Bloggers & Travel Industry Meet at ITB Berlin

More and more companies are exploiting the wide-ranging impact of travel blogs in order to target customers. At the upcoming Blogger Speed Dating event ITB Berlin will be offering members of the travel industry an opportunity to meet with experienced travel bloggers from around the world for the third time. During the eight to ten-minute time slots both participants will be able to briefly introduce themselves, discuss topics and business, and establish initial contact.

Registered bloggers can participate in the ITB Berlin Blogger Speed Dating event, which is free of charge, and use it to further their careers. On 5 and 6 March they can hold up to nine brief meetings on each day with exhibitors representing every branch of the global travel industry, introduce their blogs and establish new contacts and business partnerships. At the same time, exhibitors can meet international bloggers dealing with a variety of topics, including adventure travel, luxury travel and family travel. The event also opens up new possibilities for destinations, hotels and companies to market their products and services.

The Blogger Speed Dating event will take place from 4.30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, 5 and Friday 6 March 2015 and is free of charge for exhibitors and bloggers. Bloggers and companies interested in the event can register now (Bloggers at http://www.itb-berlin.com/blogger and exhibitors at http://www.itb-berlin.de/en/Exhibitors/SpeedDating/BloggerSpeedDating/).

Allocation of time slots for the Blogger Speed Dating event will take place as of January 2015.

ITB Berlin 2015 will take place from March 4 to March 9. From Wednesday to Friday, ITB Berlin is open to trade visitors only. The ITB Berlin Convention is held parallel with the trade fair, from Wednesday to Saturday. It is the world’s largest specialist convention for the industry. More details are available at http://www.itb-convention.com.

ITB Berlin is the leading trade fair for the worldwide travel industry. In 2014 a total of 10,147 companies and organisations from 189 countries exhibited their products and services to 174,000 visitors, who included 114,000 trade visitors.