MITM Profile | MITM Americas

San Salvador, El Salvador - November 16/18, 2011

Place:	Crowne Plaza Hotel San Salvador. (view google maps)
Dates:	November 16^th, 17^th & 18^th, 2011.
Hours:	November 16^th: Registration between 01:00 pm and 04:00 pm. November 17^th: Travel market from 09:00 am to 05:30 pm. November 18^th: Travel market from 09:00 am to 01:00 pm.

Details:

Open only to travel and tourism trade professionals.
Specifically directed to the M.I.C.E. market (Meetings, Incentives, Congresses/Conventions and Events).
Individual and pre-arranged meetings between exhibitors and hosted buyers are set up.
Neither visitors, nor public allowed.
Serious and professional travel market. No entertainment allowed, except at specific hours within the stands, so the working atmosphere cannot be altered.
Post tours are offered to buyers and international press in order they know first-hand the exhibitor’s venues and services.

Participants:

EXHIBITORS:

FROM:	All around the word, but specially from the Americas and the Caribbean.
WHO:	Public Organizations: National, regional and local tourism promotions offices, CVB’s, hotel associations, etc. Private Companies: Hotel chains, individual hotels, incoming travel agencies, rent-a-cars, airlines, audiovisual companies, theme parks, restaurants, congress and exhibition centres, etc.
HOSTED BUYERS:
FROM:	Mostly from Europe and North America. Also from Mexico and Brazil.
WHO:	Decision making executives: Corporate incentive travel end-users, incentive houses, incentive travel agencies, event agencies, marketing companies, meeting planners, association executives and international congress organizers.
DETAILS:	Pre-scheduled agenda with exhibitors. Hosted with up to 3 hotel nights and funding for air transportation.

FAQ:

How does MITM Americas work?
MITM consist of one and half day interactive forum, where participants work through individual and pre-requested appointments. To select appointments, exhibitors receive 15 days before MITM commencement all hosted buyers profiles, together with an appointments request form. Also buyers receive the exhibitor’s profiles to request meetings. Following these requests, MITM schedules up to a maximum of 20 meetings, of 20 minutes each, per single or shared stand (up to 40 meetings per multiple stands). Also there’s free time for additional meetings, out of those pre-scheduled. After MITM, buyers and international journalists have the opportunity to experience sights or tourist services taking one of the post-tours offered by the venue and/or the exhibitors.

How is pre-scheduled appointments fulfilment guaranteed?
MITM refunds to buyers their registration fee –which includes air transportation, hotel accommodation, meals, etc- only if buyers complete all their scheduled appointments. To complement the meetings productivity, MITM schedules one welcome reception, one working lunch, one closing dinner and three coffee breaks, where exhibitors join buyers to conduct additional non-scheduled meetings and for further networking. With the same purpose, light entertainment, free drinks and snacks are allowed in the stands for one hour to attract buyers.

How are the buyers selected to participate in MITM?
To assure that hosted buyers are truly potential clients of the exhibitors, MITM carries out a careful selection and an approval procedure through an application form, which gives enough information as to determine the buyer potential, proving the veracity of the information given by the applicant. MITM turns down about 30% of received applications. This procedure, which is highly strict, limits the number of hosted buyers and therefore the number of exhibitors. MITM is a quality oriented trade show, minimizing the importance of quantity, as MITM is aware of the difficulty to obtain legitimate international MICE buyers in great numbers to come to any trade show.

Can exhibitors invite their potential clients to participate in MITM?
Yes, they can invite their own potential clients as hosted buyers free of cost, previous MITM approval. Once the application forms are approved, their transportation and hotel expenses will be paid by MITM, as specified at the buyer’s registration form.

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