World Travel Market 2015, the leading global event for the travel industry, has partnered with a leading spa and wellness specialist to launch a wellness hub. WTM Wellness Lounge in association with Spafinder Wellness 365™ will take place on Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 November, highlighting the rapid growth of a sector that is now worth a healthy $3.4 trillion annually, according to the 2014 Global Spa & Wellness Economy Monitor.
The lounge will maximise connection opportunities between wellness exhibitors and wellness buyers, and facilitate business deals. The introduction of this spa and wellness hub builds on the success of a Wellness Programme launched at WTM 2014, which included three sessions and the Spafinder Wellness 365 Wellness Travel Awards.
World Travel Market, Senior Director, Simon Press said: “The wellness industry’s importance to the wider travel industry continues to grow every year.
“It is now valued at $3.4 trillion* and expands annually as our lives get busier and more stressful – and more people are increasingly concerned about boosting their physical and mental wellness during their leisure time.
“This has seen the wellness industry move quickly from a travel industry niche into the mainstream. WTM is fulfilling this need by giving the wellness industry a platform to negotiate and conclude deals.”
John Bevan, Chief Operating Officer of Spafinder Wellness, Inc.® said: “Spafinder Wellness 365 is delighted to be partnering with World Travel Market again.
“After our very well attended conference programme at WTM 2014, there was a real appetite to see wellness become a travel product, just as cities, beach and ski have.
“For too long, the wellness and travel industries worked side by side but never crossed paths, but thanks to the foresight of World Travel Market, we have put together a programme that will allow the two industries to meet and do business.”
The new wellness hub offers suppliers an exclusive platform to meet fresh and established contacts and conduct business in the comfort of the dedicated lounge.
The package for suppliers will include private pods within the lounge; a networking breakfast with wellness buyers on Wednesday 4 November; priority access to WTM Speed Networking sessions; and an online networking tool to connect with the wider WTM audience.
Other benefits include an invitation to the Wellness Travel Awards Reception on 4 November; exposure to the WTM Buyer database through a dedicated email profiling all Wellness Lounge suppliers; promotion in the WTM Catalogue, WTM Routeplanner and online Exhibitor Directory; and access to 250 spa/wellness buyer contacts from the WTM visitor database.
World Travel Market 2015 takes place on 2-5 November at ExCeL London.
To book a pod in the Wellness Lounge or find out more, contact Roziani Zulkifli on +44 (0) 208 910 7805/ roziani.zulkifli@reedexpo.co.uk
wtmlondon.com/wellness
*Global Spa & Wellness Economy Monitor 2014
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About World Travel Market
World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, is the must-attend four-day business-to-business exhibition for the worldwide travel and tourism industry.
Almost 52,000 senior travel industry professionals, government ministers and international press, embark on ExCeL – London every November to network, negotiate and discover the latest industry opinion and trends at WTM.
WTM, now in its 36th year, is the event where the travel industry conducts and concludes its deals. WTM 2014 will generate around £2.5 billion of travel industry contracts.
World Travel Market is part of Reed Travel Exhibition’s WTM portfolio, which also includes Arabian Travel Market, World Travel Market Latin America and World Travel Market Africa. www.wtmworld.com
WTM Portfolio
The World Travel Market Portfolio is comprised of the leading leisure travel events in the world; World Travel Market in London, WTM Latin America in Sao Paulo, WTM Africa in Cape Town and Arabian Travel Market in Dubai.
The WTM Portfolio’s events are attended by the global travel and tourism industry’s senior executives to conduct business deals and discover the latest research, insight and opinion.
In 2014, the WTM Portfolio facilitated around $7 billion in industry deals from negotiations between the more than 15,000 buyers, 9,500 exhibitors (1,500 main stand holders and 8,000 stand sharers) in attendance of its four events.
WTM is owned by the world’s leading events organiser Reed Exhibitions.
About Reed Exhibitions
Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events organiser, with over 500 events in 43 countries. In 2014 Reed brought together over seven million event participants from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa and organised by 41 fully staffed offices. Reed Exhibitions serves 43 industry sectors with trade and consumer events. It is part of the RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries.