Photo. The Indian exhibition - from the previous year travel fair Reiseliv . © Travel Explorations.
This travel fair is organised for the 20th time, and offer something for everyone. Based on information from the organiser Reiseliv`s information, travellers can choose between 1 million tours and 200 destinations.
New countries who are represented on the travel fair are Slovakia, Panama, Peru, Latvia and Bulgaria. The Indonesian representatives hope that tourists will rediscover the country after the tragic tsunami disaster.
The Norway`s biggest tour operator, Star Tour, is for the first time not represented on the travel fair. Wikstrøm Reiser, Escape Travel and Orkidereiser are either not represented. My Travel, who own the big tour operators/agents Ving and Saga Solreiser, have not been represented on the travel fair the last three years.
It very much work and it cost a lot of money to be represented. Some tour operators and travel agent put instead their marketing efforts to reach clients through internet. That`s the big meeting place now for tour operators, agents and travellers.
According to the organiser, the travel fair Reiseliv is Norway’s largest and most effective business-to-business meeting place for the travel trade. It provides an arena for building relations, doing business, acquiring information and finding inspiration. This show ranks as one of the few places in Norway where you meet your travel trade customers face-to-face under a single roof.
You can choose between different kind of tours, for example:
- Adventure tours
- Honeymoon
- Backpacking
- Impulse trip
- Stag party
- Hen party
- Family trip
- Luxury holiday
You can find the good offers and the exciting places off the beaten track at Reiseliv. Experts are ready and eager to help you plan. You can learn from their experience and consider countless opportunities in every price class.
Norway represent a small nation with few people, but anyway is a big potential in the travel market. The Norwegian have the money and passion for travelling. Just as the forthfather they are eager to travel and look continuously for new adventures.
Read about the International Norwegian Meeting and Travel Fair 2007 on the organiser`s website: Travel Fair Norway - Reiseliv.
Soon 900 million people will travelling internationally
Statistic from UNWTO - the World Tourism Organisation, show that it is a great potential in the travel markets, and the outlooks are promising. 2007 to be fourth year of sustained growth (UNWTO: Madrid, November 6, 2006): World tourism demand continues to exceed expectations, showing resilience against extraneous factors. According to the latest issue of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, released today: In the first eight months of 2006 international tourist arrivals totalled 578 million worldwide (+4.5%), up from 553 million in the same period of 2005, a year which saw an all-time record of 806 million people travelling internationally. Growth is expected to continue in 2007 at a pace of around 4% worldwide. Read more on: World Tourism Organisation.
Stein Morten Lund, 12 January 2007
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