Students of Cologne Business School will award the Best Exhibitor Award at ITB 2009 on March 14 / All exhibitors to be evaluated in 11 categories. Which stand showcases its country or company in the best way? Which one is the most informative and which one offers the best service?

This year, again, aspiring tourism managers of Cologne Business School (CBS), being partners of Messe Berlin, will award the Best Exhibitor Award to exhibitors at ITB.

Tourism Marketing Company Saxony (TMGS) will be showcasing the Free State of Saxony as “Art Hall Saxony” at ITB Berlin from March 11 to 15. Painting masterpieces from museums in Saxony will set the stage for Saxony as Germany’s cultural travel destination number one with unseen quality and consequence, using an area of 1000 sqm in hall 11.2. In doing so, Saxony is aiming to position itself as the foremost address for art and culture in Germany providing travel offers of excellent quality.

Airline announces additional routes and increased frequencies for the upcoming nine months at the launch of ITB Berlin. The air carrier seems unaffected by the global economic situation

New destinations in Europe, Australia and India are top priorities in the expansion of Qatar Airways in the upcoming months. The airline announced in a press conference yesterday at ITB in Berlin that the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne will be added to the airline’s route portfolio in the course of the next nine months.

CBS Subsidy Award at the ITB on Sunday, March 15, 2009

This year, creative junior practitioners in tourism will again be able to show their worth and pocket big prizes. At the award ceremony of the CBS Subsidy Award, high school graduates who have developed visionary concepts for the tourism industry will be granted a scholarship for Cologne Business School amounting to 50,000 euros.

China Tours and Tischler Reisen AG now members of the Asia initiative
Berlin, February 2009 – Go Asia was joined by two new tour operators. China Tours is the leading organizer of specials for China travel in Germany and has offices in Hamburg, Beijing and Guilin. For 10 years, it has accompanied travelers on memorable tours across the culturally highly interesting and, in many regions, yet unexplored far eastern destination. In addition to educational, city and touring trips, they offer individual offers, event trips and combination trips to neighboring countries.

This is the theme that this year’s ITB Berlin was opened under on Tuesday at the International Convention Center. This year’s partner is the metropolis region of Rhine Ruhr.

The word of the evening was uttered early
“I am certain that the region can take on the leading forces of international tourism!” These were the words that Mayor Klaus Wowereit welcomed the representatives from the Ruhr region with. That was the extent of the hymns of praise, however. The social democrat used the remainder of his designated speech time for promoting Berlin.