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| Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
| Filtravel participates at the leading Scandinavian trade fair for travel, tourism and meetings (TUR) at the Swedish Exhibition Centre in Göteborg, Sweden from 13-16 March 2008. |
TUR provides an international meeting place for exhibitors, from all over the world, and visitors, mainly from the Nordic countries to meet trade visitors and the general public.
The TUR covers travel, tourism, meetings and any other sectors of the industry.
TUR runs for four full days, with the Thursday and Friday aimed at trade visitors, and the Saturday and Sunday also open to the public. On trade days, the focus is on meetings, establishing new business contacts, maintaining current contacts, finding new products, new services and trends. TUR’s focus on the rapidly growing meetings industry has made Meetings@TUR one of the industry’s most important meeting places. Meetings@TUR, which takes place on the two trade trade-only days, is a meeting place for professional buyers and sellers of international conferences and business meetings. It provides a forum for the sector to meet, develop and do business. Seminars are sandwiched with various activities. At the weekend, the fair is open to the public who flock in to gain inspiration from all the features of the event, everything from travellers’ tales to the special offers on holidays and travel.
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Scandinavian selling mission in Stockholm
Filtravel participated in the post-itb Scandinavian selling mission and Bayanihan roadshow in Stockholm, Sweden on March 11, 2008 represented by Per Hagstedt, Sales Director, Filtravel Sweden. The roadshow, promoting the Philippines, also visited Oslo, Norway on March 10 and will be in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 15. The Bayanihan dance company is world-renown for providing cultural entertainment promoting the Philippines.
Successful FAM tour to Boracay and El Nido
Filtravel and Singapore Airlines invited five Danish travel agencies to participate in a FAM tour to the two beautiful destinations Boracay and El Nido from March 5-10, 2008. The FAM tour was a part of Filtravel’s efforts to promote Philippines as an ideal holiday destination in the Scandinavian markets.
The Danish participants represented five of the leading Danish travel agencies: InterTravel, MyTravel Tango, Profil Rejser, Team Benns, and TopTours. The Danish delegation staid at the new hotel, Grand Boracay, in Boracay and visited several other resorts in the tropical island. Among the visited resorts were AltaVista, Asya, Discovery Shores, Friday’s, Mandala Spa Resort, Nami, and Red Coconut. The Danish group experienced the atmosphere on the famous White Beach and got a good impression of Boracay as an exciting holiday destination for Scandinavian tourists.
In El Nido, the Danish group visited the two award-winning, eco-sensitive resorts Lagen and Miniloc, and got a chance to experience the scenic surroundings on an island hopping and lagoon tour arranged by the resort. In the evening, the entertainment was provided by a local dance group presenting some traditional Filipino dances.
On March 10, the Danish delegation participated in a conference with representatives from 30 different Philippine resorts and Department of Tourism arranged by Filtravel and Singapore Airlines. The DOT representative, mr. Glen Agustin, presented a survey about the Scandinavian tourism industry and Mr. Jim Larsen from Filtravel presented Filtravel’s strategy and plans for capturing a higher percentage of the tourists from the Scandinavian regions and encouraged the participating hotels and resorts to join the effort to do so.
From left to right: Jim Larsen (Filtravel), Brian Holm Otte (InterTravel), Andrea Jancikova (TopTours), Anna Nikolajsen (MyTravel Tango), Finn Sonsby (Team Benns), Xenia Lund (Profil Rejser), Trine Jacko and Nenita Dy (Singapore Airlines) and Glen Agustin (DOT).
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