Rather unique in Asia, ITE & MICE Hong Kong 2015 succeeds in effectively combining a trade fair with a public fair, each with sufficient quantity of quality visitors! In 2014, it drew in its two trade days over 12300 buyers and visitors (74% from Hong Kong & 19% from China and 7% other parts of Asia; 6522 from travel agents & 2588 from MICE), and in two public days 75300 visitors (83% prefer FIT/tailor made tours).
Therefore, exhibitors can conduct channel and direct sale, and promoting to the travel trade and to the public FIT in one stop! To many suppliers, it becomes equally important to reach out both to agents and travelers who now often make their own decisions!

Separate Programs for Trade and Public
Besides separate days, other measures are employed to effectively segregate trade and public visitors! Admission in trade day costs much more and visitors are required to present business card for registration. Only allowed or available in public days are retail sale, round the clock cultural performances and grand lucky draw etc.

There are separate programs for trade and public! Held only in trade day is Business Matching, where in one session 30 to 40 buyers meet same number of sellers. While the some 20 trade seminars, like EUROPE UPDATE for example, help agents plan new travel products, many of the some 100 public seminars are hosted by celebrity or travel writer on enjoying overseas holidays.

To facilitate audiences, seminars are often being held at purposely built rooms inside the exhibition halls. Seminars are promoted weeks before the Opening, externally through different media and partnering organizations and internally using different in-house data bases. Only trade seminars accept online pre-registration.

Public visitors love attending seminars too, with some attracting over 200 audiences! In fact, those interested in Attending Seminar (29.4%) far outnumber those in Onsite Booking (19.2%), which reflects well on the high visitor quality!
Results prove they have been effective not only in segregating trade and public and in better attracting visitors too!

Up Market & Theme Travels
Over 85% of its some 700 exhibitors are from abroad including about 100 tourism organizations from all over the world, and they come from around 50 countries and regions half of which outside Asia. In its 29th year, the travel fair is among Asia’s earliest and is the only of its kind in Hong Kong!

Besides destinations and travel products, trendy themes particularly attractive to up market travelers such as MICE and Cruise etc are also being promoted through seminars and special displays jointly held with related organizations.

Surveys by organizer revealed while interests of trade and public visitors converge in Wellness and Sport, they show significant differences` in Overseas Wedding and Travel Photography. Overall, popularity of theme travel continues growing fast!

Hong Kong an Important Source Market
Hong Kong, where the annual ITE & MICE is held, is within four hours flight from nearly all major cities in China, East and Southeast Asia. Hong Kong is also extensively and conveniently linked to cities of Guangdong and in fact some 10% of our buyers / trade visitors come from there.

At US$21 billion in 2013 and with only 7.2 million people, Hong Kong not only spends the most on overseas travel among all China’s provinces but also tops by per capita spending among the wealthy East Asia markets including Japan and South Korea!

In fact, the city ranked 15th in the world by international tourism expenditure in 2013, is certainly a significant source market. Moreover, Hong Kong citizens can visit over 140 countries / regions, including EU, without visa. Though now part of China, English remains an official language and continue to be widely spoken!

The Next Edition
ITE & MICE 2015, a co-location of the 29th ITE on leisure travel and the 10th ITE MICE, will be held from June 11 to 14, 2015 at halls 1A to 1E in the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.

The Travel Expo is again supported by China National Tourism Administration, Hong Kong Tourism Board, Macau Government Tourist Office, Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong, other trade associations of travel and event industry from the region.

Further free and optional services for enhancing contacts between buyers / visitors and sellers are available, which include assistance to hold Seminar and making your own Pre-appointment via password enabled online system etc.

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