The upcoming International Travel Festival takes a new meaning because of the recent developments in our country.

The International Travel Festival slated December 10-11, 2013 at SMX Convention Center is an annual event that offers travel and tour packages for early planners of their 2014 vacation. Specifically, the event targets the invited OFWs, OFW Families and Balikbayans of the co-located event: MegaBalikbayan OFW Expo, an event that offers business opportunities.

The event will have a benefit concert at night dubbed: Pinoy Bayanihan, a benefit concert that will give all proceeds to supporting organizations and to the Philippine National Red Cross. The concert will run for two days at around 7:00pm – 9:00pm at the stage of the expo hall. Various artists volunteered for free to perform in this event.

The International Travel Festival is an event that helps bolster the tourism industry in the country. The Department of Tourism expects a setback because of the damages Typhoon Haiyan brought to the country. The International Travel Festival aims to help in alleviating the impact of that Typhoon Haiyan caused.

For more information visit www.internationaltravelfestival.com.ph or call 643.3887 or email us at info@exlinkevents.com.

Just a few more days and we are about to welcome December. The last month of the year, call it cliché if you will, but time flies super fast.

We cannot stop time from moving but we can start creating something for ourselves in welcoming December and the coming year.

READY TO GO BUSINESS?

December is the time for us to rethink our passion. If our passion is about starting a business then this is the best time.

Why?

December allows us to make preparations for the coming year, a fresh start in realizing our dream, 

and an exciting time pregnant with possibilities.

VISIT EXPOS

If you are searching for suppliers and other business opportunities, I recommend you visit the different expos slated to take place at SMX, World Trade Center and Mega Trade.

This three venues provide a lot of expos this December that will speed-up your decision making process on what business to take or partners to forge ties with.

10^th MEGABALIKBAYAN OFW EXPO

While you are planning your research and visits on the venue I mentioned, do not forget to visit our event : Mega Balikbayan OFW Expo (MBOX) , now on its 10^th year.

MBOX is an advocacy expo for OFWs, OFW Families, Balikbayans and Professionals , if you are part of these group, I strongly suggest you visit it. MBOX is taking place this coming December 10-11,2013 at SMX Convention Center.

COMPLIMENTARY ENTRANCE FOR YOU!

If you want free entrance please tell the registration that you read this blog and you are free that EASY! 

A “mad scramble” for tourism freebies and discounts looms at the forthcoming International Travel Festival (ITF) 2013 as airline tickets to famous foreign tourism destinations and free hotel accommodations will be given away to many lucky visitors.

The raffle prizes at the ITF include 10 gift certificates for overnight stay in choice Philippine hotels for two, 10 international flight seats, and free trips for two to Thailand, Malaysia and Bali, Indonesia, all with hotel accommodations for three days, two nights.

Big discounts will also be available at the ITF’s component events such the Travel Philippines Show, Teambuilding Destinations Sale, Extreme Adventures Sale, Travel and Tours Christmas Sale, Hotels & Resorts Asia Christmas Sale, and Airline Tickets Sale for Asia, Europe and USA.

For local tours, free online travel reference services will be offered by Choose Philippines of ABS-CBN TV network in its exhibit booth.

The freebies and discounts are expected to bring in thousands of local and foreign visitors to the ITF, which will be held at the Mall of Asia’s SMX Convention Center Metro Manila on December 10 and 11, right at the peak of the travel season when tourists pour in droves to experience the country’s unique Christmas celebration.

       

The sale, involving also the destinations for teambuilding and extreme adventures, is seen to similarly attract hordes of corporate clients for their human resource development requirements and market engagement activities.

“Shoppers are likewise expected to join the massive influx of visitors looking for unique Christmas gifts that come in the form of packaged tours and travel souvenirs, thus turning the entire ITF into a fun-filled yuletide festivity for families and friends,” said chief executive officer Mitch Ballesteros of festival organizer Exlink Events.

“With our family activities and raffle draws spicing up the festival, our guests will have two full days of fun and amazing travel deals,” Ballesteros added.

Leading the global exhibitors in the ITF are executives of worldwide service provider Amadeus and members of the British, Turkish and European chambers of commerce and other Manila and foreign-based organizations.

Their big number will be matched by the local industry players and government travel marketers from the various regional offices of the Department of Tourism nationwide and its attached agency Tourism Infrastructure Enterprise Zone Authority.

Among the hundreds of local exhibitors are tourism destinations in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao – from as far north as the Cagayan Valley to as far south as General Santos City and as far west as the island province of Palawan.

“It will be a complete two-way tourism traffic, with both inbound and outbound tourism players doing brisk business from both ends of the supply chain and all the segments in between,” Ballesteros pointed out.

“They (exhibitors) include airlines, international hotel and resort chains, travel agencies, tour operators, MICE (meetings, incentive travel, conventions and events) organizers, shopping malls and global retail brands,” Ballesteros said.

 Also expected to participate in the ITF are transfers and transport firms, cruise ships and domestic passenger vessels, telecommunication companies, destination owners and managers, banks and financial institutions, and the academe and various service providers, among many others.

         

More information about the ITF can be obtained from Exlink Events (tel: 632 6433887; mobile: 0920 9242532, 0920 9814376; email: info@exlinkevents.com; or visit www.exlinkevents.com).