ITE & MICE Hong Kong 2015 and Hong Kong Wedding Management Association (HKWMA) to step up Co-operation on Honeymoon and Overseas Wedding “HOW” in Travel Expo.To facilitate promotion and deliverance of overseas wedding services, HKWMA will organize, in the coming ITE & MICE Hong Kong, its members particularly the wedding planners to attend Business Matching (networking) and trade seminars, and visit related official pavilions / stands. HKWMA will also help inviting counterparts in China particularly those in Guangdong to visit ITE & MICE.
According to HKWMA, its members are particularly interested in learning more about overseas wedding facilities (heritage and culture venues etc), legal requirements and procedures for foreigner’s marriage application, and supports and incentives (FAM tour etc ). And meeting or establishing contact with potential business associates overseas (travel agent and wedding professional etc) is also a priority.
With over 2,000 members from related sectors such as wedding and travel planner, hotel, ceremony, and photography etc, HKWMA has been supporting the popular theme pavilion of Honeymoon & Overseas Wedding (HOW) in ITE & MICE since 2013.
Respectively 24% of the 12308 trade visitors and 14% of the 75300 public visitors of ITE & MICE 2014 were interested in HOW. Also present were 650 international exhibitors from 47 countries and regions, which included many popular destinations such as those island paradises, hotels, and travel agents catering for overseas wedding etc.
“Wedding marrying with Travelling can result in exciting services like Destination wedding, Pre-Wedding Photography, Honeymoon travel and Group Wedding event. 12 million china wedding couples in 2014 spends average $170,000 on wedding and 8.5% percent go to destination wedding services generate an approximately 173 billion dollars marketplaces.”said Ms. Angel Kwong, President of HKWMA, and“there is massive space for sustainable business development”. HKWMA deems it rewarding in co-operating on HOW with ITE & MICE!
“We welcome HKWMA continues expanding the cooperation on HOW, and would thank their efforts to bring in more wedding planners from Hong Kong and Guangdong to attend our travel expo”said KS Tong, Managing Director of TKS Exhibition Services Ltd, which organizes the annual Hong Kong International Travel Expo (ITE) and the concurrent MICE Travel Expo known collectively as ITE & MICE.
ITE & MICE 2015 will be held from 11 to 14 June 2015 at Halls 1A to 1E at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, with first two days for trade and the last two open to public. It is supported by China National Tourism Administration, Hong Kong Tourism Board, Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong and Macau Government Tourist Office, trade associations of travel agents and event industries from Hong Kong and in the region.
For expo’s details and market news, please visit www.itehk.com while the website for public, www.travelexpo.com.hk will be available in mid May. For enquiry of exhibiting and visiting, please send email to travel@tkshk.com or contact the Organizer, TKS at (852) 3155 0600.
