From October 1 to 3, in Moscow, in the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya, the 14th Moscow International Exhibition Leisure / Leisure, the main professional tourist forum for the autumn-winter season, was held. Its organizers are ITE and MSI.
Participants of the exhibition "Rest / Leisure" were 600 companies from 33 countries. A number of countries were represented at the state level. Thus, Guatemala, Germany, India, China, Mexico, France, Jamaica and, of course, the UAE, in particular Dubai under the auspices of the Department of Tourism and Commercial Marketing of the government of this emirate, made national expositions. The leading hospitality and tourism companies from Dubai, including Alpha Tours, Al Fanar Tourism & Cargo, Emirates Holidays, Planet Travel, Royal Park Tourism Services, Desert Adventures, Travco, Lama Tourism, Fasten Tourism, gathered under the “roof” of the DTKM booth. Movenpick Hotels, Le Royal Meridien Hotel, Jebel Ali Hotel, Al Bustan Residence and many other well-known companies. The emirates of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Fujairah were represented by separate stands. Russian exhibitors were represented by well-known tour operators: TEZ Tour, Capital Tour, Lanta-Tour Voyage, Astravel, DzhiTiAi, S7 Tour, DSBV, Labyrinth, Yuzhel Travel, Inters , "Nord", "Luzhniki Travel", "Viking Travel", "AeroTravel Club", "Golden Eagles Tours", "Carlson Tourism", "Ingosstrakh", "TourTrans Voyage", "Versa", "N-Trans Tour" , "TourParad", "Orpheus", "Rusiber" and others. At the same time, TEZ Tour also acted as the general partner of the exhibition. The participants of this annual exhibition represented both traditional winter holiday destinations, including the countries of Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, as well as exclusive ones such as Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Fiji. For the first time, Mexico became the partner of the exhibition Leisure / Leisure.
All, without exception, the exhibitors were pleased with the rich business program. The 5th International Conference on Business and Incentive Tourism MICE Russia was held as part of Leisure. Business sessions were conducted by leading world experts in the MICE industry.
Travel agencies have traditionally been the main target audience of the exhibition; it was for them that a number of seminars and consultations were held with the Persona Grata legal agency on operational activities - legal, financial, and administrative.
The regular LEISURE ANNUAL AWARDS 2008 Awards Ceremony was held on October 1 at the official reception dedicated to the opening of the Leisure / Leisure exhibition. The exhibition participants were awarded in the following nominations: Best Stand, Best Company Presentation, Bright Debut, Best presentation of the Russian region "and others. Traditionally, within the framework of the exhibition, the conference" TBG - Travel Brands "was held, in which the first persons of the leading travel companies took part. For the first time, the "Job Fair" was working at the exhibition. Partners and experts of the fair were the Turinfo newspaper, the Russian International Academy of Tourism and the Internet portal Headhunter.ru.
The exhibition "Leisure" was held with official support from the Committee on Culture of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Government of Moscow, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
