| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 14/08/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 27 |
| Copyright: Other |
Show to focus on Central Europe
Key speakers from travel, research, technology and communications industries will take part in the first Central European Tourism Conference in Prague on February 6 next year.The conference, which precedes Holiday World 2001, a trade and consumer travel show, is being organised by the Central European Countries Travel Association and event organiser ITE.
CECTA chief executive Gill Wilson said: “The conference will cover the marketing and promotion of central Europe.”
Topics are expected to include airline alliances within Central Europe, air passenger duty, liberalisation of border controls and collective marketing of the region’s hotels.
“There are immense opportunities for travel within Central Europe beyond the gateway cities,” said Wilson.
“The conference will be a first debating platform for all those involved in the region.”
CECTA’s five member countries – Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria – are planning to jointly market themselves as central Europe at future UK events.
“We had a Central Europe area at the Dublin Holiday Experience in February – it worked superbly. We will look to take the concept to World Travel Market,”said Wilson.
n CECTA is to stage a Central Europe workshop at Manchester Airport on October 12.
Looking ahead: pictured in Vienna on a CECTA fam trip that took in Prague, Berlin and the Austrian capital, from left, are Jeannette Schuchmann, German National Tourist Office; Gill Wilson, CECTA; Oskar Hinteregger, Austrian National Tourist Office; Terry Coates, CECTA; Dagmar Gillespie, Czech Tourist Authority; and Gabor Tarr, Hungarian National Tourist Office.