The World Youth Student and Educational (WYSE) Travel Confederation and ITB Asia have partnered up.
The new pair are gearing up to launch WYSE Exchange Asia, an exclusive event for youth and student travel focused businesses, who are looking to expand within this thriving arena.
The inaugural WYSE Exchange Asia event is scheduled to take place alongside ITB Asia in Singapore from October 21 – 22 2015.
Thirty buyers, or should we call them distributors of outbound youth travellers, who are based in Asia and sellers, the providers of youth travel product and services, will benefit from a number of features of the event.
These include:
- Up to 30 one-to-one business appointments
- Four educational clinics, during which leading industry experts will share the latest insights on key industry issues
- Networking opportunities through two evening social events
- Access to the ITB Asia conference and educational clinics.
Economies within Asia are continuing to benefit from strong growth, a fact that is having a positive impact on outbound travel from the region.
Among those groups driving consumer demand for travel products and services are young people, that elusive group who are constantly seeking new experiences from heading OS for adventure.
This promising environment is serving up opportunity on a plate, to connect leading youth travel product and service providers with distributors of outbound youth travellers from key source markets within Asia.
WYSE Travel Confederation’s director general David Chapman said the partnership will deliver exclusive opportunity to show off travel products in the competitive market of youth.
“We are delighted to be partnering with ITB Asia and believe this partnership will deliver an exclusive opportunity for WYSE Travel Confederation members to showcase their products and services in Asia, learn more about the region’s youth and student travel industry and help them establish vital connections to harness the growing economies within this area,” he said.
Katrina Leung, executive director of Messe Berlin (Singapore), organiser of ITB Asia, also commented on the match up, adding that this is the first partnership of its kind for ITB Asia to tap into the youth sector.
“WYSE Travel Confederation’s expertise in youth and student travel combined with our experience and established network in Asia will support networking and business opportunities for all involved,” she said.
“With this partnership, we’re expecting to expand our pool of buyers and exhibitors in the youth travel sector, adding diversity to this year’s show.”
Organisations interested in taking part in WYSE Exchange Asia need to register their interest to WYSE Travel Confederation by Friday, March 6 2015 via www.wysetc.org.
This event is only open to WYSE Travel Confederation members, so check out www.wysetc.org/membership for more information on membership benefits and to apply.
