Tuesday 17 November 2015, Barcelona: Reed
Travel Exhibitions (RTE) announced today at ibtm world in Barcelona that it has
signed a global agreement designating oneworld® as its exclusive airline
alliance partner for 2016, in what is believed to be the biggest yet
partnership of its kind.
It will see the world's leading organizer
of travel and tourism events offer clients attending these events attractive
discounts on the worldwide network of the most highly prized global airline
alliance.
It covers RTE events worldwide in 2016,
including World Travel Market (WTM), International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM)
and Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events (ibtm) events - a total of 19
shows, taking place in some 15 cities on five continents, attracting an
estimated 100,000 delegates from across the travel sector worldwide.
Participants of the travel events that are
under the umbrella of Reed Travel Exhibitions (www.reedtravelexhibitions.com)
will, from December 2015, be able to make flight reservations via www.oneworld.com/events for travel to
these shows - and receive discounted fares for themselves and a
companion. They can fly on any oneworld member airline, which include 15
of the world's leading carriers, serving between them more than 1,000
destinations in 150 plus countries.
Members of any oneworld member airline
frequent flyer programme will be able to take advantage of their usual
privileges and benefits along the way - including earning miles/points and, for
top tier cardholders and one companion each, the use any of the 650 plus
airport lounges provided by the alliance's airlines the world over.
oneworld and oneworld events, the
alliance's travel solution for the meetings, conferences, conventions,
exhibitions and special events sector, will be prominently promoted at RTE's
2016 events including during their build up.
"I am delighted to announce this
partnership with oneworld events, the one stop air travel solution for large-scale
meetings, conventions and events worldwide, so the strategic match with our
portfolio creates a great partnership," said Nick Pilbeam, Divisional Director
of Reed Travel Exhibitions.
"Every attendee whether exhibitor, buyer,
media or trade visitor will be able to book simply and easily through the oneworld
events portal where each show will have its own customized link, as well as a
24 hour support desk.
"Being the world's largest travel event
organiser, with shows on all continents and customers travelling all over the
globe to attend our events, the synergy with one world's global network, with 15
major carriers and their affiliates, is an excellent fit for our customers," added Pilbeam.
oneworld Director of Sales Jose Marfa
Alvarado said: "We are delighted and proud that Reed Travel Exhibitions - which
brings together the travel, events and conventions industries worldwide - has
selected oneworld events as its exclusive official airline alliance partner for
its events in the year ahead.
"The conventions and events industry
clearly loves the attractive flight discounts on a collection of some of the
world's leading airlines that oneworld events offers, to say nothing of its
ease of use and the many other benefits it provides. Today's contract
with Reed Travel Exhibitions is a tangible seal of approval from the very
people who best know the sector that oneworld events is designed to serve.
"With events in the leisure, luxury, spa
& wellness and ski sectors plus the footprint of MICE events on five
continents, there is no other organiser with such reach and expertise as Reed
Travel Exhibitions, and we at oneworld and our member airlines are looking
forward to working together to the benefit of all participants across every
event."
Both parties believe that the synergy of
their expertise and quality of customer service will build an alliance where
connections really do mean business.
About Reed Travel Exhibitions
Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) is the
world's leading provider of exhibitions in the travel and tourism industry. Its
wide - ranging portfolio of events around the globe covers leisure travel, luxury
travel, meetings, incentives and business travel, as well as golf, ski and spa
travel.
RTE, which organises more than 22 events
around the world, includes three portfolios; World Travel Market, IBTM World
and International Luxury Travel Market.
Among the RTE events included in this
agreement are:
• World Travel Market, in
London, 7-9 November.
• World Travel Market
Latin America, Sao Paulo, 2017 edition.
• World Travel Market
Connect Asia, Penang, 18-20 May.
• World Travel Market
Connect China, Hainan, 23-25 May.
• World Travel Market
Africa, Cape Town, 6-8 April.
• World Travel Market
Connect Ski, Otztal, Austria, 2017 edition.
• International Golf
Travel Market, 2017 edition.
• ILTM Japan, Tokyo, 2017
edition.
• ILTM Africa, Cape Town,
4-6 April.
