ELIGIBILITY TO ATTEND MITM AMERICAS AS A HOSTED BUYER
Applicants must be actively working persons responsible for –full or part-time– influencing, organizing or purchasing business travel, incentive travel, international meetings, conventions, conferences, international congresses, seminars, product presentations, exhibitions or events and are able and willing to hold events anywhere in the American Continent and the Caribbean.

HOW TO QUALIFY TO PARTICIPATE AS A HOSTED BUYER
Applicants must fill out this online Hosted Buyer Application form, including the Buyer’s Marketing Profile, and completing all questions and boxes. Submitting this application form is not a confirmation as Hosted Buyer. MITM reserves the right to confirm or deny any application. All approved hosted buyers applicants may register online as hosted buyers. The registration requires a fee, which is refundable fulfilling all the appointments with exhibitors. Fee to be paid by credit card. No registration will be final without accepting the MITM rules and conditions and fee payment by credit card.

REGISTRATION FEE

Hosted Buyers: EUR 375,00	Companion: EUR 150,00 (Sharing hotel room)
Includes: Transportation funding, up to 3 hotel nights (2 nights if taking post-tour), meals & transfers, as in final program.
UP TO MAY 31, 2011:	FULLY REFUNDABLE only to hosted buyers, based on appointments fulfillment.
AFTER MAY 31, 2011:	REFUNDABLE only to hosted buyers (less € 125 as handling fee), based on appointments fulfillment.

TRANSPORTATION

MITM will finance hosted buyers (not companions) transportation cost as follows:

- Up to a maximum of EUR 200 for buyers originating from Central America.
- Up to a maximum of EUR 450 for buyers originating from the American continent and the Caribbean.
- Up to a maximum of EUR 650 for buyers originating from the rest of the world.

MITM leaves to hosted buyers the freedom to arrange their own transportation for as long as they arrive in San Salvador, at the latest, on November 16th, 2011 and depart on or after November 18th, 2011. Should MITM obtain any carrier special fares, MITM will advise buyers and make these fares available to them. Payment of the transportation allowance will be made by bank transfer, on behalf of the buyer’s company, to those who had provided their company’s bank details and after obtaining a voucher in MITM’s registration desk in San Salvador on November 18th, at the end of the travel market. Reservations and ticketing must be done before October 15th, 2011. By this date buyers must advise MITM of detailed final itinerary. Once refund is approved, the hosted buyer company must send an invoice on the name of the company and made out to GSAR Marketing, showing the amount approved.