faces. M sure we will cross our path in the near future. Have a good week.Happiness:)

  • Nisha

    Oh my !
    Can’t wait to hear more on it.
    I’m glad you had a great time!

  • http://www.ouicoach.com Gwen McCauley

    It takes a lot to generate envy in me …but you’ve done that very well, Janice. I’ve got this event on my wall for next year. Thanks for making all these ‘virtual friends’ seem so much more real.

    I look forward to your postings about the rest of your trip. London is one of my fave cities.

    Gwen

  • http://www.wanderingeducators.com/marketplace/apparel/dansko-shoes-review.html jessiev

    WHAT fun! it looks like you all had such a good time. what was the most important thing you took away from it?

  • Dale Egan

    Need photos of the lake district…. in fact, love the photos

  • http://visitnormandy.wordpress.com/ Phil in Normandy

    My God, you’re all real people after all! Good time had by all by the look of it. :)

  • Travelfusion

    Hi Janice!

    Great meeting you and putting the face to the name – hope you had a good rest of the week!

    Best,
    Kathryn
    @Travelfusion

  • http://velvetescape.com/blog Keith Jenkins

    Thanks for posting this Janice. It was a great pleasure to meet you and to have some incredibly insightful discussions. Loved the brainstorming! :-)

  • http://www.kaleidoscopicwandering.com JoAnna

    I’m glad you had a great time! Can’t wait to hear about your digital detox!!

  • http://www.501places.com Andy Jarosz

    Great to meet you Janice, and I look forward to seeing your pics of your visit to the Lakes. The Korean food was wonderful wasn’t it.

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