The organiser G.S.A.R. Marketing is part of Convenco, a group of companies involved in the travel industry since 1974. The Convenco Group has successfully applied its deep and wide international expertise toward an important segment of national and international clients. The key of the Convenco Group success is precisely the understanding of multinational business and the translation of international commercial policies to the reality of the global market place.
Convenco’s ways of doing things is based on the company’s leadership and international background.

“The Chinese Government is increasingly conscious of the role that tourism plays in socio-economic development and will double its efforts in tourism,” said Chinese Vice-Premier, Wang Qishan, on joining the UNWTO/WTTC Global Leaders for Tourism Campaign (Beijing, China).

by Imtiaz Muqbil, Executive Editor, www.travel-impact-newswire.com
Heavy-duty restructuring is under way at the Pacific Asia Travel Association as it prepares to “start off with a clean slate” before the announcement of a new CEO at the annual PATA Travel Mart in New Delhi this week.
Three of its regional directors in Europe and North America will not have their contracts renewed as of October, two staff in the Strategic Intelligence Centre have been “restructured” as of September and five staff moved to the newly established marketing and membership services unit.

Travel Massive’s mission is to provide free networking events to connect people across all areas of the travel industry globally.
We’re now announce the first Travel Massive meetup in Berlin (and Germany) in two weeks time, thursday, oct.15,2011, 18-21 hour at Sankt Oberholz, Rosenthaler Straße 72, 10119 Berlin (http://www.sanktoberholz.de/).
Bring you friends, colleagues and fellow travel enthusiasts for a travel talk and beer.
History: Travel Massive started in Sydney, Australia in 2009 – when World Nomads colleagues Alicia Smith and Ian Cumming put an open invite on Twitter to meet and connect with other people in the travel industry. Over the summer, the monthly meetup grew rapidly with a steady stream of travel entrepreneurs, travel bloggers, travel photographers, brand managers, and passionate travellers all meeting for drinks and networking in Sydney’s backpacker bars. The concept was taken to Toronto and London shortly after, and Travel Massive has since grown to more than 12 cities world-wide including New York, Singapore, and San Francisco.

BEIJING & CIBTM SUPPORTS CHINA’S MEETINGS INDUSTRY, INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITORS – “WE MUST BE HERE”
As the 6th CIBTM drew to a close in China today, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development (BTD) told the MICE industry via presentations to the media, Hosted Buyers, Exhibitors and trade visitors that they had not only signed another 3 year MOU with Reed Travel Exhibitions (organizers of the event) to continue their support of the growing meetings industry in China, but that they would also provide additional resources to encourage inbound business to support RFP’s from international MICE buyers and planners.

Phuket news published: The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is predicting that more than 18 million foreign tourists will visit Thailand this year, and has named Russia as the market with the highest potential in Europe.
Juthaporn Rerngronasa, TAT Deputy Governor for International Marketing for Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas, said that current performance points to the number of foreign visitors touch 18.3 million, a long way ahead of the 2011 target of 16.5 million.