• Travelweek Sao Paulo by
ILTM, Sao Paulo, 3-6 May.
• ILTM Asia, Shanghai, 30
May-2 June.
• ILTM Americas, Riviera
Maya, Mexico, 26-29 September.
• ILTM Cannes, Cannes,
France, 5-8 December.
• AIME, Melbourne, 2017
edition.
• IBTM Africa, Cape Town,
4-6 April.
• IBTM America,
Nashville, USA, 15-17 June.
• IBTM China, Beijing, China,
2016 edition 5-8 September.
• IBTM Latin America,
Mexico City, 7-8 September.
• IBTM World, Barcelona,
2016 edition, date to be confirmed.
RTE is a business unit of Reed
Exhibitions.
About Reed Exhibitions
Reed Exhibitions is the world's leading
events organiser, with over 500 events in 43 countries. In 2014 Reed brought
together over seven million event participants from around the world generating
billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held throughout the
Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa and organised by 41
fully staffed offices. Reed Exhibitions serves 43 industry sectors with trade
and consumer events. It is part of the RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider
of information solutions for professional customers across industries.
www.reedexpo.com
About oneworld
oneworld is an alliance of 15 of the world's
leading airlines, committed to providing the highest level of service and
convenience to frequent international travellers. Its members include
airberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia,
Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines, TAM Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Qatar
Airways, Royal Jordanian, S7 Airlines and SriLankan Airlines, and around 30
affiliates. As part of oneworld, they:
• Serve more a thousand
airports in 150 plus countries, with 14,250 daily departures.
• Carry some 515 million
passengers a year on a combined fleet of nearly 3,500 aircraft.
• Generate more than US$ 140
billion annual revenues.
oneworld member airlines work together to
deliver consistently a superior, seamless travel experience, with special
privileges and rewards for frequent flyers, including earning and redeeming
miles and points across the entire alliance network. Top tier cardholders
(Emerald and Sapphire) enjoy access to more than 650 airport lounges and are
offered extra baggage allowances. The most regular travellers (Emerald)
can also use fast track security lanes at select airports.
oneworld is the world's most highly prized
alliance, as the current holder of seven of the leading "best airline alliance" titles available in the various industry award schemes, including FlightStats' On - Time Performance Award 2014 for the second time running, Skytrax's World's
Best Airline Alliance 2015 for the third year running and Business Traveller's
2015 Best Airline Alliance, also for the second year running.
About oneworld events
oneworld events is aimed at conferences,
conventions, exhibitions and special events targeting a minimum of 100
international attendees. Since its launch two years ago, it has won
contracts from organisers of more than 200 events, conventions and shows,
taking place in almost 100 different locations worldwide, with combined
attendees totalling half a million.
For event and convention organisers, oneworld
events provides:
• An efficient and
user - friendly centralised process, with one set of terms and conditions
covering travel on all oneworld member airlines that can be ready for
acceptance just days after submitting the online request form.
• Attractive discounts for
attendees on flights on oneworld member airlines.
• The chance for organisers to
earn and redeem travel credits for flights on participating oneworld member
airlines.
• Simple online access to
real-time management reports 24/7, when using one world's own online booking
tool, to help meet attendees' travel needs.
• A ready - to - use oneworld
promotional toolkit to build attendee awareness.
For attendees, oneworld events offers:
• Attractive discounts on
flights for attendees and one travel companion each.
• A user - friendly booking tool
that displays the most convenient flights and multiple fare options from
hundreds of departure points all over the world to the event or convention
location.
• Travel on a collection of
some of the world's leading airlines.
• Round - the - clock support, when
booking via one world's own online booking tool, with the oneworld events
helpdesk ready to help via email or phone.
• All the usual privileges and
benefits afforded to members of any oneworld member airline frequent flyer
programme.
For more details, see oneworld.com and oneworld.com/events
For further media information:
Reed Travel Exhibitions - Nina Gardner, CUT
Communications, nina.gardiner@cut-coms.co.uk,
+44 7770 306689
one world - Michael Blunt, michael.blunt@oneworld.com,
+44 7711 997487
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